Toplessness is a right every woman and man should have. This ring is for equality. Already legal in Europe, Canada, parts of Africa, Australia... its about time female toplessness became accepted in the United States (the most conservative country in Western culture). - - - - - General feminist sites welcome. - - - - - - Naturalists and nudists also welcome. - - - - - Don't be ashamed to join. Just join and show your support. - - - - - Art logo from Lilith Gallery. Sarcasm included. - - - - - This is a feminist webring, but don't let the F-word fool you. This is a ring about EQUALITY.
Take time to understand local, municipal, and federal laws. Open your mind to personal freedoms. Prepare to stand up for your civil rights. Focus on who you are on the inside! Reconnect with yourself.
"The legislature finds that breast-feeding a baby is an important and basic act of nurture that must be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health and family values." "A mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby in any location in which the mother is authorized to be."
To bare or not to bare? The question of whether women should be able to sunbathe topless is set to become the hottest controversy on American beaches this summer. In a nation notoriously prudish in its attitudes to public nudity, the issue of how much can be decently exposed arouses strong passions.
The president of the Greater Toronto Hockey League says he's "aghast" over an alleged incident at a hockey game in Mississauga where an irate mother of an 11-year-old minor hockey player apparently taunted parents and fans of opposing players by lifting her blouse, revealing her bra and shaking her breasts "from side to side."
Scandalous!
It was 1931 in Toronto the Good, and a painting by Bertram Brooker was removed from the annual OSA exhibition by officers of the Art Gallery of Toronto. Nudes. Bertram Brooker had sent off a painting of nudes for exhibit—two nudes in one painting. Toronto quivered, shuddered, took it down. Small surprise Brooker wrote the now famous essay "Nudes and Prudes".
That was the headline at least, in the New York Times. Then I read further. Apparently about 12,000 women per year get arrested for breastfeeding in public in the United States. Women breastfeed in public regularly in Canada. I see them in shopping malls, on subways, cafeterias, at my university.
The social-political art of Canadian artist Jennifer Linton is currently featured at the Lilith Gallery. Her work is similar to Cindy Sherman's in that she uses herself as the model on a regular basis. Her works have a quirky/funny side to them. Her works are for sale at http://www.jenniferlinton.ca.
This page is a double feature. On one side is the new face of terrorism: Pyroterrorism, an increasingly likely source of death and destruction for the United States. And on the other side is the sexist, racist and economic classism within the United States that can be seen on television, everything from CNN to Jerry Springer.
