Peaches: Free Pussy Riot

Peaches makes work that pisses people off on purpose. Pussy Riot did too, and they paid for it in ways Peaches never had to, locked away for saying the wrong things in the wrong country at the wrong time.

But that’s what bonded them—not abstract solidarity but something deeper, the recognition that some artists simply won’t shut up no matter what. There’s no calculating whether it’s worth it. You make the work, you live with the consequences, you trust that the work was honest enough to matter. That’s where Peaches stood. That’s what she was saying: these women were right to refuse.