The Hill: Protesters Are Bombarding ICE Officers With Sex Toys To Confront The Absurdity Of The Moment
This is all news to me and I like to think that I follow immigration closely. Tracey Anne Duncan for the Hill reports on some creative ways of protesting the many immigration enforcement activities of President Trump's administration:
"Someone left hundreds of a certain phallic adult toy at an ICE facility in Portland in April. Rumor has it that they called it `Operation Dildo Blitz.' . . . This is where we are. This is also, it turns out, exactly where we need to be. . . . Tactical frivolity — using humor and absurdity to confront political injustice — is having a moment. We’ve seen the protesters in inflatable frog costumes and dinosaur suits. And then there was the dildo blitz, an action that went national. There were also other sex-toy-based events in April at facilities in Los Angeles; Broadview, Illinois; Washington, D.C., and other cities.
On the more poignant end of the absurdity spectrum, in February, a violinist played the `Schindler’s List' soundtrack outside an ICE building in Portland, Oregon, while agents looked down from above. History is being written in real time, and some of it is extremely clever."
The author of the story seemed to having some fun herself. She wrote: "Audrey, a queer investigative journalist and documentarian who asked not to reveal her last name for safety, has been living nomadically for almost four years and has been a witness to kidnappings, beatings and arrests. She was also there to document the dildos."
