https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/14/naked-education-britain-teens-naked-bodies-channel-4

#ExternalNews #TheGuardian

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/16/opinions/berlin-topless-swimming-free-the-nipple-thomas-ctrp/index.html

An article from CNN on #topfreedom in #Berlin that also talks about #Facebook and #Instagram and the situation in various other jurisdictions

#ExternalNews

"the funniest thing about being ftm is the implications of the fact that I can post shirtless pics on tumblr now. I am allowed to inflict images of my nipples on this website any time I want and before I wasn’t but like. it’s the same nipples. literally the exact same ones. I just paid a guy to take them off of the tits they were once adjoined to and plonk them back down on the newly created titless wasteland of my chest. they’re. the same. I mean they’re a little phantom of the opera looking now because grafts, but still. I can’t get over that my nips are now certified sfw because they fuckin changed address. the logical conclusion then would be that the boob itself is the problem but it’s clearly not because you can post a picture of a naked boob on tumblr as long as the precise area of the nipple is censored and clearly you can post a picture of the nipple as long as it doesn’t live on a boob anymore but for some reason if you combine them together they become powerful enough to destroy the psyche of anyone between the ages of approximately three and exactly eighteen who gazes upon them. censorship laws are the absolute dumbest invention of humanity and I’m saying that as someone who owns a novelty plastic goat that screams and has watched the movie eragon. this is more stupid than both of those things."

taken from https://tearlessrain.tumblr.com/post/670352132421091328/the-funniest-thing-about-being-ftm-is-the

#tumblr #censorship #ExternalNews

re: the clothing industry

https://smillingcartoonist.tumblr.com/post/651474337214447616/kuragehime-76

#externalnews

Mr. Andy Ngo has been talking about two incidents of "nudity at Pride", one in Seattle and one in Toronto.

If you don't know Andy Ngo, he is a right-wing journalist with bad journalistic ethics. Most of his content is designed to stir up feelings of hate and rage.

He boosted a video purportedly from Seattle, apparently, where kids and at least one naked man (in the foreground) shared space.

He also boosted a video purportedly from Toronto, in which a naked man in a Daffy Duck mask dances in the street and does small hops where, sigh, he thrusts his bits.

Obviously the latter person is not a nudist (and it sucks that he is getting attention for being a nudist in Toronto, when in fact there were a number of other nudists present), but it doesn't matter. Ngo is associating nudists with the "cancerous element" in Pride (for those in his audience who don't know that the rest of the audience thinks Pride as a whole is cancerous). This has implications for us!

#externalnews

English translation:

"In Grenoble [in southeastern France], the burqini [that is, a form of very modest swimwear principally associated with Muslim women] was authorized by municipal pools after a lot of work by the Syndicat des femmes musulmanes de l'Alliance Citoyenne [Muslim Women's Union of the Citizen Alliance] and various anti-racist and feminist groups and associations. In theory female toplessness is equally authorized.

"It came down to 29 votes against 27 with 2 abstentions.

"It's typically the kind of anti-reactionary victory, and progressive too, that I like a lot. A little more visibility of bodies, imposed upon the reacs."

@thildACAB

#externalnews #france #grenoble #burqini #topfreedom

the gang on r/makenuditylegal are variously shit-talking and defending TrueNudists.com if anyone cares: https://teddit.net/r/MakeNudityLegal/comments/tvbkie/suspect_person_from_truenudistscom/

#externalnews

https://www.theonion.com/nude-man-who-locked-self-out-of-house-delivers-moving-t-1819595227

#externalnews lol

https://vimeo.com/689883201

I guess this is the beginning of a video series with sort of a #normalizenudity intent

cool? I think it's cool

#externalnews

#capitalism #clothesindustry #externalnews

someone wrote a paper, with lots of citations, arguing for a distinctive "right to nudity" (and not trying to rely on simply establishing precedent that laws against indecency, and so on, will not be used against nudists)

it's not anarchist, at all (which matters to me), and I think I facepalmed a few times, but I dunno, it's interesting and maybe worth a read all the same

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11158-018-09406-z

#externalnews

glad to hear that completely inoccuous photos of baby's dicks are not gonna be classified as "child pornography". like, imagine the precedent

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/04/nirvana-nevermind-baby-cover-artwork-lawsuit-dismissed

#externalnews

good stuff on subculture/aesthetic: https://darjeelingsavage.tumblr.com/post/669918687233441792

#externalnews

https://yewtu.be/2RjyR4Sw4as

pretty good

#externalnews #video

@nudism-as-an-illegalism #montreal #quebec #practice #activism #externalnews #history

https://laurapannack.com/projects/young-british-naturists/#openModal

some of the pics are avail in a Vice article here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/mv5g5n/meet-englands-young-nudists

#externalnews #photography #nudism

https://zoobus.tumblr.com/post/652458099623542784/earthly-truth-i-cant-reblog-your-post-in-good

there's a lot of kink-at-Pride discourse happening, which is adjacent to the issue of nudity-at-Pride. I have been thinking of writing something, but this was a good take

#externalnews

https://www.naturistlivingshow.com/2021/04/media-relations-for-naturists.html

the real stuff starts going at 10:00, it's an interview with Jesse Brown (https://nitter.snopyta.org/jessebrown/) of the Canadaland podcast (https://canadaland.com/); the interview REALLY starts at about 12:00

#externalnews

https://www.nudeandhappy.com/2021/03/20/whats-more-comfortable-than-being-naked-being-naked-in-a-nudist-setting/

pros: brings some interesting things to the table

cons: too culty? like, read it, let me know if you see what I mean

#externalnews #naturism #practice

#britain #england #externalnews #naturism