Mere seconds after tweeting that my pitch to write this article was accepted, some random guy on twitter had this to say to me… “Lena Dunham is the voice of a masturbatory, hyper-self & her pathological titty baring represents Generation Shit.”
Two weeks ago, outside one of New Delhi’s most popular malls, a 23-year-old physiology student and her male friend decided to catch a bus home after seeing a movie. It wasn’t very late, only about 9 PM, and the bus that pulled up was marked “chartered,” nicer than the normal Delhi Transport Corporation buses and sporting tinted windows and curtains.
Happy Global Pussy Riot Day! Sad Global Pussy Riot Day :( If you’ve any interest in punk rock, feminism, freedom of speech or justice, you’ll know by now that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevic have been found guilty of hooliganism in a very high-profile court case in Moscow.
The maximum sentence they face is seven years, which is beyond ludicrous, since nothing during the protest was damaged and no one was hurt. Apart maybe from Putin’s ego and the public image of the Russian Orthodox Church, but neither of those things (ostensibly, at least) are crimes against anything enshrined in Russian law (yet).
Most of the world views Sweden as a bastion of liberal-socialist tolerance and forward-thinking feminist ideology, but it turns out the country’s open-mindedness extends only so far as its armpits. And if them shits are hairy, all of the talk of acceptance and the perils of prejudice gets tossed down a drain clogged with short-and-curlies.
As many times as we’ve heard Morrissey exclaim through multiple songs and various PETA campaigns that meat is, in fact, a murderous act, it’s hard to ignore how cool of a stage prop it can actually be. I mean, who doesn’t like a severed, bloody pig’s head in conjunction with their favorite band? Since 17, Teresa Suarez, aka Teri Gender Bender, founder and guitarist of Mexican garage Punk band, Le Butcherettes, has been using blood and gore for her live performances for reasons that extend far beyond the grotesque, and into the ideals and ethics of the importance of the feminist movement.
