Gandhi burned registration cards in South Africa, straphangers boycotted the buses in Montgomery, Ala., Pussy Riot rotted in a Russian jail, and now we’re watching another great movement unfold, one that strives to liberate that most oppressed group of all: the millions of female nipples languishing in the captivity of bandeaus, camisoles and brassieres.
At least that’s the impression I got at the IFC Center Thursday night during a screening of Free the Nipple, a new film from first-time director Lina Esco. It’s a narrative film, but also part of a larger battle that’s raging in the streets of New York, where female toplessness is legal but still policed, and on the risque social media feeds of free-spirited celebrities: Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Cara Delevingne are all—surprise!—foot soldiers in the Free the Nipple army
http://observer.com/2014/12/the-boob-rebellion-ladies-ditch-tops-for-the-free-the-nipple-movement/
At least that’s the impression I got at the IFC Center Thursday night during a screening of Free the Nipple, a new film from first-time director Lina Esco. It’s a narrative film, but also part of a larger battle that’s raging in the streets of New York, where female toplessness is legal but still policed, and on the risque social media feeds of free-spirited celebrities: Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Cara Delevingne are all—surprise!—foot soldiers in the Free the Nipple army
http://observer.com/2014/12/the-boob-rebellion-ladies-ditch-tops-for-the-free-the-nipple-movement/
