{"id":22581,"date":"2021-04-09T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=22581"},"modified":"2023-11-16T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T09:03:44","slug":"instagram-censors-artworks-showing-the-female-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/instagram-censors-artworks-showing-the-female-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Censors Artworks Showing the Female Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text and photos by guest blogger, photographer Jannica Honey<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nYour account may be deleted. Screenshot by Jannica Honey, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

Instagram Censors MY Artworks<\/h2>\n

\"\"Like the night stalker, but not randomly, the algorithms have been killing. The first strike happened in 2016. My pregnant friend was immediately removed and a 30 days ban was put in place on my Instagram account. I learned from the outset that (female) nipples were an absolute no. I learnt how to remove them in photoshop, but the censorship didn’t end there. My photography was pulled offline like it was the most dangerous imagery a (wo)man could witness. My body of work When The Blackbird Sings was about ALL the diverse bodies\/ages of women, in Nature, lit by twilight. I hid nipples and genitals, but nothing was enough for the social media platforms. I compared images. I reported porn but in some kind of patriarchal (normalised) way, my images were always the ones that were eliminated. I came to realised that the most threatening thing was a (female) body CLOSE to Nature. A female body in full power, perfect AS SHE IS. Empowering women were NOT welcome. What would follow if humans were just content, as they are? The whole world would change.<\/p>\n

\"\"A couple of weeks ago I tried for the first time to boost (pay Instagram to show) one of my posts. Promoting my photography business and perhaps quietly wishing I could reach some more customers. Businesses are doing this all the time. However, this proved to be difficult because of my shadowban.<\/p>\n

I posted a cropped female bodyscape, excluding all-female details. The image was instantly rejected. The sheer idea of simply FEMALE SKIN was declined. It was my father’s birthday. As a celebration of how the masculine body is treated differently, I (as a joke) boosted his birthday post! There he was, nipples and all, in the twilight, the body that was the template for all of us… Instagram (IG) sent me a receipt for my \u00a310 and my dad’s nipples were on display for a broader crowd than my followers.<\/p>\n

 
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\nProblem – solution! Instagram screenshots by Jannica Honey, March-April 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

YES, it was worth spending money on establishing that IG are full of shit and I wasn’t going insane with thoughts around female oppression. The power structures of the 21st century have created a dogmatic platform that penalised female-owned businesses.<\/p>\n

Related Link<\/h2>\n

Artist Jannica Honey Believes Her Images Are Being Censored by the Algorithms<\/a>
\nWhen The Blackbird Sings \u2013 Artist Statement by Jannica Honey<\/a>
\nSocial Media Censorship of Queer And Feminist Art<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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