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Aboriginal woman with a 'sword-club' or 'rainforest sword', Australia, ~1880
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Why the US-style censorship on historic content?
No, she also invented the tube top.
this is as far as my internet sleuthing is going for now. It has the photographers name as well as the company. I found some of his other works, but I can't find an unedited version of this piece. Really sickens me when people censor art
I found this one as well: https://piefed.social/comment/10556273
idk, this is just how I found it.
Ah okay! Well, the question remains, but I guess I am not going to find the answer :) Thanks for clarifying!
Maybe they're from The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and/or from TROVE, many pictures there are restricted or not digitally available.
that's bullshit.
Reminds me of Islamic theocracies that censor sports because sharia law.
This, is equally bad, if not worse.
This is a staged studio photo that both exotcises and eroticises a woman from a group of people were and are still actively being genocided, but dorks on here are all why can't i see her tits tho
My issue is with censoring nudity, especially considering the topic of this community. There is nothing inherently sexual with our naked bodies, I think censoring only strengthens the idea of that it is.
I agree that we need to respect the original people of Australia (and other places for that matter), and acknowledge the atrocities committed towards them and the ongoing harm that results from it[^1].
My belief is that an accompanying message, like they do (and are obliged to?) in Australia, to acknowledge the Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders, is more helpful than censoring parts of human beings.
[^1]: Examples of such a message can be found here: https://aiatsis.gov.au/, and here: https://trove.nla.gov.au/
Or ykno, it's more like "I can't believe someone was so pissed off that they showed a nipple in a piece of art that they went and defaced the art entirely"
It's like me saying that I don't like your comment bc it hurt my wittle feelings, so I think I'll just change your comment to "uwu yes daddy" because that makes me feel better. It's stupid fucking Americans and prudes having to take a piece of art with a message and make it about them, as always. Fucking prudes can't just let things be. If you're deathly afraid of a nipple and think it can unravel the very moral fabric of society and that's a good reason to tell women they deserve less rights than men, I'm willing to spend a decent section of my day taking time out to spite you.