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Fear of a Female Planet: Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) on Why Russia and the US Need a Pussy Riot

in Current Affairs, Music, Politics | September 12th, 2012 5 Comments







Courageous feminist punk band Pussy Riot has received more public exposure than they ever could have hoped for since three members were arrested after a February 21st performance at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral and charged with “hooliganism.” The band formed last September in direct response to Vladimir Putin’s decision to seek the presidency again in March 2012,

Sighs... basic journalism 101, check your facts!!! Pussy Riot is not a band, never was a band, they are/were an "art collective" and the "Pussy Riot" performance in the cathedral was was a guerrilla street art performance project. Too many news sources are just being lazy.

Originally Posted by pussy riot

A female sex organ, which is supposed to be receiving and shapeless, suddenly starts a radical rebellion against the cultural order,

Its always fascinating to me when young adult women suddenly discover something about their own vaginas which men have understood intuitively since the beginning of time. That the vagina is not a passive organ, but a powerful force of nature. It doesn't receive, it transforms.