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Pussy Riot, God Save Abortion at Indiana Supreme Court

Pussy Riot storms Indiana’s supreme court for ‘God Save Abortion’ protest

The protest group staged the musical protest art action alongside the state’s students, to condemn its draconian abortion laws

Nov 22, 2023

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova joins Russia’s most wanted list

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant in the wake of the artist’s provocative performance piece, Putin’s Ashes

Mar 30, 2023

Thom Waite

My Body, My Business: a feminist auction to benefit reproductive rights

Pussy Riot, Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramović, and more star in a UnicornDAO and Sotheby’s auction to celebrate IWD 2023

Mar 08, 2023

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on casting a spell to kill Putin

The protest collective’s first solo gallery show invites you to don a balaclava and watch magic and activism collide

Jan 27, 2023

Thom Waite

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Nan Goldin & Jenny Holzer feature in new exhibition about women’s pleasure

‘In art, the unruliness of women’s sexuality blooms’: A Woman’s Right To Pleasure features work by 30 artists exploring their desires

Aug 05, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

New Music Friday: 5 albums to stream this week

bbymutha returns with a new EP, Fireboy DML shares his third album, and Pussy Riot drop their long-awaited debut mixtape

Aug 05, 2022

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After a decade of resistance, Pussy Riot are releasing their debut mixtape

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells Dazed about assembling a ‘feminist army’ for MATRIARCHY NOW, and shares the collective’s new single, ‘Plastic’

Jul 08, 2022

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina on art and activism in wartime Russia

After a daring escape from Moscow, Alyokhina has regrouped with the punk collective to ‘stand with Ukraine during the terrifying war that Putin started’

May 27, 2022

Thom Waite

Reka Nyari, ‘The Land of Milk and Honey’

Pussy Riot’s new billboard exhibition showcases women and LGBTQ+ artists

Activist and curator Nadya Tolokonnikova tells Dazed about the revolutionary goals of the protest group’s public #Pussyverse show

Mar 07, 2022

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot’s Masha Alekhina is jailed for posting ‘extremist propaganda’

The activist has been jailed for the second time in two months, in connection with a 2015 Instagram post featuring swastika imagery

Feb 09, 2022

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot respond to being labelled ‘foreign agents’ by Russian government

Two members of the activist group have been branded with the term, which carries implications of spying – but they’re refusing to comply with its rules

Jan 04, 2022

Brit Dawson

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova is auctioning a bottle of her own blood

The activist’s new artwork, Drink My Blood, also includes her bloodstained ‘freedom certificate’, in both physical and NFT form, alongside unreleased music from the group

Dec 02, 2021

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot members leave Russia to escape ‘continuous arrests’

Rita Flores, a member of the activist group, has recently been hospitalised with COVID during a stint in jail

Aug 04, 2021

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot members say they’ve been jailed for just ‘existing’

Just hours after being released following their June arrests, four of the activists are now back behind bars for ‘petty hooliganism’, public swearing, and arguing with a police officer