there ain't nothing here that's valid.

This is Megumi Igarashi

She’s a Japanese artist

Japan, the country with some of the most fucked up pornography and the penis festival

Where the vagina is basically illegal to talk about 

So she did a bunch of art featuring 3D sculptures of her vagina, including this kayak, and was put in jail for it

She was indicted again in December on obscenity charges for selling vagina art to crowdfund for the kayak and could spend two years in prison

In Japan, women’s vaginas are treated as though they are men’s property. The trains here usually display pornographic advertisements. As a woman, I find that blatant objectification to be humiliating. I’m disgusted by it. My body belongs to me. So, with this project I wanted to release the vagina from the standard Japanese paradigm. Japan is lenient towards expressions of male sexuality and arousal, but not so for women. When a woman uses her body in artistic expression, her work gets ignored, and people treat her as if she’s some sex-crazed idiot. It all comes back to misogyny. And the vagina is at the heart of it. The vagina is ridiculed. It’s lusted after. Men don’t see women as equals—to them, women are just vaginas. Then they call my vagina-themed work “obscene,” and judge me according to laws written by and for men. [x]

She plans to turn her trial in to a manga comic. She seems pretty sure she’s not going to do any jail time but if you’d like to help her pay for her inevitable fine and court fees, you can check out her online store. There are little glow in the dark vagina characters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gracefully gathers everybody during a discussion with R. Emmett Tyrrell and Emily Maitlis. Watch it here. 

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the administration have decided that the press briefing will now include the reading of Trump fan mail. 

It should go without saying that this is not the purpose of press briefings and when reporters tried to ask Huckabee Sanders about the new transgender military ban she refused to respond. Even threatening to end the briefing. Instead the press briefing was spent reading a 9 year old’s letter to Trump and responding to the child’s letter, which she then published for the public:

For those who can’t read it:

Dear President Trump,

My name is Dylan [redacted] but every body calls me Pickle. I’m 9 years old and you are my fovrit President. I like you so much I had a birthday about you. My cake was the shape of your hat. How old are you? How big is the White Hose? How much monny do you have? I don’t now why people don’t like you. You seme nice can we be friends. My pitcher is in here so if you see me you can say hi. 

Your friend Dylan.

Obviously many journalists and reporters were annoyed with this, one correspondent from New York Magazine explains:

Amber Rose has the best response for why women should NEVER feel ashamed of demanding safe sex 

Amber Rose is simply not interested in your slut-shaming. The unapologetic social-media star doesn’t mince words when it comes to a woman’s right to own her sexuality. And you have to hear how passionately she defends the women in the audience.

Man rests after celebrating the end of prohibition 1933