photo by John Robinson
From a press release:
“On the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Republic Restoratives Distillery, a women-owned, LGBTQ-owned distillery in Washington, DC, has announced that it will donate proceeds from the sale of its brand-new Dissent Gin – inspired by Ruth Bader Ginsberg – to the National Network of Abortion Funds, which provides money to community and indigenous organizations to provide funding, travel, lodging to pregnant people in dire need of abortion care.
Republic Restoratives has been loud and proud about its values and politics since its inception in 2016. Dissent Gin joins a family of spirits including Civic Vodka (a nod to civic participation); Madam whiskey (inspired by Vice President Kamala Harris); and Purpose Rye (a reminder of the necessary connection between values and action). The company’s earliest hit offering was Rodham Rye, named for former senator and one-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Influenced by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Brooklyn upbringing, gin master and legendary bartender Nicole Hassoun lent her expertise to help create an extraordinary, smoke-infused savory gin, with unique notes of pepper, allspice, bay leaves, ginger, lemon, mandarin orange and hickory smoke. When it came time to name the gin, the choice was obvious: Dissent.
To design the Dissent label, Republic Restoratives chose D.C. artist Rose Jaffe – best known for her two-story mural of RGB and work on the famous Black Lives Matter Plaza. Jaffe’s brightly-colored depiction of women acknowledges reproductive justice through its symbolism of togetherness, resistance and power.
“We are proud to be a small, woman-owned and LGBTQ operated American business with a voice,” says Republic Restoratives Distillery’ co-founder and CEO, Pia Carusone.
“We had to do something. We knew it was coming. We felt it in our bones. All we could think was what would Ruth Bater Ginsburg do? How would her dissent read? And how can we honor the woman who made dissent an act of revolution?
Millions of Americans live in communities where safe and legal abortions were just banned. The war on women is raging but we won’t be silent. Like RBG, we dissent and we’re going to fucking fight.”
Dissent Gin is available for $79 with proceeds benefiting the National Network of Abortion Funds.”