- 1. Feminist Performance Artists Face Jail Time
- (Arts)
- ... of performance art, stories of arrests, trials and court orders abound and this continues to this day. In 2014, Megumi Igarashi, a Japanese artist from Tokyo, was arrested on charges of obscenity. She ...
- Created on 10 May 2016
- 2. Vagina Kayak Artist Asks, ‘All This Fuss Over Pussy?’
- (Arts)
- You might remember the story of Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, a.k.a. Rokudenashiko, who built a kayak modeled on her own vagina*. She was arrested twice for allegedly violating obscenity laws when ...
- Created on 17 March 2016
- 3. Vagina Kayak Artist On Trial For Obscenity
- (Arts)
- We’ve entered the second year of an insane legal battle between the Japanese government and Megumi Igarashi, an artist who was arrested for displaying images and molds of her own vagina and now faces ...
- Created on 08 September 2015
- 4. My Vagina Part One: Male Discusses Stigmatization of Vaginas in the Media
- (Feminism)
- In light of Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi’s arrest for her “obscene” vagina art, it’s safe to say that our society has developed some sort of vendetta against our vaginas (or has the extremely rational ...
- Created on 24 July 2014
- 5. Vagina Artist Arrested For Obscenity
- (Arts)
- Megumi Igarashi, a Japanese artist who works under the pseudonym Rokudenashiko, meaning “good-for-nothing-girl”, has built an artistic career using models of her vagina. Igarashi began using the theme ...
- Created on 18 July 2014
