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. “Now we have a rapist for a president and it’s terrifying how things changed in an instant. She is also finding the reach of SuicideGirls growing as an outlet for others frustrated and looking for empowerment.

Source: Forbes April 17, 2017 16:07 UTC