Twenty Euros Worth of Civil Disobedience

The logic has always been simple: men take their shirts off at the beach every summer and nobody convenes an emergency meeting. A woman’s nipple, meanwhile, is apparently a five-alarm event—something Facebook and Instagram have built entire content-suppression systems around. The same pixel pattern that’s fine on a man becomes a community standards violation on a woman. Make that make sense.

The Tata Top is a flesh-colored bikini designed to look exactly like a bare male chest, nipples and all. It’s protest gear that actually functions as beachwear, which is a rare combination. It was made in support of the #FreeTheNipple campaign—the campaign advancing the fairly modest argument that female nipples shouldn’t be treated as inherently obscene while anatomically identical male nipples circulate freely across every platform with zero consequences.

At around €20, it’s cheaper than most forms of direct action. Wear it to the beach, the supermarket, or your grandmother’s house. Free the nipple.