Blood, nipples, armpits: provocative ways stars fight for women's rights

More and more top stars are joining the women's rights movement. True, some celebrities express their feminist position in radical ways. We remembered the brightest actions of the stars in defense of emancipation.

The daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore Scout in the truest sense supported the action Free The Nipple ("Freedom to the nipples"), going for a walk in New York topless.

The girl decided to make such a strong statement because of the Instagram policy, which prohibits the publication of photos of women's nipples. The girl posted a photo of her walk on Twitter with the caption " Allowed in New York, but not on Instagram."

Scout Willis

Recall that Instagram is not the first time it has been criticized by stars. Rihanna, whose profile was blocked two years ago due to explicit photos, Miley Cyrus, the owner of one of the most provocative accounts, and other celebrities have already spoken out about the social network's policy, in which they see the features of criminalizing the female body.

Scout Willis

Scout Willis

Rihanna

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus

Rihanna

In recent years, the trend for body positivity has been gaining popularity, whose followers are sure that all bodies are beautiful — and not only when there are no extra folds and hairs on them.

Helena Bonham Carter

Thousands of women refuse painful hair removal and post in A network of photos showing unshaven armpits. Miley Cyrus and Madonna, Julia Roberts and Lady Gaga, Helena Bonham Carter and Drew Barrymore show their example: what is natural is not ugly.

Madonna

Miley Cyrus with unshaven armpits

Miley not only grows her hair, but also dyes it. Everywhere.

Barbie with painted armpit and pubic hair

miley cyrus ' instagram

miley cyrus ' instagram

But the American singer Amanda Palmore in the fight for the right to be natural went further. In her clip Map of Tasmania, she makes fun of the fashion for hair removal in the bikini area.

If you remember what Tasmania looks like on the map, it will immediately become clear why the song has such a name. "Intimate haircuts" in the clip are presented in the form of a bird's nest, a bouquet of flowers, a deck of playing cards, even a" Starry Night " by Van Gogh!

Still wondering " Shave or not shave?"? Listen to Amanda! Her main appeal — an intimate haircut can be any, as long as you like it.

Performances organized in the name of good goals are also reaching a new level. One of these is the performance of Australian artist Casey Jenkins. The original name of the project under the authorship of the artist herself is "Leaving my womb", but journalists called it "vaginal knitting".

The fact is that Casey knits a woolen cloth, using a skein of yarn, which she holds inside her vagina. The semantic load that this project should carry is as follows: female genitals, which have long been equated with something shameful and indecent, are not such.

Casey's performance is a protest against the discrimination of the female body. This is also a statement that menstruation is also not something dirty to be ashamed of. To prove this, Casey knits her canvas even during her period.

Another contemporary artist — Romanian Timi Pal-paints with her own menstrual blood using her fingers and tampons. The picture that Timi painted with the blood that came out of her shows a fetus in the womb that will one day end up inside her.

Another protest against the criminalization of female genitalia was expressed by controversial queer icon Merrill Beth Nisker, a singer and producer known under the pseudonym Peaches.

In the video of Vaginoplasty, the singer calls for being proud of all parts of her body, including taboo ones, and in this she is helped by the heroes of the clip in vulva costumes. This way of supporting women may seem strange to many, but Peaches has chosen her own path and continues to follow it.