Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot performs Revolution in Los Angeles on Sunday. Photo: IC Still relishing provocation three years after their release from a Russian prison Adidas Ultra Boost Hombre España , the punk rockers Pussy Riot are reviving their challenge to President Vladimir Putin in an action-packed autobiographical theatrical piece.
Maria Alyokhina, one of two key members of the group who went to prison, has taken Pussy Riot in a new avant-garde direction in an hour-long performance called Revolution that merges punk, electronica, theater Adidas Ultra Boost Mujer España , documentary footage and plenty of snide references to Putin.
Characterized by Alyokhina as a "living book," the piece is based on a memoir she will publish later this year. It kicks off with an allusion to Russia's Bolshevik takeover 100 years ago and a rhetorical question about whether her piece is about that revolution.
"No, the one that's happening now!" Alyokhina shouts in unison with actor Kiryl
Kanstantsinau before em
barking on an frenetic account of the feminist collective since its founding in 2011.
Alyokhina and fellow member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were charged with hooliganism after they sneaked into a cathedral near the Kremlin and - for less than a minute - performed a "punk prayer" against Putin.
If Pussy Riot was about shock tactics, Alyokhina in Revolution explains the intellectual underpinnings. Putin, the piece charges Adidas Ultra Boost LTD España , had been
transforming himself into an emperor through fraudulent elections.
The Russian Orthodox Church, she charges, had become "servants of the tsar" with little to do besides selling "elite porcelain eggs and replicas of imperial-era medals."
Pussy Riot casts itself a part of the history of revolution. Screen images shift from Eugene Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People, the goddess triumphantly raising the French tricolor, to footage of Pussy Riot rising in Red Square to sing "Putin Has Pissed His Pants."
Alyokhina Adidas Ultra Boost SNS España , 28, relives her detention in a penal colony in the Ural Mountains, where she recounts being disciplined for waking up at 5:45 am instead of 5:20 am and going on a hunger strike to protest her conditions.
She ends the piece with a warning that freedom does not exist on its own - "Fight for it every day!"
A teacher tells third-grade students about private body parts at the Primary School Affiliated to the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology on October 24, 2011, the first day sex textbooks were used in 18 primary and middle schools around the city. Photo: CFP
A series of controversial sex education textbooks for young children that sparked outcry at a primary school in East China's Zhejiang Province will no longer be used Adidas Ultra Boost Custom España , chinanews quoted school officials as saying Tuesday.
Though some parents complained about the book's straightforward explanations of reproduction, homosexuality and sexual abuse, many netizens expressed their support for the books.
Experts told the Global Times that people should set aside their prejudice and allow children to receive this kind of education, which can teach them how to protect themselves if they face abuse.
Moral panic
An official from Hangzhou's Gaoqiao Primary School said on Monday that the school had decided to withdraw the groundbreaking textbooks.
A mother of a second grade student at the school posted on Sina Weibo on February 28 that she was shocked to find that her child's textbook included cartoons of male and female reproductive organs.
She posted a picture of a chapter that teaches children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse. Her picture shows a cartoon of woman asking to see a young boy's genitals.
Her post went viral, sparking discussion with many criticizing the textbook's content as "too much."
"Too early or too much sex education may cause children to start puberty too early!" one Sina Weibo user said. There is no evidence that reading can spark puberty.
Knowledge is power
The textbook series, named "Cherish Life," was published by an academic group specializing in child sex education under Beijing Normal University after nine years of research, the Beijing Youth Daily reported on Tuesday.
The academic group said Saturday that they are not sure how many schools around the country are using their textbooks Adidas Ultra Boost Kith España , but are able to confirm 18 Beijing schools have adopted them.
Different books in the series are intended to be used with students from grades one to five.
The volume for first graders presents the cartoons of human organs that so worried the mother.
Material about sexual intercourse, menstruation and nocturnal emissions are introduced in books for second and third graders. Fifth grade students are told by the books that homosexuality is normal.
The books also tell children about gender equality, saying that men can be nurses, while women can also serve in the army.
When the books came under fire, people felt compelled to speak up in support of their efforts.
"That a parent thought she was correct to report such textbooks showed that how ignorant Chinese adults' understanding of sex is. Do they think they are protecting their children?" said one user of Weibo.
"This is why many boys grow up with pornography as their sex education textbook and imagine all women are like pornographic actresses Adidas Ultra Boost ACE 16 España ," said another Weibo user.
"I support such education. My son is in third grade, but they do not have this kind of class at his school," a mother in Ji'nan, East China's Shandong Province, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
"I bought him picture books on sex education when he was very young. When he asks me about these things Adidas Ultra Boost Uncaged España , I always tell him the facts in
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