'If thin, white models can post nearly-naked on Instagram, why can't I?' asks plus-size model Nyome Nicholas-Williams
'If thin, white models can post nearly-naked on Instagram, why can't I?' asks plus-size model Nyome Nicholas-Williams.I have been a plus-size model for four years. I got into the industry to take up space as a Black woman with a bigger body, sharing my art to normalise ALL body types.
. They’re more than suitable for the space I’ve cultivated on my account - where a number of other tasteful nude pictures of myself are still up - yet Instagram appears to have deemed these particular images as unsuitable for viewing.When I posted about this on my Instagram, I was lucky enough to have Gina Martin, a fellow influencer activist and friend of Cameron’s share my story with her followers starting the hashtag #IwanttoseeNyome.
Now this has happened, and I’m tired. I’m a very strong person, when I believe in a cause or in speaking up about injustices I am relentless with it, but talking about issues like this all the time leaves me drained. I never tire of speaking up about things I’m passionate about but I am tired of this always happening when we’re in 2020.
Ultimately, Instagram as a company need to change and I intend on speaking to them to make that happen. Their staff – and everyone in general – need to be looking inward and checking on their own biases. If your job is to approve images posted online and you’re looking at content creators and policing one but not the other, should you have that job? If you can’t take your own bias or what you see as correct out of the equation then that’s a problem.
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