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MEN Made a Very Danceable Pussy Riot Protest Tune

“This is a revolution and together we will win,” sings JD Samson on the new MEN track, “Let Them Out or Let Me In,” which comes out a week before Masha, Nadia, and Katya are due in Moscow City Court for their final appeal, on Oct. 10. If their sentence...

“This is a revolution and together we will win,” sings JD Samson on the new MEN track, “Let Them Out or Let Me In,” which comes out a week before Masha, Nadia, and Katya are due in Moscow City Court for their final appeal, on Oct. 10. If their sentence isn’t overturned, they are expected to spend two years in detention centers.

When he interviewed them recently, secretly, through their lawyers, Michael Idov asked the three grrls if it bothered them, as feminists, that their popularity was at least partly related to their beauty. Katya’s answers were confiscated. Nadya took a stab at the premise of feminist:

I humbly hope that our attractiveness performs a subversive function. First of all, because without “us” in balaclavas, jumping all over Red Square with guitars, there is no “us” smiling sweetly in the courtroom. You can’t get the latter without the former. Second, because this attractiveness destroys the idiotic stereotype, still extant in Russia, that a feminist is an ugly-ass frustrated harridan. This stereotype is so puke-making that I will deign to be sweet for a little bit in order to destroy it. Though every time I open my mouth, the sweetness goes out the window anyway.

The “jumping all over Red Square with guitars” thing is well documented in the video, a montage of Pussy Riot clips. See JD Samson profiled on an episode of Electric Independence, and follow the prisoners at Freepussyriot.org.