Revealing My Knee at 20K

It’s up to each generation of women to destigmatize a new piece of the female form. In the 1920s, it was the knee. In the 2010s, bathed in the glowing optimism of the Obama administration, we pushed all the way to the nipple. Whether or not the nipple has been truly freed is still up for debate. We unpack 1920s flapper fashion and the knee-painting fad that drew attention to shorter hemlines and discarded stockings, and the 2010s #FreeTheNipple movement that demanded equal rights for men’s and women’s chests to go barePlus: the stigma that surrounding the early days of ASMR, big light discourse, and the fake doctors we’ve seen lately.