Some shirts are just shirts. This one has a job.

NYC Rebel Alliance is an anti-fascist protest design for the New Yorker who wants what they wear to reflect what they actually believe. Not as a statement. As a fact. The rebel alliance arc in black sits across the chest, a gray pigeon rising through it with wings open, red eye forward. Graphic. Deliberate. Clear from across a picket line or a classroom or a packed subway platform.

The adult tee runs slightly slim, the way a protest shirt should when you want it to read clearly on a body in motion. The long sleeve is regular fit for the longer days, the ones that start at a rally in Corona and end somewhere in Williamsburg after dark. The kids tee is regular fit too, because the next generation of New Yorkers is already paying attention.

This is for the Columbia student who chose this city because it felt like somewhere things still happen. For the kid in Parkchester who grew up watching her parents show up for their neighbors and is now doing it herself. For the CCNY grad who stayed in Washington Heights because leaving never made sense when the community needed people to stay.

For the Mets fan who goes to the game and goes to the march, sometimes the same weekend. For the woman from Elmhurst who has been organizing quietly for three years and wants something that says so without explaining it to anyone.

The long sleeve is for the October march when the weather breaks and the crowd is larger than anyone expected. The kids tee is for the New Yorker raising the next one right, in this city, during this moment, with everything that means.

Black. Heather gray. White. Three colors, one design that does not change its meaning depending on which one you pick.

This is a genuine gift for the most politically alive person in your life. Or hold onto it as a souvenir of where you stood, right now, in a city that is deciding in real time who it is going to be.

Strange Gang makes things for weirdos who give a damn. This shirt is one of those things.