Cocks Not Glocks was a satirical protest movement that began in 2015 at the University of Texas at Austin. It emerged in response to legislation allowing licensed individuals to carry concealed firearms on campus. Organized by alumna 📝Jessica Jin, the campaign distributed large, brightly colored sex toys for students to openly carry, highlighting what the organizers described as the absurdity of prohibiting “obscene” objects while normalizing weapons in educational spaces. The effort used humor, shock value, and exaggeration to draw attention to issues of campus safety, free expression, and the cultural contradictions between laws regulating sex and violence. Cocks Not Glocks influenced discourse on gun violence prevention policy and demonstrated how grassroots satire can scale into wider cultural and political relevance.

The 📝Artful Advocacy of Cocks Not Glocks became a cultural movement that resulted in global headlines two years in a row, an award-winning documentary short that premiered at 📝SXSW, meddling in a lot of national gun violence prevention policy talks in DC, and more. Founder, Jessica Jin, got doxxed by a white supremacist and fled to 📝San Francisco, CA where I met one of the founders of Zinc, and later 📝Clay.

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• 🏷️#jessica-jin (See: 📝Jessica Jin)