Alia MacKenzie Credit: Taylor Dobbs
Alia MacKenzie stood outside the Vermont Statehouse in a bright red sun hat Wednesday morning holding a sign that read “Anal Sex” in large lettering. She posed for photos snapped by passing lobbyists and didn’t seem to mind questions about the poster.

“It’s a celebration of the First Amendment, which covers freedom of speech,” she said.

MacKenzie was in Concord, N.H., Tuesday and Albany, N.Y. before that. Her one-woman journey through state capitals follows days of picketing outside of the White House in Washington, D.C., in April.

“I’m going to go on a little tour,” she said. “A free speech party.”

The performance artist recently moved away from Washington State and said the tour is also an effort to find a new place to live.

The tour is “a lot of things,” she said. “It’s turned into sex education, a study on implicit bias, just seeing what people’s reactions were. What are they thinking when they see the sign? You can tell.”

MacKenzie said the most memorable interaction of the tour was “getting shoved by some Catholic guy in front of the White House,” or perhaps getting hit with an umbrella by a different man.

“Yesterday, somebody told me in Concord that I should be shot,” MacKenzie said. Even so, she said New Hampshire seems like a nice place to live.

As passersby continued to gawk at the sign, MacKenzie clarified that it isn’t necessarily advocating for any particular sexual activity.

“It’s a First Amendment thing,” she said, “but I’m transgender and I don’t have a problem with anal sex.”

The point of the demonstration, MacKenzie said, is to hold a sign that says “anal sex” on it because she can — and to have fun in the process. She said in that regard, the free speech party is going well.

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14 replies on “Montpeculiar: A Message of ‘Anal Sex’ in Front of the Statehouse”

  4. I saw the sign and it opened up my mind, I saw the sign: “The Tightest Hole Can Lead To The Soul”!

  7. “Performance Artist”: someone who craves attention at a neurotic insecure level and will do anything to get either positive or negative attention. Example: Donald Trump.

    Is it “performance” if no one is really watching?

  10. They say it takes all kinds to make the world go round. Yes we are supposed to have freedom of speech, just maybe this guy or woman could have thought of a better sign.. what about the kids who read it??? Freedom of Speech is great but do think some good thoughts into it would be better..

  11. “I wonder if this is the same Alia that posted a GoFundMe campaign for $9m for living expenses while she travels the world looking for a new home? “

    It is. A quick read of it demonstrates that she is mentally ill – which, btw, has nothing whatever to do with her being transgender. She appears to suffer from a paranoia condition; she thinks she was the “inspiration” for the Malaysian Air crash, for example, and thinks the government and corporations are causing environmental disasters because of her. I wouldn’t give her money, but I feel for her. It must be hard to be trapped in your terrifying fantasies that way.

  13. A quick reminder that all trans people are brave and beautiful, any cis person on this site passing any judgement is a bigot and rife with privilege.

  14. The sign just shows the proper word for a particular sexual act, nothing obscene here. I just would walk by on my merry way.

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