The Oscar-winning actress Mo’Nique once warned that when you do the clownery, the clown comes back to bite. For Portland, Oregon, and its particularly twee brand of clownery, it’s Carla Rossi, the city’s premier drag clown, who bares her teeth. With razor-sharp cultural commentary on everything from the gentrification of Portland’s gay neighborhoods to white caricatures of Indigenous culture, Rossi draws laughter out of, and fires criticism toward, Portland’s prominent and powerful.
Rossi, whose name comes from Carlo Rossi, the jug of cheap wine that is beloved by art students, is the brainchild and alter ego of multidisciplinary artist Anthony Hudson, a two-spirit Native Oregonian via the Confederated
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