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Femen activists stage topless protests across Europe in support of Arab women’s rights
Bare-breasted activists staged rallies in front of mosques and Tunisian embassies across Europe Thursday against what they called an Islamist crackdown on Arab women’s rights. Protesters from the Ukrainian women’s power group Femen held “International Topless Jihad Day” in capitals such as Berlin, Kiev and Paris and painted their torsos…
New feminist group trains female activists in violent, naked protest techniques
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists’ breasts obscuring the message? One day last summer, Inna Shevchenko went into a forest outside Kiev, to learn how to use a chainsaw. The lumberjacks who were instructing her couldn’t work out why she…
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