Rihanna’s religious imagery is a protest against feminine ideals of respectability and decency

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Rihanna’s religious imagery is a protest against feminine ideals of respectability and decency

Associated Press / Alamy Stock PhotoRihanna’s no stranger to causing a stir. This time, she’s attracted controversy and outrage with her “dehumanising and degrading” representation of a nun for the Spring 2024 cover of Interview magazine. This isn’t Rihanna’s first use of religious imagery in her work, either. Take her “sexy pope” outfit at the 2018 Met Gala, for example. It became an iconic look, since immortalised in a Madame Tussard’s wax wor…