On June 1, the women-only social club and coworking space The Wing shared an Instagram post that read “Black Lives Matter” in bold, yellow lettering. The graphic was a far cry from the millennial pink and muted tones that have defined The Wing’s aesthetic since it first opened in 2016, but the message, sent in solidarity with “protestors who are putting their voices and bodies on the line,” was more typical of The Wing, which regards itself as a progressive feminist space.\n
that read “Black Lives Matter” in bold, yellow lettering. The graphic was a far cry from the millennial pink and muted tones that have defined The Wing’s aesthetic since it first opened in 2016, but the message, sent in solidarity with “protestors who are putting their voices and bodies on the line,” was more typical of The Wing, which regards itself as a progressive feminist space.
Black women have built The Wing. They bus tables, make coffee, wash dishes, keep the space tidy, and pour wine for white women. And they’re expected to do it all while being quiet and invisible lest they chip away at The Wing’s pretty pink reputation as a women’s only paradise.
“It’s just really shocking that they promote all this stuff and they throw it in our faces that they give a fuck when they really don’t,” says Tahira Jarrett, who worked at The Wing from December 2017 until she quit in August 2018. Jarrett finally told her what was going on: She just had a miscarriage. The message she received from her manager, she says,
“I was taking a woman’s order, and we were having a conversation, and this lady comes and was like, ‘You guys are out of coffee,’” Edmondson says. “I’m like, okay, as soon as I’m done taking her order—there’s another pot on—I’ll gladly bring it out, just give me a second.”
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