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I do all my Zoom calls & webinars with a portrait of a topless activist as my background and “The Revolution is My Cunt” is a saying of mine.
BUT what the actual fuck is this statue and whose gaze is it for? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/mary-wollstonecraft-finally-honoured-with-statue-after-200-years
BUT what the actual fuck is this statue and whose gaze is it for? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/mary-wollstonecraft-finally-honoured-with-statue-after-200-years
Again: nudity is not the issue. What is being conveyed and for whose gaze is.
Why, after years of so few statues of women, is the naked female form of statues being erected for & about women?
Whether it’s a statue for #MaryWollstonecraft in #London or #Medusa in #NYC
Why, after years of so few statues of women, is the naked female form of statues being erected for & about women?
Whether it’s a statue for #MaryWollstonecraft in #London or #Medusa in #NYC
And: which female form is being celebrated by those statues?
A cisgender woman’s body that is considered attractive to a heterosexual male gaze.
I reject slut shaming. There is nothing wrong with nudity.
But whose terms is it on and whose body does it celebrate is the Q?
A cisgender woman’s body that is considered attractive to a heterosexual male gaze.
I reject slut shaming. There is nothing wrong with nudity.
But whose terms is it on and whose body does it celebrate is the Q?
There is a long history of women using semi/naked bodies as protest.
The portrait behind me in my videos is from artist Nadine Faraj’s exhibit Naked Revolt. It is of #Egyptian activist Aliaa Mahdy who I wrote about in 2011 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/18/egypt-naked-blogger-aliaa-mahdy
The portrait behind me in my videos is from artist Nadine Faraj’s exhibit Naked Revolt. It is of #Egyptian activist Aliaa Mahdy who I wrote about in 2011 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/18/egypt-naked-blogger-aliaa-mahdy
In 2015, activists who were part of the Oakland-based organization BlackOUT Collective, donned the painted names of Black women victims of police brutality on their bare chests as they marched down a busy San Francisco street during rush hour. https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2015/05/87961/topless-protesters-san-francisco
The rest of the thread https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1326167145718353920
