'My Body My Choice' isn't your typical cake topper, but Hive Bakery in Flower Mound isn't your typical bakery. While some are spewing hate others are eating cake.
A photo of this cake on the Hive Bakery's Facebook page created a slew of positive and negative feedback.It started with a sticker. About four years ago, baker Haley Popp slapped a sticker on the front of her shop that declared she and her team affirm LGBTQ rights.Many residents of Flower Mound, a suburb of about 80,000 northwest Dallas where Popp’s Hive Bakery is based, were not happy.
“When COVID hit and we were mask-mandating in the store, people would come here and yell stuff like, ‘It's my fucking right; I don't have to wear this shit in your store,’” Popp says.Following the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that signals the court will overturn abortion rights, Popp used the Hive Bakery social media accounts to post a picture of a cake with the words “My Body, My Choice” etched in icing.
“I think what put this over the top this time is obviously abortion is a hot-button issue, and we live in a very Trumper voter area, so they've been emboldened to spew hate,” she says. “Anytime there's anything of note that's going on in the world, I want to speak about it — especially to the people in my town,” she says. “I remember thinking, ‘There have to be more people like me here. I can't be the only one.’”In the last week, the Hive faithful have rallied around the bakery with words of encouragement and blockbuster sales. In fact, on the Saturday morning after the Supreme Court leak, the line of customers stretched out the door and into the parking lot.
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