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“We kind of know everyone we get feathers from at this point,” says Cohen. “We get a lot of feathers from the Maspeth Bird Sanctuary. Then there’s Susan Rose, who runs a peacock farm in Oregon. And a friend of a friend runs an exotic chicken-breeding farm in northern Michigan. Every once in a while we’ll get a huge crate." Adds Signorile: "Sometimes we’ll bid on eBay for feathers, and I’m constantly competing with people who are practicing peyote rituals. They make fans out of them."