Author: Nadya Tolokonnikova

For us the Punk Prayer in the Christ the Savior Cathedral is not too important anymore. We are different people now. We lived through a long life in prison; it is a totally different reality from the one you live, and this life, this common experience, unites us now much more than joint participation in the Punk Prayer in the Christ the Savior Cathedral. Russia is built on the model of a penal colony and that is why it is so important to change the penal colonies today to change Russia. I don’t consider this time wasted. I gained unique experience which will make it easier to really engage in human rights work. I became older, I saw the state from within, I saw this totalitarian machine as it is. 2 years ago I was a student at Moscow State University. Now Vladimir Putin has given me a cruel, but enlightening education at the IK-14 Penal Colony in Mordovia. For The Real Nadya Tolokonnikova the future will be less about Pussy Riot and more about our prison reform project Justice Zone. Meanwhile here on iRez, I, Fake Nadya share her ideology, but my work is a bit simpler. I organize Virtual Public Art Activities and operate a freedom apparel shop, Asylum in Your Embassy, which has locations on the web and in the virtual world Second Life.
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Don’t Let Pussy Riot Into the Cathedral

In the “Don’t Let Pussy Riot Into the Cathedral” video game you can protect the cathedral by whacking balaclava-clad Pussy Rioters on the head with a cross!

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Nadya Tolokonnikova, seamstress

Free, Freedom Fashions now available at Asylum in Your Embassy! Balaclavas, Dresses, T-Shirts. Better clothes for a better world!

Photo from Wikimedia Commons of Nadya Tolokno and others in a protest march on 2007-6-11. Русский: Пётр Верзилов и Надежда Толоконникова на Марше несогласных в 2007 году в Москве (2007-06-11; фото Денис Бочкарев). English: Pyotr Verzilov and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Dissenters' March; 2007-06-11; Denis Bochkarev).
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Nadya Tolokno Hunger Strike Begins Today

In the colony, the inmates in charge of the brigades as well as their senior members are the ones tasked with depriving fellow inmates’ rights, terrorising them, and turning them into speechless slaves — all on the orders of the administration.

Previz #76. Activity #2. Mexico City, 1968. 3 Avatars on a medals podium raise pink gloved fists in a "pussy power salute. The gesture harkening 1968's "black power salute." Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina & Yekaterina Samutsevich, as Tommie Smith, Juan Carlos and Peter Norman.
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Previz #76 – Activity #2: Mexico City, 1968

I propose Mexico City, 1968 a virtual Olympic Games. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina & Yekaterina Samutsevich, as Tommie Smith, Juan Carlos and Peter Norman. 1968 in resonance with 2013. Mexico City with Sochi. Black Gloves with Pink.

Activity No. 1. Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade. Photo of avatar Nadya Tolokno.
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Activity No.1 – Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade

In Activity No.1 – Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade, I, “fake Nadya Tolonko” was joined by 29 other avatars in a solidarity march at virtual Moscow in Second Life

Illustration of Nadya Tolokno. Pussy Riot trial summer 2012.
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My Statement at My Parole Hearing

Everywhere—in schools, prisons and universities, at voting stations and sitting in front of the TV—we are taught to obey, to lie, to bite our tongues, to say “yes” when we want to say “no.” The great cause of our civilization is to foster in ourselves, our children and friends an antidote to this obedience—an obedience that eats people alive.