A nipple can get your art deleted.
An algorithm can try to silence a movement.
This March and April 2026, Don’t Delete Art partners with Free The Nipple—founded by activist and filmmaker Lina Esco—to expose how gender-biased content moderation continues to censor, restrict, and erase art featuring female-appearing nipples.
For decades, female-appearing nipples have been disproportionately censored online - reshaping art history in real time.
This powerful collaboration includes an Instagram takeover, live talks and panels with artists, scholars, and activists, and featured artwork and original quotes from 8–10 major artists and foundations whose work has been directly affected by online censorship. Alongside these voices, the campaign invites artists and the public to share their own experiences, building a collective record of how censorship shapes art in the digital age.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
This collaboration brings together Don’t Delete Art, an arts advocacy organization fighting censorship, and Free The Nipple, the global body-equality movement founded by Lina Esco that exposes how sexist moderation policies police bodies and expression online.
For decades, this kind of censorship hasn’t just erased art — it’s reshaped art history in real time.
Through this collaboration — featuring an IG campaign, censorship history, live panels and conversations, and work from artists who exemplify this issue - we’re building a collective record of what’s being erased in the digital age.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
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Featured Artists
Featured artists include internationally recognized photographers, contemporary artists, and foundations whose work has been censored, removed, or restricted due to female-appearing nipples.
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Talks, Panels & Interviews
impactful and relevant conversations on how nipple censorship, gender bias, and technology shape what are is allowed to exist online
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Open Call
Artists are invited to share their work using campaign templates. Selected submissions will be shared in stories and featured throughout the campaign.
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Censorship History
Histories of nipple censorship in art and media
WHY NIPPLES? WHY ART?
Notable events in the history of online nipple censorship.
See more on our Instagram, throughout the campaign.
Historic Censorship Event 1
Historic Censorship Event 2
Historic Censorship Event 3
EVENTS
Impactful and relevant conversations on how nipple censorship, gender bias, and technology shape what are is allowed to exist online
Conversation with Free Lina Esco: Nipple Censorship & Art
Join Lina, founder of Free The Nipple, for a conversation on online censorship of female bodies in art.
Watch The Conversation →The Breast in Art
Art historian Carolina Pasti explores how depictions of nipples have been censored through art history and the evolution of taboos.
Free on Zoom Register →Artists & Activists: Fighting Online Censorship
A discussion with author Soraya Chemaly and XXXX about the challenges of moderating female body content online.
Register →Conversations on IG Live
A weekly conversation featuring leading voices in censorship, tech policy, content moderation, and feminist approaches to online spaces
See the schedule →HOW TO PARTICIPATE
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For Artists
Use our template!…
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For Everyone
Share your story of online art censorship related to the female-presenting nipple! - May be shared in our weekly newsletter
FEATURED ARTISTS
Featured artists include internationally recognized photographers, contemporary artists, and foundations whose work has been censored, removed, or restricted due to female-appearing nipples.
As part of the collaboration, Don’t Delete Art and Free The Nipple are featuring artwork and statements from 8–10 major artists. Their contributions appear across the Instagram takeover and campaign materials, pairing visual work with firsthand reflections on how content moderation policies shape—and limit—artistic expression.
