An interesting new beach body campaign in Spain. Our take: Do you have a body? Are on the beach? Then you've got a beach body! beachbody
Spain’s equality ministry has launched a creative summer campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to hit the beach, with the slogan: “Summer is ours too.”
The colourful campaign’s promotional image features five women of different body types, ages and ethnicities enjoying a day in the sun. “Summer is ours too,” it says. “Enjoy it how, where and with whomever you want.” The campaign also features a woman who has had a mastectomy topless. “All bodies are beach bodies,” Ione Belarra, the leader of Podemos who serves as social rights minister in Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government,. “All bodies are valid and we have the right to enjoy life as we are, without guilt or shame. Summer is for everyone!”
Antonia Morillas, head of the Spanish women’s institute and the organisation behind the initiative, said physical expectations affected women’s self-esteem and denied them their rights. “Diverse bodies, free of gender stereotypes, occupying all spaces. Summer also belongs to us. Free, equal and diverse,” sheThe women’s institute said: “Today we toast a summer for all, without stereotypes and aesthetic violence against our bodies.”
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