Cocks Not Glocks

Cocks Not Glocks is a college student movement that protested campus open carry laws, largely by distributing dildos to students to display on their backpacks.^[1] It was originally founded at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016,^[2] following the passage of Texas law that allowed for open carry on college campuses, before then spreading to the University of Wisconsin—Madison.^[3]

Origins

The movement grew out of a 2016 half-joking Facebook post by Jessica Jin,^[4] a University of Texas Austin student who argued that there were more regulations over sex toys in the college classroom than guns.^[5][6] From the initial post, the "Cocks not Glocks" mantra spiraled into a legitimate though satirical^[7] movement, drawing thousands of participants even though Jin herself did not have a history of campus organizing.^[4]

While the Texas law was originally passed in 2015, it didn't take effect August 1, 2016 and upon returning to campus after summer break, students distributed more than 4,500 dildos to students.^[8]

Slogans

Among the slogans used in the protests were "You're packin' heat, I'm packin' meat" and "Take It and Come."^[2]