Tag: Feminist Porn

Sexy Band Names! Pussy Riots, Sex Pistols and Butthole Surfers

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PussyRiot

by Fiona Wilde. It’s days like this when I wish I were Russian. That country’s feminist punk rock band “Pussy Riot” is in the news again. If you follow the reports, you’ll know that the whole band was thrown in jail for advocating political views that ran contrary to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin. When he’s not being all James Bond badass by shooting tigers or flying helicopters or beating people at Judo, Putin relaxes by locking up people he doesn’t like. But in the case of Pussy Riot, he’s making a terrible mistake. Russia will never be a world leader if they silence the band with the g [...]

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Remaking Sexual Media with Feminist Porn

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Feminist Porn

by Ava Mir-Ausziehen The words ‘feminist’ and ‘porn’ have a lot in common: they both carry a lot of baggage, evoke a lot of strong feelings, and can be interpreted in many different ways by many different people. Consequently, people are often hesitant to identify with these terms or label things with them. This is in part why a moniker like ‘feminist porn’ can be so jarring, a seeming contradiction. But as editors of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (Feminist Press 2013), Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young explain, there is a long t [...]

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