Fuck. You. Tumblr.

[morgandawn]

Post-mastectomy images are explicitly allowed on Tumblr. A woman posted a series of photos about post-surgery breast tattoos. It was flagged, banned, appealed, "reviewed' and banned again. Even though Tumblr's policy allows these photos

After some trial and error, we have identified the censored image (at the bottom of these long damn post that I refuse to cut tag).

resist-much-obey-little-fan:

@ bloodytales  wrote:

“I want more women to feel empowered to do this.

Scars from breast cancer can be both hard to hide and embarrassing for some women. I wish they weren’t, because scars mean you’re a fighter and a bad ass.

Women have told me after their mastectomy they felt self conscious about someone seeing their chest. My grandmother wore her false breast (she had only one boob removed) around even the house for a long time. (Of course, now when we were taking about the procedure she asked “want to see my boob?” And had to go fetch it from the other room. It was an interesting conversation to say the least.)

Anyway, breast reconstruction can be expensive, and some women either don’t want it or can’t have it done for various reasons.

But you know what, chest tattoos are easily accessible. There are even tattoo shops that give discounts to women covering up breast cancer scars. And women who no longer have a nipple? You can get a bad ass tattoo

Check out:

http://p-ink.org/

Their site starts like this:

They host pink day:

IN THE ORIGINAL POST THAT WAS BANNED, EXAMPLES OF THE BREAST TATTOOS WERE INCLUDED. REPOSTS WITHOUT THESE EXAMPLES WERE NOT IMMEDIATELY BANNED BY TUMBLR AS OF 12/21/2018 9PM.  

THIS IS THE ***4TH ATTEMPT*** TO ADD THESE IMAGES BACK, ONE BY ONE UNTIL THIS POST IS ONCE AGAIN BANNED.

[Image 1: BW photo of a white woman, shoulder length hair with a pearl earring, one post-mastectomy breast with tattoo visible,  side view of other breast, no nipples in view]

[Image 2: BW photo of a woman of unknown age and ethnicity. One post-mastectomy breast visible with tattoos no nipples visible]

[Image 3: 1 African American woman, joyful, one post-mastectomy breast with tattoo visible, side view of the other breast. No nipples visible.]

[Image 4: Two Caucasian women, one fully clothed, one topless, embracing and kissing . The topless woman on the left has a dolphin tattoo that  stretches across both breasts and is centered over her breastbone. The left breast is partially visible (no nipple), the right, shows the mastectomy scar with a tattoo and an intact nipple.]

[Image 6: Two women hugging. The woman on the right: her left breast is covered by a tattoo. Her right breast is a side view with a visible nipple.]

 

You can donate to the organization, or if you know a tattoo artist you can let them know they accept volunteers to be a part of their community of artists. 

Here is another bad ass lady and her bad ass tattoo (found on Pinterest)

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THE ORIGINAL POST AND ALL SUBSEQUENT VARIATIONS WERE FLAGGED, REVIEWED BY TUMBLR “STAFF” AND IN SPITE OF THE GUIDELINES ALLOWING IMAGES OF POST MASTECTOMY BREASTS…THE POST WAS  STILL BANNED. 

HERE IS THE BANNED PHOTO

And the archive links of this post:

http://web.archive.org/web/20181223023230/http://resist-much-obey-little-fan.tumblr.com/post/181331891474/bloodytales-wrote-i-want-more-women-to-feel

https://archive.is/jz1IY

http://www.webcitation.org/74rxv9fiU

Tumblr:  Only double mastectomy pictures allowed. If you still have a breast better make certain that nipple is slanted in the other direction or is modestly veiled.

Posted on Dec/22/2018, 

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#reblog does not mean endorsement, #tumblr banned, #banned, #breast cancer survivors, #post-mastectomy