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Kelli Roman, a 23-year-old mother of two from Fallbrook, CA, doesn't think she should have to hide the fact that she breast-feeds her daughter - not from her friends, her family or even the people she interacts with on Facebook. Facebook disagrees. The social-networking site takes down some breast-feeding photos if they show an exposed nipple or areola, which it considers obscene material. Roman and several other women have banded together to protest this policy, forming a Facebook group that has grown to tens of thousands of members. TIME talked to Roman about the virtues...
...this all start? It was last summer. My daughter was three months old and I was a member of a couple of different breast-feeding groups on Facebook and one of my friends from there had her profile picture of her breast-feeding her baby removed. She was also banned. After that, I decided to put a picture up of me nursing my daughter and it was taken down...
...picture of you and your daughter in protest? Yeah. Initially, it was to say, "Hey Facebook, don't classify breast-feeding pictures as obscene." So many people joined, it kind of just became a network for women to find help and ask questions. I think that's a great result. Since then, it's really grown. We've gained like 60,000 members just in the last few weeks...
...this "nurse-in" that your group held on Dec. 27? My friend Stephanie organized an event in Palo Alto outside Facebook headquarters for people who lived there. She also organized the online event where people posted profile pictures of nursing babies and changed their status to say that breast feeding is not obscene. We had a lot of people do it and it's obviously gotten us a lot of attention, which is what we want...
Simpson, Ashlee •breast milk of is described as "soury" and "weird" by husband...