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Remember: in 2015, activists who were part of the Oakland-based organization BlackOUT Collective, donned the painted names of Black women victims of police brutality on their bare chests as they marched down a busy San Francisco street during rush hour. https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2015/05/87961/topless-protesters-san-francisco
Demonstrators from the #SayHerName movement in San Francisco told BuzzFeed News that their photos were taken down from Facebook and Instagram for violating the social media platforms’ standards on nudity. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/tamerragriffin/women-go-topless-to-protest-killings-of-unarmed-black-women #NakedAthena
“Public nakedness has been documented as a means of political protest worldwide, in vastly different cultural contexts from India to Russia. In Kenya, it has been used from pre-colonial times to the modern day.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/naked-protest-how-ordinary-citizens-reveal-truth-to-repressive-regimes-134253 #NakedAthena
In 1929 in #Nigeria, “women protested British imperial rule and local chiefs' compliance through body activism, which included what we would refer to today as topless protests.” https://www.mic.com/articles/119294/the-86-year-old-story-of-topless-protests-you-haven-t-heard-yet #NakedAthena
“Naked protests in Africa have historically been symbolic forms of collective protest,generally by the poorest & most marginalised women in society...Women have used these forms of protest throughout history & in many parts of the world, but esp in Africa” https://africanarguments.org/2016/06/10/anything-to-get-justice-the-rise-of-naked-protests-africa/
