The simple act of wearing Breast Shirt in public areas creates an interactive component that ties into protest art against the biases targeting women for simply being human. According to the community guidelines images demonstrating a protest are allowed however mostly all Breast Shirt posts are taken down within seconds.

First. I know. Don’t get mad about an app. I got it. Let me just say: it’s not just an app anymore. This 1 billion user social media platform has become more than that. It has become a currency itself; this year it made an estimated 10 billion dollars just from ads. It’s the largest online discourse ever instructed.

Social media such as Facebook, reinforces this negative attitude of breastfeeding. The images of women with their bare breasts during breastfeeding are repeatedly erased and their accounts blocked.

My content has never included “nudity, sexual intercourse; genitals, or closeups of fully-nude buttocks.” Still, within a year, I had two accounts deactivated for inappropriate content. Since then, I’ve created new accounts, each time being more and more meticulous and mindful of creating and censoring my content in a way that will keep it safe from deactivation. However, In the past 3 years I’ve been deactivated a total of 5 times due to “inappropriate content”.

I'm not going to blame Facebook for my mental breakdown. It was just one of many factors that came into play. But losing access to my network and my newly created identity did not help my already fragile state.

I implore you to support the artists who have helped to build your platform and challenge yourselves to look beyond commercial profit and create a truly creative social experience. I implore you to stop catering for the lowest common denominator and to take social responsibility by engaging positively in debates around diversity and difference.

Our society is a crowd of "naked kings" owning modern gadgets…

All acts of censorship carry truths about what our society does and does not find acceptable. Why is the human body unacceptable?

Instagram is just an extension of the internet. A curated google image search. So why can’t we just fucking choose what we want to see on there as well?

What I would like to see is a more transparent policy and a rigorous appeals process with access to actual human beings. 

I feel knocked down and silenced. And then I get mad. Real mad. Mad for all the other people who are pushed down and erased, who don’t have the privilege of an audience. Mad for me, for all I have done to be able to share my work, ideas and intimate moments. So I post again. And again. And again. And again. In the hopes that this time will be different. 

I have a hard time believing that actual people flag my images as offensive – I really think it’s an algorithm that scans each new uploaded image.

Instagram has a right to its guidelines, but they need to be more clear about both their rules and processes.

I’m a Queer Feminist Artist. Why Are My Paintings Censored on Social Media? When a post about my work is removed, suddenly and without permission, it feels like a violation — if not legally, then emotionally, and certainly materially in terms of costs to my career.

The only way we stand a chance to have a healthy relationship to our sexuality or to our bodies (no matter the size, our age, our identity) is to be able to talk, create and share openly.

 I need my audience to make a living. Stop hurting entrepreneurs by removing our content when it follows your guidelines and our audiences. Yet you allow dick pics, accounts full of actual penetration, hate speech and violence.

This is clearly not a matter of morality or what is wrong or right when it comes to censorship.

I believe Instagram should also reevaluate their "female" nipple policy as it is sexist, transphobic, anti-art, and completely retroactive.

I’ve never wanted my work to be easy — it’s a means to an end, impact beyond the aesthetic. If controversy on social networks can be the catalyst for viewer participation beyond the gallery walls, then so be it.

Unfortunately we have no idea if someone is targeting us, if this is an algorithm, or both. It would be helpful to know.