1. Nadya Tolokonnikova is a founding member of the feminist group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the street art group Voina.
18 Facts About Nadya Tolokonnikova
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Nadya Tolokonnikova was born on November 7,1989, in the industrial city of Norilsk, Russia, to parents Andrey Stepanovich Tolokonnikov and Yekaterina Voronina.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova's parents divorced when she was five years old.
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In 2007, at age 17, Nadya Tolokonnikova moved to Moscow, and enrolled in the philosophy department of the Moscow State University.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova was in the late stages of pregnancy at the time.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova was among the Voina members who disrupted a trial for the director of the Andrei Sakharov Center in 2009.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova took part in a series of actions Operation Kiss Garbage, from January through March 2011.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova was serving the remainder of her two-year sentence in the IK-14 women's penal colony near the settlement of Partsa, Republic of Mordovia.
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In late September 2013, Nadya Tolokonnikova was hospitalised after going without food for a week.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova was treated in the prison's medical ward; authorities did not release more specific details.
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On November 5,2013, it was reported that Nadya Tolokonnikova had been transferred to IK-50, a prison located near Nizhny Ingash, approximately 300 kilometres from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
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In 2021, Nadezhda Nadya Tolokonnikova announced that she had started an account on OnlyFans, a paid membership site that was known for allowing women to create and sell pornography with their own image.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss freedom of press worldwide, and in particular the future of independent media in Russia, such as Mediazona.
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Between 2018 and 2019, Nadya Tolokonnikova wrote music for and toured with the musical production Riot Days, based on the book of the same name by Maria Alyokhina.
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In 2022, Nadya Tolokonnikova founded Unicorn DAO, a collector's decentralized autonomous organization dedicated to collecting and incubating non-fungible tokens created by female, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ artists in Web3.
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An interview between Jessica Williams, Phoebe Robinson, and Nadya Tolokonnikova was featured in a November 2016 episode of the podcast 2 Dope Queens.
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That same year, Nadya Tolokonnikova appeared on a remix of the track "Jacked Up" by Weezer on the deluxe edition of their eponymous album.
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In 2021, Nadya Tolokonnikova appeared on the track "Stop Making Stupid People Famous" by Our Lady Peace.