Kembra Pfahler has made fearlessly political music and performances that have enthralled and shocked audiences in equal parts since the 1980s. She once had her vagina sewn shut for Richard Kern’s short film Sewing Circle (1992) and made love to a rubber octopus in Nick Zedd’s film War is Menstrual Envy (1992). With her infamous group The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, she shows why she is one of the current moment’s pivotal feminist artists. AnOther Magazine described the band as: unforgettable figures in their signature wigs, body paint, blackened teeth and thigh-high stiletto boots – part horror B-movie, part deviant geishas. Pfahler is also part of Future Feminism, an art project that started in 2014.