Actress-turned filmmaker Lina Esco is the creator of the hashtag as well as the soon-to-be-released film of the same name.
Lina Esco enlisted around 20 men and women in New York’s Washington Square Park to bare their nipples and hand out stickers on Sunday.
Lina Esco said -
"What we are trying to do is not about nipples – ‘free the nipple’ is our Trojan horse, but it's about the bigger issues, the things that affect us daily and in the long run.
"We are in no way encouraging anyone to walk around naked.
"It's not about sitting at the cafe with a glass of wine and no shirt on - it's about the fact that a woman cannot sunbathe without her shirt on next to a man that has every right to do so
"It's about a woman breast feeding her child in public and most likely being shamed for doing so.
"It's incredible that Instagram approves of imagery that sells automatic weapons that could potentially murder dozens of people, but they won't allow a non-sexual image of a woman walking in New York City with her shirt off where she has every legal right to do so.
"We started this with our scripted feature film which tells the story of a young women in New York City protesting topless to bring awareness to the extreme lack of balance in our culture where violence is glorified and the female body is still lewd and offensive.”
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