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PUPS: “EVERY MONTH IS PRIDE MONTH!”
Tigger and Violet swap clothes, reiterate their support for trans and gender diverse community at time of global rollback of queer rights
June may be over, but pride is 365.
That’s the message Tigger and Violet communicated today as they stepped out for their morning walk wearing one another’s winter coats, in what LGBTI+ groups and community members are calling a powerful public display of allyship.
Tigger was spotted in Violet’s starred patent red, with cow print collar, while Violet donned Tigger’s camo print and faux-sheep skin. Early social media reactions suggested that Violet was in fact with her gay intern Tiggawr, due to the appearance of a ‘crop top’. However, it has since been verified that Tigger merely has a longer torso than the coat’s original, skinnier owner.
Tigger the Dog told Hagazine that he came up with the idea to ‘cross dress’ with his sister after reading Judith Butler’s 1990 post-structuralist classic Gender Trouble, which posits that gender is a construct, performed through conventions such as dress. “The rainbow community is my friend,” says the Dog. “Kiss kiss!”
Tigger, who is a sad dog, has expressed particular concern about anti-trans rhetoric being disingenuously framed as a feminist position, and hopes this morning’s protest will remind Victorians of pride’s roots in radical action, particularly given a state election is to be held at the end of 2026.
The English staffies’ walk was largely on-lead, though they were allowed to run free, albeit under supervision, on Port Melbourne Beach. “It’s a metaphor for how pride frees us all, or whatever,” says Violet, who enjoyed an oceanside game of catch with a stick.
Tigger and Violet’s walk concluded at the Avenue Bookstore, where Tigger ordered a copy of Stag Party, US author Torey Peters’ follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel Detransition, Baby. Violet went home empty-handed, with the little lady confirming in a written statement that she does not read, as she is “not a nerd Ha Ha Ha”.