Jo MaMa“I’d been involved in activism for almost my whole life, but I was especially called to action at that time,” they said. “I didn’t know what to do.
I felt very unwelcome and trapped in my own city, thoroughly surrounded by hundreds of police officers and none of my peers.”That feeling of alienation galvanized Jo, known out of drag as Joe Lewis, to find a Black Lives Matter march to attend the next day.
This time, though, they went in drag.“Everyone was telling me not to,” they said. “I was like, ‘No, I want them to see me. And if it’s gonna make me a target, then good, because I’m down to fight.
Let’s do this.’”So they took to the street in a neon green pantsuit and curly brown wig. Posting a picture on social media drew even more.