Pixel Palmer did not set out to make a nice cat shirt. This is a hissing, gremlin looking white cat with its mouth wide open and its ears back, screaming "Have some hiss when you resist!" across a black background, who apparently has strong feelings about house cats and civil disobedience.
The black cat has been a symbol of labor strikes and anarchist movements since workers started painting angry cats on picket signs a hundred years ago. This one just picked up where that history left off, minus the subtlety, plus a little more attitude in the whiskers.
"Have some hiss when you resist!" reads like something scrawled on a protest sign five minutes before the march started. It is for the person who has been to more mutual aid drop offs than brunches this year. It is for the person who still shows up to city council meetings even when nobody claps. It is for anyone who has ever hissed at a landlord, a cop, a group chat full of bad opinions, or a guy at a bar who would not take the hint.
Cats hiss because something crossed a line. That is basically the whole thesis of Strange Gang as a brand. Somebody crossed a line, so here is a shirt about it. Wear it to a rally, wear it to a coffee shop where you are quietly radicalizing your barista, wear it under a flannel while you argue with your uncle at Thanksgiving. This tee does not care where you wear it, it just wants you to be a little more feral than you were yesterday.
Grab it for yourself, grab it for the friend who organizes everything and never asks for credit, grab it as a gift for whoever taught you that being polite and being compliant are not the same thing. It doubles as a souvenir from whatever fight you are currently in the middle of, the kind you will want proof you survived.
Strange Gang does not do subtle. Neither does this cat.
Hiss first. Sort out the rest later.
