...Barbara Browning “This Balaclava Is Too Hot” is a narrative account of the author’s experiences presenting material in public forums on the relationship between faith, feminism, and aesthetics in the work of Pussy Riot. While US audiences have tended to sympathize with the anti-Putin political...

... and pop, performance and fakery, has continued to resonate with bands who have attempted to mix a pop stance with oppositional politics. This unstable mix was foregrounded in the prosecution of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot in 2012, when three members of the band were arrested...

... punk band Pussy Riot for “hooliganism” for their protest performances against the Putin regime ignited global controversy, music was only one element, and perhaps not the most important part, of their activist performance of their “Punk Prayer...

... are there; there are new people there with pink pussy hats that you no longer find as stupid; the line is “no walls, no borders,” and someone has started a Palestine chant; everyone is chanting it, including some people who are probably new, who have probably never chanted for Palestine before. And here in this spot...

... collective Pussy Riot were arrested for playing just a few seconds of their song “Punk Prayer: Mother of God Drive Putin Away” in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 2011. This performance led to the arrest and prosecution of three of their members and received substantial international attention...

... Strokes, who was played by the that which he teenage Janet Jackson and was everything I had never had the chance to dream a girl could be. And now I could dream: pretty in purple plaid pussy initially dreaded: bow-collared blouse with leg-of-mutton sleeves and tight...

... that “the pornography industry’s exploitation of the Black woman’s body is qualitatively different from that of the white woman. While white women are pictured as pillow-soft pussy willows, the stereo- 54 Nash • Black Feminism and Antipornography Feminism...

..., whether by accident or design. When the same sergeant first testified on tape about Wilson’s statement to him, he did not mention the provocative phrase, “You’re too much of a pussy to fight me,” later attributed to Michael Brown. At the grand jury hearing...

..., and embassy staff and drew parallels between his own plight and that of other “political prisoners,” including Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond in the United States, Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain, and Pussy Riot in Russia. Over the subsequent three years, Assange ventured onto this intermediary terrain only four...