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28 июня 2018
Women in This City Are Campaigning Against Nipple Censorship on Social Media
A global campaign with its headquarters in Barcelona wants women to bare all this June to persuade Instagram to allow showing female nipples in the name of equality. Here’s everything you need to know.
Background
A campaign launched in Barcelona is calling on social media companies to stop censoring women’s nipples.
The #STOPnipplecensorship campaign’s aim, according to its manifesto, is to “raise awareness for gender equality so women can show the natural beauty of the nipple if they choose to do so”.
The campaign is the brainchild of the women behind the Instagram profile Nipple Magazine (@nipplemagazine), launched two years ago to collect images of censored nipples from across the platform.
“We felt it was time to go a step further with the #STOPnipplecensorship campaign, telling the world that “MY NIPPLES ARE NOT” emojis, hearts, doodles and all the other items that we see being used on Instagram in order for photos to be posted and meet the current community standards,” Nipple Magazine founder Patricia Luján told Culture Trip.
“This is wrong. Female nipples are exactly the same as the male nipples.”
On June, 28, the group will launch its campaign to denounce female nipple censorship entitled “My nipples are not…” on Instagram stories.
They want the public to get involved by posting pictures of they censored nipples using the hashtag #STOPnipplecensorship and tagging @nipplemagazine.
A global movement
For Luján, the campaign fits in with the current climate of change in which women around the world have been fighting for equality through movements like #metoo and #timesup.
“Women from all over the world are organising themselves in networks of sisterhood and solidarity in search of social changes and equality,” she said.
“The Internet connects us, unites us and allows movements to cross borders. Movements like #FreetheNipple #metoo #timesup have found voices in the networks to expand concepts of freedom, equality and social justice,” said Luján.
Equality
For the organisers of #STOPnipplecensorship, it all comes down to one simple idea: equality.
“If men can share their nipples on social media, why can’t women? And who is Instagram or Facebook to decide that one body is more sexual than another?” Patricia Luján told Culture Trip.
Instagram makes it clear in its guidelines just which types of nipples will and will not be tolerated:
“We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don’t allow nudity on Instagram. This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks. It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed.”
The current campaign is not the first to tackle the nipple situation on social media and in real life.
In 2012, the Free the Nipple campaign was founded by filmmaker Lina Esco in New York, with the aim of challenging the double standard that allowed men to be seen with their tops off on social media, but banned women from sharing their topless photographs.
Many celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Rihanna and Lena Dunham lent their support to the campaign.
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