![]() ![]() Kim Kardashian's infamous Paper magazine cover from 2014 that "broke the internet" was compared to images of Baartman and accused by critics of culturally appropriating and sexually exploiting the Black female body. Black women and big butts started to become associated with hypersexuality. Nicknamed the "Hottentot Venus," she was brought to Europe and put on display for people to marvel at her large backside - at least larger than what Europeans at the time were used to. Sarah Baartman, an 18th-century Black woman from South Africa, was "foundational to our obsession with butts," according to Radke. Much of our complicated relationship with butts has to do with race. Journalist and Radiolab contributor Heather Radke is the author of Butts: A backstory. "For me, butts became a sort of lens through which you can see the world and just kind of start to understand how we think about bodies," Radke told The Sunday Magazine host Piya Chattopadhyay. And it can tell us a lot about our relationship with gender, race and bodies, according to journalist Heather Radke, whose book, Butts: A Backstory, details the cultural history of the bottom. (The original article is no longer available online.) Butt obsession goes back centuriesīut this cultural obsession with the derriere, both large and small, actually goes back much further than that - centuries, in fact. Back in 2014, Vogue wrote that we were "officially in the era of the big booty" and was met with much backlash. If all this debate and discussion over a woman's backside seems familiar, it's because this sort of thing has happened before - a lot, actually. They also pointed out the inherent racism in declaring that a particular physical attribute that many women of colour have naturally is no longer desirable. Some critics swiftly shot back, saying that women's bodies should not be reduced to trends. And the New York Post ran a headline that said "Bye-bye booty" and declared that heroin chic was back. Cardi B recently shared that she had her own implants removed and cautioned others against getting butt injections. On TikTok, users speculated that Kim Kardashian had her butt implants removed (a procedure she never confirmed having in the first place). I am pleased that we were able to support Georgia, and I hope her strength in pursuing this highlights to other victims that there is help and support available for them and that the courts take these matters very seriously.The Sunday Magazine 20:03 The politics behind butts are anything but peachyĪfter almost a decade of our cultural obsession with twerking, peach emojis and Brazilian butt lifts, 2022 apparently marked the end of the era of the big booty. Once I officially receive the settlement sum, I will be donating part of it to multiple charities that have helped support me and other victims of image-based sexual abuse.”īasha added: “This has been a difficult, complicated and emotional case. They have been true heroes on my journey to justice, and I will forever be in awe of how talented they are. It’s no secret that Payne Hicks Beach are one of the most sought after and respected legal teams in the U.K., so it was a real honor to have them support me, especially as I didn’t have the finances necessary to afford a legal team at the time. ![]() Harrison said in a statement: “I couldn’t be more thankful to everyone who has helped support my civil claim, which after almost three years has finally been settled. ![]() Hanna Basha and Nick Grant of legal firm Payne Hicks Beach’s privacy and media team represented Harrison. It was consensual sex but it certainly wasn’t consensual filming and it was deeply violating.” Pornography is generally actually something done consensually. A more appropriate term is image based abuse. “This is a gross act of violation by a man towards a woman through the medium of the internet. “This is a case where the term ‘revenge porn’ is sometimes used, it’s a colorful term for the media,” Judge Victoria McCloud said. This is one of the highest amounts to be awarded in an image abuse case and one of the highest awards of all time in a privacy claim arising out of a single act. ![]() The damages, including special damages, and an injunction, were awarded in a ruling at the High Court in London on Wednesday. ![]()
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