New York does not take seasons off.
The marches happen in October wind and February cold and the kind of gray November that settles over the boroughs and does not lift for weeks. The organizing meetings happen year-round. The mutual aid runs do not check the forecast. The people doing the work need something to wear through all of it.
The NYC Rebel Alliance hoodie and crewneck are anti-fascist protest designs for exactly that person. Midweight, regular fit, made to be put on and worn into the ground across every month this city throws at you.
The rebel alliance arc sits large across the chest in both styles, a gray pigeon rising through it with wings fully open. The distressed finish gives the print the look of something that has already been somewhere. Because the people wearing it have.
The hoodie is for the long days. The ones that start at an immigrant rights rally in Jackson Heights and end at a kitchen table in Inwood going over know-your-rights materials with whoever shows up. Kangaroo pocket. Drawstring. Ready to go.
The crewneck is for the classroom at The New School where someone is teaching a course on community organizing and every student already knows why this design exists. For the Baruch College study session that turns into a three-hour conversation about what is actually happening to this city's immigrant communities. For the evening at the Bronx community center where the chairs are folded metal and the work is real.
For the Rangers fan who wears the team jersey on game nights and this on every other night because both represent something he refuses to give up on. For the woman in Ridgewood who has been part of the same mutual aid network for two years and layers this over everything from September through April.
Black. Heather gray. White. Every color works on a body that is already in motion.
This is a genuine gift for the New Yorker who has earned something to keep them warm while they keep showing up. Or hold onto it as a souvenir of this chapter of the city's history, the one where people decided what they were actually made of.
Strange Gang makes things for weirdos who give a damn. These are two of those things.
