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Send in the clowns: the new guard of activists combating the right
A growing cohort of performers ‘clown’ as a means to innovate traditional protest and create social change On a humid morning on 15 July, Tillie the Clown, a Brooklyn-based drag performer whose real name is Taylor Horne, was waiting to be let inside a New York City council meeting. Horne had started getting into character at 5am, for a makeup and clown-costuming process that would take two hours. It would be another 10 hours before Horne was allowed to address the city council about the passing…
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