Topless feminist at Stormont: 'Indecent and shameful' ... bare-chested speech sparks unionist anger [View all]

The Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland)
10 March 2014
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/topless-feminist-at-stormont-indecent-and-shameful-barechested-speech-sparks-unionist-anger-30078171.html

Topless feminist at Stormont: 'Indecent and shameful' ... bare-chested speech sparks unionist anger
By Joanne Sweeney

A Stormont event at which a young woman went “barefoot and bare-chested” was blasted last night as “shameful” by unionists.

But Cara Park (32) — one of 25 women speakers marking International Women’s Day at Parliament Buildings — said she couldn’t understand how a nipple could be seen as offensive...

...“My nudity was a statement, it was a very considered thing. It was to do with my freedom to be a feminist and to express myself physically as a woman without being discriminated against.

“I think women should be allowed to be barechested, I don’t think that other women have a problem with it. My breasts are my own, that’s me in my natural state and I think I should be allowed to be in my natural state.”.... MORE