It had started at Lughnasadh , the Pagan Harvest festival. Our coven decided we could do the rites sky-clad if we so wished to show our acceptance of our own bodies. It quickly became a point of pride that we should all be naked to show our commitment to the mother goddess or our coven or the trees or something. I'm not really clear as to why anyone thought all of us getting naked on campus was a good idea in the first place. Others felt that as it was a female-only campus, with no men there to act creepy, it would be a great experience in body acceptance.
The campus feminists decided they would hold a protest against us. Something about the separation of church and state should prevent us having a religious festival on or near campus.
Everything the campus feminists did tended to have a level of scope creep that would destroy most clubs. Plus, the group was fractured by social cliques with many of the women who ran the group acting like queen bees who would not and could not get along with the other queen bees who also ran the group.
Within days their plan been changed, modified, re-planned, then over-planned with such continuous and uncontrolled growth in the protest's scope that it was now a naked protest against us as well as naked counter protest against their own naked protest. They had managed to involve the lesbian voter alliance, the University Wiccan Council, D.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y, the union of campus sororities, the Jewish women's gunowner club, the Occult club, the society of Mages, and I was not sure how many other.
The day of the Harvest festival a large number of women had taken peyote, mescaline and mushrooms for the religious ceremony, to honor the goddess and nature, or because they liked to get blitzed on psychedelics. Which, in retrospect, might not have been the best way for both sides to start their protest.
The event had quickly spiraled out of control, everyone screaming at each other, then shoving and hair pulling. I had a tiny militant lesbian with a bright red mohawk and a nose ring jump on my back and attempt to wrestle me to the ground. She could not have weighted more than 80 pounds and was no more than 5 foot tall. I knew she was a militant lesbian as she had the words 'militant lesbian' written on her bare chest in lipstick.
My roommate was able to pull the militant lesbian off me around the time the fire department showed up to break up the riot and put out all the fires.