{"id":1788,"date":"2018-09-06T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovepeacenslander.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2018-09-06T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:32:12","slug":"afro-punk-editor-in-chief-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovepeacenslander.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/afro-punk-editor-in-chief-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRO PUNK EDITOR IN CHIEF RESIGNS…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Afro Punk’s longtime editor-in-chief Lou Constant-Desportes used his Facebook platform to announce his resignation. In a series of\u00a0 Facebook posts Constant-Desportes writes that he<\/p>\n

\u201cexperienced and witnessed so many lies, gaslighting, disrespect, victim-blaming, exploitation,\u201d as well as \u201coverworked, undervalued and underpaid staff being kept in precarious situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cthe philosophy and actions of some of the people who run the company are so at odds with the values that they claim to stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cthey were using radical imagery, slogans and intersectional mottos to market their events. Performative activism offered to sponsors as ways to promote their products. Elitism under the guise of \u2018Black excellence.\u2019”<\/p>\n

\u201cwhen the editorial content was too \u2018radical\u2019 or unapologetic for their taste, we were asked to tone it down, our independence was compromised.”<\/p>\n

Constant-Desportes went on to write that Afropunk is \u201ctrying to make [him] sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for \u2018hush money,\u2018\u201d which he wrote prompted him to share the narrative first.<\/p>\n

Check out the full statement:<\/p>\n