Icelandic women have just launched an emotional and powerful “Free the Nipple” campaign on Twitter. Led by young women, it all kicked off after Adda Þóreyjardóttir Smáradóttir, a 17 year old student at Verzlunarskóli Íslands, The Commercial College of Iceland, tweeted a picture of her nipples as a response to her male friend who had posted a photo of himself bare chested after she had tweeted news about the upcoming “Free the Nipple” day at her school.
When some nitwit (an Icelandic one) on Twitter tried to body-shame Adda, flocks of other young women rose to her defence and started to post their own nipple photos with the hashtag #freethenipple.
In a matter of few hours countless of Icelandic nipples showed up on Twitter streams as the number of sisters in arms kept growing. Feminist movements in other colleges in Iceland have also joined in and declared March 26th a 'Free the Nipple' day.
This revolution is ongoing. More tomorrow.
The background
“Free the Nipple” is an international campaign which originated in America and is focused upon the double standards regarding the censorship of female breasts. It is an equality movement and is aimed at taboos about public exposure of female breasts. Facebook and Instagram have for example been heavily criticized for, what members of the informal movement consider, their archaic censorship rules.
Icelandic women have just launched an emotional and powerful “Free the Nipple” campaign on Twitter. Led by young women, it all kicked off after Adda Þóreyjardóttir Smáradóttir, a 17 year old student at Verzlunarskóli Íslands, The Commercial College of Iceland, tweeted a picture of her nipples as a response to her male friend who had posted a photo of himself bare chested after she had tweeted news about the upcoming “Free the Nipple” day at her school.
When some nitwit (an Icelandic one) on Twitter tried to body-shame Adda, flocks of other young women rose to her defence and started to post their own nipple photos with the hashtag #freethenipple.
In a matter of few hours countless of Icelandic nipples showed up on Twitter streams as the number of sisters in arms kept growing. Feminist movements in other colleges in Iceland have also joined in and declared March 26th a 'Free the Nipple' day.
This revolution is ongoing. More tomorrow.
The background
“Free the Nipple” is an international campaign which originated in America and is focused upon the double standards regarding the censorship of female breasts. It is an equality movement and is aimed at taboos about public exposure of female breasts. Facebook and Instagram have for example been heavily criticized for, what members of the informal movement consider, their archaic censorship rules.
