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…
Activists set up an international training center in Paris to teach women the art of naked protest In a chaotic and crumbling former public washhouse in a rundown district of northern Paris, Inna Shevchenko was explaining how a large leather punchbag hanging from the rafters might be used by the…