Pussy Riot Protests Outside Indiana Statehouse

Russian feminist activism group Pussy Riot filmed demonstrations outside of and within the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday as part of a multimedia project protesting Nadya Tolokonnikova , creator of the group that rose to prominence through early 2010s protests in her native Russia, led a gathering of 18 women – mostly Indiana University students.

The group, dressed in black slip dresses, black boots and wearing pearl necklaces and bright-pink balaclava face coverings painted with black anarchy symbols and black crosses, gathered outside the Statehouse just before 8 a.m. Within minutes, they had inflated a large pink vagina and begun filming. The footage will be spliced with other visual art pieces and set to a song entitled “God Save Abortion.” The video was released Tuesday afternoon.“I read on news sites that Indiana was the first state to install a near-total ban on abortion,” Tolokonnikova told IndyStar. “I believe in bodily autonomy. It’s a fundamental pillar of human right

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