Selena Mooney, better known as Missy Suicide, co-founded the SuicideGirls as an online community for women to express themselves in 2001. That was during the beginning stages of the President George W Bush administration.
To Mooney, as the girls kick off the 63-city U.S. "Blackheart Burlesque" tour, 16 years later, things feel very much like the early days of the SuicideGirls politically, and not in a good way.
“I feel like in some ways the political climate is such that it’s more similar to when I started SuicideGirls than it was even a year ago,” she says over lunch in L.A. “It’s terrifying cause I thought that we’d made so much progress, but I feel like I’m back in the trenches, it’s kind of invigorating.”
Mooney, like many, was shocked by the cultural climate change that came about with the election of President Donald Trump. She fully expected a win for Hillary Clinton and Mooney is not shy about her disdain for Trump and his policies, particularly as they pertain to women’s rights.
“Before the election it was almost like a rest on your laurels sort of situation where it was a given women had equal rights and women had equal power,” she says. “Now we have a rapist for a president and it’s terrifying how things changed in an instant. The world changed overnight.”
Original article and more at https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2017/04/17/suicidegirls-energized-and-ready-for-battle-on-new-tour/