She tells Yahoo Style that after the presidential election earlier this week, she saw a friend who lives in the United Kingdom post on Facebook asking if anyone in the United States had started wearing and sharing safety pins yet, as they had in Britain after Brexit. With reports of hate crimes and KKK rallies, many feel that publicly identifying themselves as an ally against such violence is crucial.Īnsley Husack of Marietta, Ga., is one woman trying to spread the word. 8, to the office of the presidency, many in the United States are now doing the same and encouraging others to spread the word, bringing this repudiation of rhetoric targeting religious and racial minorities across the pond. Those who did not share these sentiments started wearing safety pins on their clothing as a sign of solidarity with immigrants and minorities - and a way to visually signal to others that they were, physically, not a threat.įollowing the election of Republican nominee Donald J. The Brexit vote was widely thought of throughout Europe as an anti-immigration and anti-minority movement, and hate crimes against people of color spiked in the days following the vote.

Forget wearing your heart, figuratively, on your sleeve when you can wear a safety pin, literally, on your shirt.Īfter the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union this summer - or what is referred to colloquially as Brexit - many opposed to the vote there started wearing safety pins on their clothing.

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