A nude photo shoot aimed at encouraging anti-Trump voters to go to the polls in November has received mixed reviews on social media, with some saying the birthday-suited women have hurt their own cause.
#GrabThemByTheBallot features a group of “courageous Vermont women” who have chosen to use “vulnerable artistic expression” to promote women’s rights and sexual expression, according to the campaign’s mission statement. The models who participated in the project vary in age, size, and race. The diverse cast includes a pregnant woman and a transgender woman who goes by the initial ‘Z’.
The campaign’s creator, Dawn Robertson, told the Daily Mail that the photos are part of a larger movement pushing back against the Trump administration.
“With the Kavanaugh nomination and MeToo and Trump, women are rising everywhere,” she said. “I hope that the pictures encourage women and marginalized communities to vote. I want them to know that their voice matters and this is serious s***.”
The provocative photo shoot has not been well received on social media, however. The group’s Facebook page has been flooded with trolls and negative comments – many of them predicting that the campaign’s stated mission will backfire spectacularly.
“I'm voting Republican, just because of the freaks,” one rather uncouth Facebook user wrote.
The women didn’t fare much better on Twitter.
Still, some noted that the controversial photo campaign has at least got people talking about voting.
The bare-all hashtag trend was inspired by a similar concept launched in 2016, #GrabHimByTheBallot, which featured nude women “grabbing back” at Donald Trump. In a now-infamous audio recording leaked during the election, Trump is heard boasting about how famous men such as himself can “grab [women] by the p*ussy. You can do anything.”
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