Pink Frog is Back
🎵Big bad woman - April 3 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
Words and music by Jane A. Robinson. from This Heavy Heart
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🎵We shall overcome – Portland - Saturday, March 28, 2026 No Kings III part 3
Sung at Minneapolis No Kings III event by Borealis, a chamber ensemble from Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus
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🎵Zero Game - Mar 21 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
by Leslie Fish
Find more of Leslie Fish's music and her songbook at Prometheus Music (prometheus-music.com)
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🎵All Life is an Echo - Mar 8 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
Clif Flynt, Bill Roper, Mary Ellen Wessels
From Conchord II:the Joy of Singing
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🎵Frogs of Portland - Mar 1 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
Song by Stone's Prairie Riot
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🎵Go on Home, ICE Agents – Feb 26 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
Song From Canadian Dominion
Full song at on YouTube youtu.be/deHzVn445e8?...
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🎵Paper Ballet – Feb 25 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
From a home recording I made of Julia Ecklar (the Ohio tape) in 1983.
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🎵 Vote Him Away (The Liar Tweets Tonight) – Feb 24 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
by Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” words and music by Solomon Linda. Parody lyrics by Ede Morris, Roy Zimmerman, Melanie Harby.
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🎵 Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron – Feb 19 2026 - Portland ICE Facility
by The Royal Guardsmen
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A collage of different stills from Amanda Nicole's "Pretty and Petty" (2023): originally featured in "Amazons as Whores" (2025): https://nicksmovieinsights.com/2026/02/theyre-making-the-frogs-gay-or-a-sex-workers-musings-on-tactical-frivolity-to-combat-racism-and-other-bigotries.html
Several monster-fucker drawings cited in "Frogs Gay!" as taken from my book series: of Cuwu as Orange Socks, flanked by Jason Voorhees (left); and Jericho fucking the Creature from the Black Lagoon (right)
A drawing of Cara Day as Gozer from Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), featured in my 2023 essay, "Cornholing the Corn Lady—Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Empire" (2024): https://vanderwaardart.com/2025/04/book-sample-sample-essay-and-paid-labor
![Think of things in ecological terms, akin to a Trojan animal or Aesopian fable (the former engineered by Athena, aka the Gorgon as Creed argues and one that, originally a rape victim, becomes a survivor-avenger to humanize and infiltrate the state before castrating it; re: me vis-à-vis Elizabeth Hadley; see: "Medusa Misunderstood" and "Always a Victim," 2025). Employed by the state, working-class traitors redeploy as cuckoos—an invasive species to routinely prey upon local "wildlife" by imitating them. In punching clowns to try and look tough, however, cops fail to convince anyone; they instead appear stupid, cruel and ridiculous, suitably unable to blend in or dominate anyone despite being capable of great lies and harm; e.g., Border Patrol targeting Marimar Martinez in bad faith, the usual Nazi goons "crying wolf in sheep's clothing"; i.e., paradoxically as predators acting like prey in ways that clowns and their frivolity historically expose: in ways that people—as animals—categorically recognize and respond to, "in kind" (e.g., the Maori haka, below).
(exhibit 1: Source: top, bottom. The haka isn't just for football matches; it's a weapon, specifically an Indigenous tool of protest; i.e., Indigenous forms alongside Western ones on colonized land, calling for land back [therefore labor and bodies back] in so many ways that avoid white saviors, Indians and moderacy ["peace is a white man's word"]. You see similar hyphenations in Japanese kabuki, Western theatre/court jesters, Irish folktales, etc: the jester's privilege but also frog-like wares abjecting capital's "curse" back onto itself. "This is our land, Pākehā!" and you don't kill home rule with kindness; you terrify it.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreifwhtsvfny3ouxlkv6led4ngwmf5ja3nmrb2ozzerdua3jvcldx4m)
Think of things in ecological terms, akin to a Trojan animal or Aesopian fable (the former engineered by Athena, aka the Gorgon as Creed argues and one that, originally a rape victim, becomes a survivor-avenger to humanize and infiltrate the state before castrating it; re: me vis-à-vis Elizabeth Hadley; see: "Medusa Misunderstood" and "Always a Victim," 2025). Employed by the state, working-class traitors redeploy as cuckoos—an invasive species to routinely prey upon local "wildlife" by imitating them. In punching clowns to try and look tough, however, cops fail to convince anyone; they instead appear stupid, cruel and ridiculous, suitably unable to blend in or dominate anyone despite being capable of great lies and harm; e.g., Border Patrol targeting Marimar Martinez in bad faith, the usual Nazi goons "crying wolf in sheep's clothing"; i.e., paradoxically as predators acting like prey in ways that clowns and their frivolity historically expose: in ways that people—as animals—categorically recognize and respond to, "in kind" (e.g., the Maori haka, below). (exhibit 1: Source: top, bottom. The haka isn't just for football matches; it's a weapon, specifically an Indigenous tool of protest; i.e., Indigenous forms alongside Western ones on colonized land, calling for land back [therefore labor and bodies back] in so many ways that avoid white saviors, Indians and moderacy ["peace is a white man's word"]. You see similar hyphenations in Japanese kabuki, Western theatre/court jesters, Irish folktales, etc: the jester's privilege but also frog-like wares abjecting capital's "curse" back onto itself. "This is our land, Pākehā!" and you don't kill home rule with kindness; you terrify it.)
Some of the exhibit images, and another exhibit on the #Maori #haka as a form of protest akin to #tacticalfrivolity. 2/3
The latest essay of mine on #statevampirism, this one offers an antidote— #TacticalFrivolity (namely #frogs and sex workers combating #racism, #fatphobia, and other bigotries!
nicksmovieinsights.com/2026/02/they... 1/2
#SexWorkIsWork #fascism
Portland, I love you.
Frogs, axolotls, and unicorns have been seen here in Boston, surely in part under your influence.
Thank you!!
#iceout #resist #tacticalfrivolity
I've been saying "Trumpublicans" for a while now. But lately I just say "Fascists". Fewer syllables, factual and clearer meaning.
#TrumpLies
#RepublicansLie
#RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
#FightFascism
#FightOligarchy
#ResistTump
#NoKings
#TacticalFrivolity
Come for the #resistance, laugh from the #tacticalfrivolity, stay for the #community! 💜
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#TacticalFrivolity #comedy #protest #humor #clown #activism #resist #skull #badge #patch
#mischief #dissent #Antifa #absurdity #Rebel #parody #satirical #subversive #witty
Employing satire and laughter in protests exposes authority’s fragility, and transforms dissent into participatory theater. The clown horn is mightier than the sword!
FASCISMO ACTIONE FACETA RESISTITE
(RESIST FASCISM WITH FACETIOUS ACTION)
#TacticalFrivolity #humor #activism #skull #badge #patch
Tactical Frivolity Brigade pin. Skull with clown hair and red clown nose. Latin text says “Fascismum Actione Faceta Resistite” which means “Resist Fascism with Facetious Action.”
Tactical Frivolity Brigade shirt. Skull with clown hair and red clown nose. Latin text says “Fascismum Actione Faceta Resistite” which means “Resist Fascism with Facetious Action.”
Tactical Frivolity Brigade mousepad. Skull with clown hair and red clown nose. Latin text says “Fascismum Actione Faceta Resistite” which means “Resist Fascism with Facetious Action.”
Tactical Frivolity is one of the world’s oldest types of resistance. From jesters needling medieval kings to people dressed in inflatable costumes, people have long realized that humor disarms while anger escalates.
#TacticalFrivolity #comedy #protest #humor #clown #activism #resist #skull
What’s tactical frivolity? The aim isn’t to be silly for silliness’s sake—it’s to reframe the narrative, reduce fear, draw attention, and shift power back to the people.
Learn more here: buff.ly/86Rwg5Z
#NoKings #TacticalFrivolity #Protest
That’s the power of tactical frivolity: it confuses the oppressor, delights the onlookers, and breaks the spell of fear. Authoritarians feed on obedience and outrage. Laughter is the one weapon they can’t confiscate.
#Laughtivism #TacticalFrivolity #NoKings #Resist #DemocracyMatters #Protest #Joy
Lawyer @leejamiller.bsky.social talks about using humour to fight fascism. She looks at historical movements & present day #activism, what works & what's missing.
#TacticalFrivolity #PortlandFrogs #NoKings
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"Tactical frivolity" is my new favorite phrase...
This regime wants - craves - a violent reaction. Let's keep disappointing them!
#MakeLoveNotWar
#PracefulProtest
#TacticalFrivolity
#NoKings
#Resist
#Ahimsa
A protestor at #nokings in #minneapolis dressed as #captainamerica riding on a bicycle adorned with American flags. The character in the comic stepped down from his position when the American government acted in ways he found unjust.
#tacticalfrivolity #resist #trump
#TacticalFrivolity.
Such a happy phrase.
#Portland, #Oregon, #PDX, #FreeSpeech, #DueProcess, #Protest, #Activism, #AbolishICE, #TacticalFrivolity, #RollerSkating, #RollerDisco, #Peace, #Love, #Hope
