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Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him
I woke up to a call from Vincent van Gogh today. He told me he wants the Just Stop Oil protesters who threw soup on his Sunflowers to be released immediately. I nodded and promised to do everything I could to ensure Phoebe and Anna would be freed soon. Our conversation continued. “What would life Continue Reading »
Nadya Tolokonnikova Tells Vladimir Sorokin About Life Inside a Russian Prison
When Nadya Tolokonnikova was 22, “the spirit of oprichnina” was already making its way through the capital of Russia. She formed Pussy Riot, a Riot grrrl-esque punk performance art group, in 2011, the year before Vladimir Putin’s administration sentenced her to two years in prison for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” a vindictive response to Continue Reading »
Putin Can’t Kill the Vision of the Future Navalny Gave Us
It’s 2007, a warm, sunny spring day in Moscow. It’s my first rally, and I’m nervous. I’m 16, silly and shy, falling in love with courageous and loud people around me. I hear my quiet voice join others screaming, “Russia without Putin.” We lock our arms and together push the police out of the street. Continue Reading »
Just like Pussy Riot, Sasha Skochilenko has incurred Putin’s wrath. But we won’t let him win
“Despite the fact that I am in a cell, it is possible that I am much more free than all of you.” These were the defiant words of the 33-year-old Russian artist Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko in the closing statement of her trial in St Petersburg last Thursday. Two hours later the judge sentenced her to Continue Reading »
Peter Gets Bonked
2011, September 30th – Pussy Riot was just willed into existence by myself and Kat during a lecture on punk feminism. We didn’t find any good examples of it in russia, so we created a fictitious band, Pussy Riot – “they are doing some very excellent work”. You can watch this lecture in Tasya and Continue Reading »