Addendum.

When the one (young) (flighty) (Afro-Brazilian) (female) graduate student was telling me that about Charlie Kirk, it was at this one impromptu late-night drinking party that a lot of local (Brazilians) put on, where they all showed up at a bar with a nice patio to drink, in honor of Jair Bosonaro’s 27-year prison sentence.

And, they all wore red in honor of the major political party opposite Bolsonaro, including the one (gay) (Brazilian) (STEM) post-doc who I know from around town, who had dug out some bright red shirt with a giant stylized face of Paolo Freire (sp.?) and a big cursive (Portuguese) quote about the necessity of human dreaming.

So, I ended up buying them all a round of tequila shots, and after we all finished, I clapped my hands together authoritatively and was like, “Okay, okay, now it’s time for 26 more, we need to do 27!!!!!!”.

The one (young) (flighty) (Afro-Brazilian) (female) graduate student was also saying that a lot of enrollees in her popular music class are like kids who’ve grown up listening to hip-hop, and they decide to take it because they need to fulfill a distribution requirement.

“So, they’re like, ‘I’m intersectional, because I’m engineering, but I also have a chem minor’?”, I was like.

“Yes, pretty much!” she was like, with a small laugh.