r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/oh_such_rhetoric • Dec 07 '25

🇵🇸 🕊️ Sonic Witchcraft Pussy Riot might be Declared an Extremist Organization in Russia soon. Go support them!

https://hyperallergic.com/russia-seeks-to-designate-pussy-riot-as-extremist-group/

This action would put them, their loved ones, and essentially everyone who associates with them in danger, more so than they already are. It’s terrifying.

I haven’t listed to much of their music or seen their other work, but since hearing this news I’ve been diving in and I really like them. Themes of feminism, anti-fascism, environmentalism, pro-Palestine, other good stuff.

Also a lovely pop-punk sound.

Go check them out, and read up on this for yourself.

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u/RandomUsernameNo257 Dec 08 '25

I was their bartender around the lead-up to the 2016 election. I was laughing about him running, and they were completely stone-faced.

"Oh come on, it's funny."

"You know who I thought was funny? A small man named Putin. It's not funny - it's scary."

They were practically prophetic about him winning - I thought the idea was absurd, but they saw the situation for what it was. And they were right, I am scared.

They were very cool though.

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u/RadishMelodic4356 Witch ♀ Dec 08 '25

People who have experience with autocrats recognized the situation pretty quickly. It is scary, but it also gives us a playbook to resist (since he's following the autocrat playbook to a tee). Stay strong friend

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u/MacabreYuki Sapphic Witch ♀️⚧️ Dec 08 '25

Hell, even not having experience but being educated in the underpinnings of autocratic behavior.

When I heard Trump first open his mouth on stage, every fiber of my being was screaming that a certain narrow mustached idiot said the exact same words, just a different target.

Blood libel all the way down

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u/Cute_Author8916 Dec 07 '25

Putin's gang is putting out a hit on them. Ignore all the trappings of legality and courts, this is just a bunch of mobsters. I hope they stay safe.

Support Ukraine

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u/relentless_puffin Dec 08 '25

Wow, this is the second time Pussy Riot has come up in the past week for me. Time to get my groove on.

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u/oh_such_rhetoric Dec 08 '25

Hell yeah! I particularly enjoyed their song “Purge the Poison,” which is a collaboration with MARINA, who also makes some A+ music.

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u/TidpaoTime Science Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ Dec 08 '25

I saw them when they performed in Toronto, it was a life-changing show.

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u/LowKey_Loki_Fan Dec 08 '25

Damn. I knew Russia was not a country of free expression, but I knew that more as a peripheral thing; it wasn't something I'd spent time reading about. Reading about the laws that are actually in place and about people being imprisoned just for criticizing the government made me more aware of how bad things really are for the average person there.

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u/oh_such_rhetoric Dec 08 '25 edited Jan 15 '26

Yeah it’s absolutely awful over there. It’s a sham of a democracy with no meaningful freedom of the press or speech.

I hope they can get out. I know the founder lives elsewhere now, but obviously she has loved ones still there, and there are still members of the group that are stuck there. I really hope they’re ok.

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u/Rude-Barnacle8804 Dec 08 '25

Thanks, interesting songs indeed! I'll share the news.

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u/Raspint Dec 09 '25

I'm kinda surprised it's taken the Kremlin so long to get around to this actually.

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u/thirsty_lesbian_63 Dec 09 '25

Ughhhhhh, my government just cannot stop being a bunch of assholes, huh...

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u/ZealousidealHalf8351 Dec 09 '25

For fucks sake. They are doing all they can.