{"id":24706,"date":"2010-04-27T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2011-06-03T18:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T22:36:41","slug":"with-love-to-tavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/with-love-to-tavi\/","title":{"rendered":"With love to Tavi"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest commentary on Tavi Gevinson<\/strong><\/a>, whose Fashion Rookie<\/a> blog was shut down by Blogger yesterday because she posted a 1998 fashion photo revealing the model’s nipple. Here is the Gawker version of the story<\/a>. The model was Maggie Rizer — another story worth knowing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Beth Bagner<\/strong><\/p>\n

This whole thing with Tavi is ridiculous, well in a way not as much ridiculous as it is preposterous. The thing about Tavi is that she truly gets it (I\u2019ve been reading her since she\u2019s 11 when Stylerookie began, she just turned 14).<\/p>\n

She\u2019s a pint-sized curious creative genius, a true artist. As a photographer, her art has inspired me (that should tell you something right there, because I photograph A LOT of nudes, this includes nipples). She\u2019s an ancient soul reincarnated into a middle-schooler living in the ‘burbs surrounding Chicago. Tavi Gevinson self describes herself as, \u201cA tiny 13 year old dork that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a lot more to her than that, and she knows it. She has captured massive amounts of attention from designers, publishers, and business people. Not to mention her fan base, I\u2019m not quite sure the amount of hits her blog receives daily, but I will bet its up there. She has inspired fashion collections, and overall she\u2019s a smart cookie.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that when I first heard of this story here on Planet Waves (thanks Kyla), at first glance I thought that I was reading that Tavi exposed her own nipple on Stylerookie. I chuckled pretty hard for a couple of seconds because I thought that if it was true, that was really awesome on Tavi\u2019s part.<\/p>\n

When I found out what the real story here was — that she had republished a widely-seen 1998 fashion image — there was a mix of feelings. Disappointment, sadness, and anger. I felt bored too, and I can only imagine how Tavi felt. This is as ridiculous as the Australian Film Board banning depiction of small breasted woman, because they somehow feel that this represents exploitation of children.<\/p>\n

You shut down a 14-year-old’s community oriented creative outlet because she posted an artsy picture of a fucking nipple. Yeah, that’s what happened. This is disrespect at its finest. As simply stated as that is \u2014 here\u2019s where the real questions arrive.<\/p>\n

You shut down a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

Agreeing with Jin here: Have these people not heard of Art, Health, Anthropology, and umm Nature? We should just take the crayons away from toddlers all together while were at it\u2026.I can only imagine what Karl L. is thinking about all of this.<\/p>\n

In truth, as 30 is creeping its tongue up my ass. I am finding that I am both learning and becoming inspired by some truly gifted young people. Recently, I find that many of them happen to be in the 14-year-old female form. Putting \u201climits\u201d on there human potential is nothing that I want to be a part of. And I am here to tell them that \u201cThe Northern Lights are not drowning, they’re waving.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Tavi, today in your honor, I shall wear my Rodarte tutu, rainbow Doc Martens, and heart shaped sunglasses; deciding which Jesus button to rock. Either the orange one which is a parody on Slice orange soda, but instead of Slice it says Christ<\/em> \u2014 or the pink one that simply states JC is my BFF. I might even flash a nipple or two and take some self portraits. Keep rocking girl.<\/p>\n

\u2013Beth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest commentary on Tavi Gevinson, whose Fashion Rookie blog was shut down by Blogger yesterday because she posted a 1998 fashion photo revealing the model’s nipple. Here is the Gawker version of the story. The model was Maggie Rizer — another story worth knowing. By Beth Bagner This whole thing with Tavi … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}