Nadezhda TolokonnikovaBesprekingen
Auteur van Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
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Nadya Tolokonnikova (Nadya Tolokno) has been in the news for several years as the band femenist punk band Pussy Riot created memorable disruptions. Eventually arrested for Hooliganism while singing Anti-Putin songs, Tolokno was locked up in a long chain of rights crushing prisons. In her book, Tolokno tells a compelling story of how persistance and resistance are unarguably intertwined.
Quote:
What happens to different things when they are placed in boiling water?
- Soft things like eggs become hard.
- Hard things like carrots become soft.
- Coffee dissolves and permeates everything..
The point of the parable is this: Be like coffee. In prison, I am like coffee.
How much more needs to be said about strong vocal women intent on being catalysts of change? Just read this book.
Interesting highlights from Read and Riot include
- For than 20 quotes I wanted to put in my review before selecting the above
- Knowledge that this book was not translated, instead weitten in english.. because it wouldnt have been worth it if it was easy
- a surprise statement by Kim Deal ;)
Worth noting, Pussy Riot co-founder Maria (Masha) Alyokhina has a number of books out as well. Between the two of them, there is a little mini activism library.