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Inside a Juggalo Motel PartyWhen Insane Clown Posse performs their 1994 classic "Chicken Huntin'," a song about killing a racist hillbilly, they throw scarecrows into the crowd for the Juggalos to rip to shreds. Saturday night, at their headlining performance at the 17th annual Gathering of the Juggalos, they added an especially relevant prop to the tradition. After rapping lyrics like "To the hillbilly, stick my barrel in his eye / Boomshacka boomshacka, hair jumps in the sky," they threw a scarecrow draped in the Confederate Flag into the crowd and encouraged the Juggalos to rip it apart.
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"[They're] the most beautiful women on the planet," Paul explained to me over a bottle of Faygo at this weekend's Gathering. "There's nothing like the family that you choose."Paul simultaneously resembles both a 1960s hippie feminist and a Juggalette. She wears wraps around her head. Walking around the Gathering, you'll see her in a wife-beater, but at night she wears long robes while working as a tarot reader in the Gathering's Bizzaro World tent."We don't turn people away [at the tarot tent]," Paul said. "It's important shit. We're like the camp counselors."
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Paul clearly loves the Juggalos, but in 2013, she realized her family needed to grow up in some departments. The Gathering's annual Ms. Juggalette pageant devolved from a celebration of women's talents to an event focused on their bodies. Porn legend Ron Jeremy had started hosting the pageant, and according to Paul and several other Juggalos I spoke to this weekend, he dismissed contestants who refused to perform sexual acts on stage, like putting Faygo bottles in their vaginas."It's dangerous to [let outsiders in]," Paul said about Jeremy. "In the Juggalo world, there are a lot less snakes."Like other feminists in the past ten years, Paul took to the internet to make her community better for her fellow girls. On FaygoLuvers.net, a popular Insane Clown Posse fansite, she wrote a post criticizing the pageant's treatment of women. She posted a controversial call to action that took on the Juggalo tradition of yelling "Show us your tiiiiiiiitttttts!""I hear you," Paul wrote. "Ahahaha. Ha. It's funny. But right now, at this point… just this one moment in time… you can shut the fuck up and get out the way.""Jugalettes are super smart and super intelligent and super loving. They will give you their shirts off their back—and show their titties." —Rachel Paul
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