‘All bodies are beach bodies’: Spain’s equality ministry launches summer campaign

Inclusive promotion urges women to ‘toast a summer for all, without stereotypes’

By Samantha Lock | 28 July 2022

THE GUARDIAN — 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.

The Spanish equality ministry’s summer campaign says: ‘Summer is ours too. Enjoy it how, where and with whomever you want.’ Illustration: The Ministry of Equality

“All bodies are beach bodies,” Ione Belarra, the leader of Podemos who serves as social rights minister in Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government, said. “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,” she tweeted on Wednesday alongside an image from the campaign.

The women’s institute said: “Today we toast a summer for all, without stereotypes and aesthetic violence against our bodies.” […]

2 Comments on ‘All bodies are beach bodies’: Spain’s equality ministry launches summer campaign

Post a Comment

Winter Watch

Discover more from Winter Watch

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading