Mensbilden raderades från Instagram – nu ber de om ursäkt

Rupi Kaur från Toronto postade en bild på Instagram som visade en kvinna liggandes med ryggen mot kameran, skriver Huffington Post. Mellan kvinnans ben syntes en mensblodsfläck.

Uppenbarligen tyckte Instagram att det var vansinnigt stötande – och tog ner bilden.

Kaur valde då att kämpa tillbaka, och la upp bilden igen eftersom att hon ansåg att den inte bröt mot Instagrams regler.

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”Ni tog bort en bild på en kvinna som är fullt påklädd. Bilden är min. Den attackerar inte en speciell grupp. Det är inte heller spam” skrev hon då.

Men skam den som ger sig; Instagram tog ner bilden igen.

Men, efter ungefär en dag ändrade de sig och bilden kom tillbaka igen. I ett uttalande till Huffington Post Canada skriver ber Instagram om ursäkt och säger att "när vårt team tar hand om rapporteringar från andra medlemmar gör vi ibland misstag. I det här fallet to vid felaktigt bort innehåll och jobbade för att rätta det felet, så fort vi fick reda på det. Vi ber om ursäkt för vårt misstag."

thank you @instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique. you deleted a photo of a woman who is fully covered and menstruating stating that it goes against community guidelines when your guidelines outline that it is nothing but acceptable. the girl is fully clothed. the photo is mine. it is not attacking a certain group. nor is it spam. and because it does not break those guidelines i will repost it again. i will not apologize for not feeding the ego and pride of misogynist society that will have my body in an underwear but not be okay with a small leak. when your pages are filled with countless photos/accounts where women (so many who are underage) are objectified. pornified. and treated less than human. thank you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ this image is a part of my photoseries project for my visual rhetoric course. you can view the full series at rupikaur.com ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ i bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. my womb is home to the divine. a source of life for our species. whether i choose to create or not. but very few times it is seen that way. in older civilizations this blood was considered holy. in some it still is. but a majority of people. societies. and communities shun this natural process. some are more comfortable with the pornification of women. the sexualization of women. the violence and degradation of women than this. they cannot be bothered to express their disgust about all that. but will be angered and bothered by this. we menstruate and they see it as dirty. attention seeking. sick. a burden. as if this process is less natural than breathing. as if it is not a bridge between this universe and the last. as if this process is not love. labour. life. selfless and strikingly beautiful.

A photo posted by Rupi Kaur (@rupikaur_) on Mar 24, 2015 at 9:02pm PDT