Saturday, August 18, 2012

Putin v. Pussy Riot

How many times does one get to headline a blog with that, eh? Here's what the kerfuffle is about. h/t to Annie Laurie at Balloon Juice.




... Pussy Riot has no formal membership, tries to operate anonymously, and cites the riot grrrl movement as inspiration. According to a member of the collective: “We developed what they did in the 1990s, although in an absolutely different context and with an exaggerated political stance, which leads to all of our performances being illegal—we’ll never gig in a club or special musical space.”...

Here's a timeline....these gals took on not only Putin's (which rhymes with Rasputin's) sacred cow, they did it in an active Russian Orthodox cathedral. Can we call both of those sacred bears?

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