Some amusing graffiti I found in an alley on my walk home the other day. Worth wasting a Polaroid on, I thought.

Much lighter than my last post, don’t you think?

For you locals, this guy is located on the south side of the alley between Dubuque & Linn Streets. Like, right around the corner from Wells Fargo on the Ped Mall.

In general, graffiti in Iowa City is usually lacking in imagination or uniqueness. It used to be better, but overall there’s been a dirth of good or amusing or cool images/slogans around town. But once in awhile I’ll see something that catches my eye, or that makes me think. This little note caught my eye on my way home from work this afternoon. One of the great things about walking or biking everywhere is that you are going slow enough that when you DO come across good graffiti, you notice it and can stop to appreciate.

I’m not sure if this little reminder is referencing a specific incident or not. But if you look closely, you’ll see the word iowa over the “city” in complicity. There was an incident recently wherein a white man verbally assaulted a woman of color in a parking lot, and she wrote an OP-ED about the incident (which I’m not linking to b/c the online version of our local paper sucks and makes you pay for the archives), wherein she stated that several people witnessed the assault and kept on walking, whether out of fear or indifference is left to speculation.

*the title quote is by the incredible Audre Lorde