I bet pro-lifers were pretty P.O.ed this weekend when their events kept getting derailed by unwelcome intruders. First, D.C.’s March for Life was hampered by an inconvenient blizzard, then, San Francisco’s Walk for Life had to contend with a bunch of topless feminists.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn began his testimony yesterday in his trial for "pimping," and we finally got to hear former International Monetary Fund head's defense for participating in lavish orgies in Paris and Washington. Strauss-Kahn's defense, nutshelled: He only went to four orgies a year, and he was totally unaware…
Hark! The heretic angels sing!
A few weeks ago, a few members of FEMEN were attacked in the Ukraine, one of whom was identified as "consultant of the mivement Victor Svatsky." But a new documentary Ukraine Is Not a Brothel: The Femen Story has revealed that Svatsky is not just a friend of FEMEN but in fact the man responsible for the entire…
Two seemingly unrelated stories in the New York Times about violence against women in two different European countries demonstrate that if you just listen to women, they'll tell you what they need to fix a problem. A while the answer is usually more help from the government, women usually point to different solutions…
FEMEN, the Ukrainian feminist group that's been grabbing headlines for their topless protesting, has used their naked bodies as billboards for messages against the patriarchy, religion, and political suppression. While Russia's Vladmir Putin smirks at them from behind security guards, in predominantly Muslim…
Vladmir Putin, the Khal Drogo of Russia, has gotten his fair share of protestors, thanks to his administration's less than friendly handling of critics of the administration i.e., the unexplained murders of countless journalists since he came into power, Pussy Riot, etc. etc.
FEMEN, the "sextremist" feminist group known for staging topless protests, declared yesterday "International Topless Jihad Day" in solidarity with Amina Tyler, a 19 year old Tunisian activist who had received death threats after posting topless pictures of herself to Femen's Tunisian Facebook page. She had written…
A 19-year-old Tunisian girl was committed to a mental hospital by her parents after posting topless photos of herself in on a website for the Ukraine-based topless radical protest group FEMEN. Amina (last name unknown), had been corresponding online with FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko since the end of February, mostly…
Earlier today, the extreme right Catholic group, Civitas Institute (consisting mostly of senior military and business leaders), took to the streets of Lyon, France, to demonstrate against the legalization of same-sex marriage, which appears to be hopefully imminent, as the draft law will be voted on in early-to-mid…
The fallout from Russian punk band Pussy Riot's conviction has led to sporadic protesting, some protests being just a touch more vigorous than others. Take, for example, the stunt one enterprising group of irreligious vandals pulled over the weekend in chopping down four wooden Orthodox crosses. Though the Russian…
After famously topless Femen protesters crashed the economic bacchanal at Davos in January, Europe has nervously awaited the sensationalist women's rights group's next move. Would they give the popemobile an ironic carwash with egg yolks during Easter, or create a human tableaux of Judith killing Holofernes in protest…
Police in Davos, Switzerland detained and later released three Ukrainian women who were denouncing the World Economic Forum of insidious rich people, armed only with their bare breasts and pithy chants such as, "Poor because of you." The women were members of the group FEMEN, which has been gaining attention…
Despite the Time Person of the Year-certified rise of "the protester," recently we've seen multiple instances of female demonstrators being stripped and harassed, from a "Tent Monster" at Occupy Melbourne to the women whose clothes were ripped off by soldiers in Cairo. The women of the Ukrainian group Femen are famous…
Depending on who you ask, Occupy Wall Street is either the inevitable outpouring populist outrage resulting from decades of corporate greed and abuse or a goalless collection of spoiled unemployed hippie sex fiends who just want to complain about something. Regardless of what you think about the protesters, the cause…
The Ukranian protest group FEMEN — known for organizing topless demonstrations against sexism, sex tourism, and whatever else is going wrong — is at it again. This time, the ladies showed up at the opening ceremony of a huge internet convention and, while chanting "internet without censorship," used bunches of twigs…
We're always fascinated by stories of Femen, the bare-breasted and be-wreathed Ukrainian feminist activist collective. Their message? "Our God is woman, our mission is protest, our weapons are bare breasts." In freezing weather, no less!
Ukrainian activists Femen strike again! Their bare-breasted message in the Kiev metro was directed at "the rush hour perverts that like to trespass up our skirts and undo their pants."
Perhaps you've heard of frequently-topless kamikaze Ukrainian feminist collective FEMEN. And if you've ever wondered, say, how they eat between arrests and protests, Animal New York has your answers, thanks to their behind-the-scenes tour.
[Kiev, August 24. An activist of a local women's rights watchdog FEMEN, with writing "I am independent" and Ukraine's' national flag on her belly, seen during celebrities on the occasion of Ukraine's 19th Independence. Image via AP]
