TYBOP3 has created its very own ‘Page 3′ and we are already having lots of activist fun with them; including sneaking them into sleeve of The Sun in your local newsagent or supermarket. Send your photographed back (and full head) with the campaign slogan on (name, age, location are optional) and a brief quote explaining why you’re protesting to: turnyourbackonpage3@hotmail.com. And don’t forget to write to your MP TODAY at www.writetothem.com
Here is a little bit of background to the controversial back image:
“The back image that accompanies the campaign is fundamental to the political message we aim to get across. A play on words, one might imagine it as though the women are literally turning their back on the camera, refusing to be treated like sexual objects; the symbol embodying the slogan.
We envisage a wall of a backs with as infinite a spectrum of body types as possible. By including people excluded from Page 3 on the basis of sex, age, race, body size/shape etc. we challenge and highlight the sexist, racist, ageist, unhealthy and narrow-minded nature of Page 3 and by doing so overtly display the defiant message that we are not against nudity and celebration of the human form – if it is indeed in all its forms – but we are against this one-dimensional, pornified portrayal of women and girls that is detrimental not only them but to men and society as a whole.”
Does Page 3 get your back up?
