... instance, Pussy Riot’s brief concert in a Moscow ca- thedral, consists of shouted slogans and symbolic actions. The sec- ond, Archbishop Moses Tay’s attempt to exorcise the totem poles in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, confronts sacred objects with a sym- bolic violence that ironically signals...

... agency” (ec, 101). Cho Revolution works through fi gurations of the vagina that run from the candid to the seemingly bizarre in lines such as “her pussy exploded!” (a reference to perineal tearing during childbirth) and “Pussy crack corn . . . and I don’t care.” Lee shows how these “pussy...

.... But Molly, my mother’s best friend, had a thing for possums. “Gone possum hunting,” she said. “They got pussy and the men are going after it.” Pussy and possum, there’s something to it. And she knew it. Tall, too stout to be statuesque, she wore a lot of makeup. I later thought she looked like she...

... pollen of the pussy willows dissipates, the timepiece in my room will remain quietly stopped at 3:13. 2 Time has stopped at 3:13. It could move forward, but it doesn’t, and this stopped time is carried forward paradoxically through time, into the new year: “ my spring is three thirteen carried...

... and stare down. In the meanwhile, he is grabbing some phantom of the feminine “by” the pussy. Grammatically straying, semantically off-center, the Trumpian assertion comes about as a “tell.” Whatever kind of strip poker his boasting engages, he is at once chillingly on point about sexualizable yields...

..., banning acts or words “offending religious feelings” or the “public desecration” of religious spaces.19 The laws were seen as a response to the notorious feminist punk band Pussy Riot’s perfor- mance in Moscow’s central Orthodox church for which two of its members were found guilty of “hooliganism...