Björt Ólafsdóttir, a member of parliament for the Bright Future Party, has joined the growing number of Icelandic women who have ‘freed the nipple’ on Twitter. The parliamentarian published a photo of her breast under the caption: “This is for feeding babies. Shove that up your patriarchy.”
A large number of women, and men, have shown support for the campaign ‘Free the Nipple’ by publishing photos of their bare chests on Twitter.
Read more: Icelandic women kick off a powerful #freethenipple campaign on Twitter
Free the nipple is an equality movement focused upon the double standards regarding the censorship of female breasts and society’s tendency to sexualise the female body. The campaign suddenly went viral in Iceland on Tuesday evening after a high school student was mocked by a young man for having posted a picture on Twitter that showed her nipple.
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University and high school students intend to free their nipples today by going braless. According to Bóel Sigríður Guðbrandsdóttir, head of the Feminist Association of the Commercial College of Iceland, the campaign does not advocate for women to bare their chests at any given time, but rather seeks to support gender equality.
“Bare female breasts are still such a taboo in society. We just want to celebrate the female body,” she told Vísir.
Þessi er hérna til að gefa börnum að borða. Troðiði því upp í feðraveldið á ykkur. #FreeTheNipple pic.twitter.com/4HmYzJO08k
— Björt Ólafsdóttir (@bjortolafs) March 25, 2015
Björt Ólafsdóttir, a member of parliament for the Bright Future Party, has joined the growing number of Icelandic women who have ‘freed the nipple’ on Twitter. The parliamentarian published a photo of her breast under the caption: “This is for feeding babies. Shove that up your patriarchy.”
A large number of women, and men, have shown support for the campaign ‘Free the Nipple’ by publishing photos of their bare chests on Twitter.
Read more: Icelandic women kick off a powerful #freethenipple campaign on Twitter
Free the nipple is an equality movement focused upon the double standards regarding the censorship of female breasts and society’s tendency to sexualise the female body. The campaign suddenly went viral in Iceland on Tuesday evening after a high school student was mocked by a young man for having posted a picture on Twitter that showed her nipple.
Read more: The ugliest and prettiest words in Icelandic
University and high school students intend to free their nipples today by going braless. According to Bóel Sigríður Guðbrandsdóttir, head of the Feminist Association of the Commercial College of Iceland, the campaign does not advocate for women to bare their chests at any given time, but rather seeks to support gender equality.
“Bare female breasts are still such a taboo in society. We just want to celebrate the female body,” she told Vísir.
Þessi er hérna til að gefa börnum að borða. Troðiði því upp í feðraveldið á ykkur. #FreeTheNipple pic.twitter.com/4HmYzJO08k
— Björt Ólafsdóttir (@bjortolafs) March 25, 2015
