Nadya Tolokonnikova is not fucking around. A member of the anarchist feminist group Pussy Riot, she was convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” after a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2012, and sentenced to two years imprisonment. She was 23 years old. Her unapologetic art, activism and outspoken opinions about the state of the world have defined her as one of the leading voices in the new feminist freedom fight. She published a book in 2018 called Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism. We caught up over over zoom – I was in New Zealand and she called in from an undisclosed location – and talked about everything under the sun from insecurity, keeping our heads together, and what punk means in 2020.