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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?

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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 A newly unveiled statue in honour of Mary Wollstonecraft shoA statue of Medusa showing a naked female dorm holding a hea
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?
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