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Model Stands up for Razorless Legs

13/10/2017

The solidarity of LGBT, feminist and body image activists goes out this week to Swedish model Arvida Bystrom who appears in a campaign for Adidas. The twenty six year old has been the subject of rape and death threats from that usual scourge of the internet, the angry heterosexual male, and all because she doesn't shave her legs enough to meet with their approval. Bystrom said: “Me being such an abled, white, cis body with its only nonconforming feature being a lil leg hair. Literally I've been getting rape threats in my DM inbox. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to not posses all these privileges and try to exist in the world.”

 

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