http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/facebook-removes-breast-cancer-survivors-double-mastectomy-tattoo-picture_n_2716057.html
I mentioned in class that just a few months ago, there was some controversy dealing with a picture of a woman's chest covered in a tattoo and Facebook removing it. Facebook claimed this was against their nudity policy, however the image was of a woman's chest after a double mastectomy. The woman no longer has breasts and her chest is flat, similar to a man's chest. The area where her breasts used to be, as well as the surrounding area, are covered by a huge tattoo.
While I understand that bare breasts do fall under nudity, I feel it is completely unfair that Facebook took this image down multiple times. This tattoo very obviously has meaning behind it. This woman has been through hell and back and has literally lost a part of her that represented her as a woman. She has survived not only a disease, but losing a part of herself and she reclaimed that part of her body with art. She had no choice but to modify her body and get a double mastectomy, otherwise this image probably would have never existed. There have been many petitions going around to allow this image to be displayed, which wasn't even via her personal page, rather it was displayed on a tattoo parlor's website. They displayed this not only to show the work they have done, but to show the strength of this woman and how a meaning of a tattoo can go very deep and far beyond modifying your body.
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