This past weekend, the Sunday Times of London ran an article about us in their Style section. It was the work of reporter Rosie Kinchen, who joined us for our pre-Halloween get-together in the East Village, and featured images captured by the brilliant Sally Montana. Who else would have thought of asking us to re-enact The Last Supper?
The Times only managed to find room for two of Sally’s photos, but we’re very happy to share a few more here. (Along with a copy of the article itself at the very bottom, since you can’t read it online unless you’re a Times subscriber.)
We’re so pleased that our message has begun to spread internationally! Maybe it’ll even reach people in some part of the world where it’s warm enough now to take advantage of the freedom to go shirtless outdoors (which it currently isn’t in New York City). In the meantime, we’re wearing our best cable-knit sweaters and enjoying warm beverages and snuggling with friends and loved ones and, of course, many good books.
And waiting for the spring.
You are all quite lovely (especially the “fairy”), but please don’t let your desire to express your right to be topless cause you to dress inappropriately for the weather. I would hate to see you all get chest colds.
Well deserved recognition
Hooray for the Sunday Times! And hooray, as always, for you lovely ladies.
Douglas/Sweetsong, London
Nice exposure for you ladies. Congrats.
This is how a spark goes and turn into a fire. Keep it up, never give up!
Congrats ! This is exactly the kind of coverage the cause needs.
I just hope everyone takes note of the fact that it takes a major European publication to bring light to the issue. You’d certainly not see this story, with accompanying, completely uncensored or otherwise ‘artfully posed’ photographs, in the New York Times Magazine or any other main stream media here in the U.S.
Actually, my biggest concern with this posting of yours has to do with respect of copyright laws. I hope you have the permission of the London Times to reproduce the article in full on your popular website. I’d hate for their request that you remove it to become a stain on your efforts.
We do — we asked permission before we posted the article, and they supplied it to us in pdf form.
I predict you will have a sudden influx of new members after this article. The recognition is well deserved. I think you are doing important work.
Did y’all have to draw names out of a hat to determine who was going to portray who in The Last Supper reenactment? I doubt anyone would volunteer to be Judas, so that would be the fairest way.
Are you kidding? Who WOULDN’T want to be Judas…?
This really is awesome. Thanks for all you continue to do and for inviting me. http://www.breastsarehealthy.wordpress.com ~ Love, Gingerbread
Bravo!
I love the… article.
It was a most interesting view.
You girls always know how to give a good perspective.
Great article!
Well done all of you. A couple of questions occurred to me.
I’m amazed that they’re 200 to 300 of you. You don’t seem to have anything like that many at any of your events. Are the numbers limited by the availability of books and goodies to eat? Are you planning to have an annual general meeting, taking over the whole of Central Park to do so?
What other major artworks are you planning to base other tableaux on? Suggestions, please.
Keep up the good work.
Well, that’s 200-300 people who have every come to one of our events over the course of five years — so maybe it’s a couple dozen who’ve come frequently, plus maybe 40 or 50 per year who each came just once or twice. The number who show up at any one event isn’t limited by food or books, it’s just a question of who’s available on a given day. Some people can only meet on weekends or evenings, some only during the week, etc.
We’d be delighted to have an event where everyone who’s ever participated would show up. But a) that’s unlikely ever to happen (some people don’t live in NYC anymore), and b) even 200-300 people wouldn’t be nearly enough to take over the whole of Central Park. Hell, it wouldn’t even fill Sheep Meadow.
Just a heads up, in New Hampshire lawmakers want to criminalize women. You might want to tell your friends about this. http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/19952400-95/bill-seeks-to-criminalize-female-toplessness-in-nh
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20151209/AGGREGATION/151209117/1004/OPINION
Of course it’s because breasts are “indecent” for children, but just women’s breasts—not fat men and eunuchs.
We’ll be doing a calendar here in NH to bring light to this issue and others the models choose to support.
Here’s a link that you might find fun.
I ran across an article about the noir author Jim Thompson. It is likely you’re aware of him and his work but you may enjoy the article nevertheless.
http://nondoc.com/2015/12/11/jim-thompson-wrote-hard-boiled-existential-noir/
Looking forward to your next adventure in normalizing nakedness. 🙂
Minor nit: it’s just “The Sunday Times”, not “The Sunday Times of London”; newspapers in the UK only usually have place names in their titles if they are actually local newspapers specific to that place.
We appreciate the correction! But for clarity we’ll leave it as it is, since for people on this side of the Pond, “the Sunday Times” by default means the New York Times.