Wife Power!;-)
Send in the clowns!
The spirit of the mythic Trickster is alive and well in Knoxville, Tennessee, where clowns are using contrariness and laughter to combat racism.
In an article on the Asheville Indymedia website (via Digsby), Chris Irwin tells a hilarious story of a Nazi/KKK hate rally foiled by the Anti-Racist Action group's clown brigade. As Irwin describes the event:
“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted. “White flour?” the clowns yelled back, running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour.”
“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more. “White flowers?” the clowns cheered as they threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.
“White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message. “Ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled, “tight shower!” and held a solar shower in the air. They all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.
At this point several of the Nazi and Klan members began clutching their hearts as if they were about to have heart attacks....One last time they screamed “White Power!”
The clown women thought they finally understood what the Klan was trying to say. “Ohhhhh,” the women clowns said. “Now we understand…WIFE POWER!” They lifted the letters up in the air, grabbed the nearest male clowns and lifted them in their arms and ran about merrily chanting “WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER!”
(Read the full text of Irwin's wonderful story here.)
I found this lovely tale on the Endicott Studio Blog
http://www.endicottstudio.typepad.com/
which is a wonderful inspiring and beautiful site and if you have never read it, you should, at least once;-)
Eris really is the most amazing Goddess and her ways are more powerful than it might at first seem;-) I really like the idea of speaking humor to power. Just when I hit serious despair, she sends me the key to the door out....
(there was a study once that discovered that the thing women msot fear about MEN is that men might *beat them to DEATH* and taht the thing men most fear about WOMEN is that women might *LAUGH at them" the study was written about in my womens studies text t illustrat an obvious power differential-but it inadvertently also ilustrates the one of the ways that differential can be surmounted-as so well demonstrated by the wife powered clowns above;-)
ok just had to share that now I am off to play with my nebulizer somemore til I can get air;-)
If anyone here knows how it is possible to post a hosted image on a comment on myspace *without* myspace cutting the damn code apart and refusing to show the picture-PLEASE reply and tell me! I'm going to email them and ask but no idea how that will work out:-/
The spirit of the mythic Trickster is alive and well in Knoxville, Tennessee, where clowns are using contrariness and laughter to combat racism.
In an article on the Asheville Indymedia website (via Digsby), Chris Irwin tells a hilarious story of a Nazi/KKK hate rally foiled by the Anti-Racist Action group's clown brigade. As Irwin describes the event:
“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted. “White flour?” the clowns yelled back, running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour.”
“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more. “White flowers?” the clowns cheered as they threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.
“White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message. “Ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled, “tight shower!” and held a solar shower in the air. They all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.
At this point several of the Nazi and Klan members began clutching their hearts as if they were about to have heart attacks....One last time they screamed “White Power!”
The clown women thought they finally understood what the Klan was trying to say. “Ohhhhh,” the women clowns said. “Now we understand…WIFE POWER!” They lifted the letters up in the air, grabbed the nearest male clowns and lifted them in their arms and ran about merrily chanting “WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER!”
(Read the full text of Irwin's wonderful story here.)
I found this lovely tale on the Endicott Studio Blog
http://www.endicottstudio.typepad.com/
which is a wonderful inspiring and beautiful site and if you have never read it, you should, at least once;-)
Eris really is the most amazing Goddess and her ways are more powerful than it might at first seem;-) I really like the idea of speaking humor to power. Just when I hit serious despair, she sends me the key to the door out....
(there was a study once that discovered that the thing women msot fear about MEN is that men might *beat them to DEATH* and taht the thing men most fear about WOMEN is that women might *LAUGH at them" the study was written about in my womens studies text t illustrat an obvious power differential-but it inadvertently also ilustrates the one of the ways that differential can be surmounted-as so well demonstrated by the wife powered clowns above;-)
ok just had to share that now I am off to play with my nebulizer somemore til I can get air;-)
If anyone here knows how it is possible to post a hosted image on a comment on myspace *without* myspace cutting the damn code apart and refusing to show the picture-PLEASE reply and tell me! I'm going to email them and ask but no idea how that will work out:-/