Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

Monday, 25 June 2012

Woman with Mastectomy Wins Right to Swim Topless

Wow, this was awesome and amazing to read about. At the risk of posting yet another piece on breasts (should I just rename the blog?) This is an amazing story about a woman, Jodi Jaecks, who had a double mastectomy after cancer and couldn't wear a full length/top of a swimsuit because of pain, but swimming was part of her recovery.

She was banned  from swimming in Seattle, US, because of so-called indecency - but in the end won the right to swim bare-topped.

Really confronting picture and makes you rethink what the notion of gender and decency is and how it's defined in our culture..