The Breast Fest Manifesto

It's perfectly legal for women to breastfeed publicly in most of the United States, and throughout Canada. We HAVE the right to breastfeed publicly. So why are we insisting upon Festing the Breast?

Because people like Bill Maher would have us hide...

Because Facebook thinks that pictures of nursing boobs are dirty...

Because waitstaff at Applebees and YMCA attendants still tell nursing mothers to cover up or nurse in the toilet...

Because it's illegal to ask a nursing mother to stop nursing or conceal her nursing, and yet people still do it...

Because we live in a society where nobody bats an eye at see-through tops and pasties on pop stars, but in which nursing breasts are considered by some to be indecent...

Because some people still say things like "breastfeeding is like masturbating - it shouldn't be done in public"...

Because if even one woman - EVEN ONE - is shamed into not nursing because someone said it's indecent, that's one too many.

Because this most important of mothering activities should be celebrated and lauded and praised from the rooftops.

Because it's a superpower, and we need to be proud of it.

Spread the word. Share your voices. Nurse your babies.

Boob Ninjas are already live nursing - Fidget's the first! Check back throughout the day for more links!

And - if you go shop at Silly Wagon today, you can help fund future missions! Silly Wagon is donating 5% of all sales today to the LMJ Missions Fund! Shop for mom justice!

Video Boobers:

A Mommy Story

Cheese Party

Crunchy Domestic Goddess

Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

Fire Breathing Dragon Mama

Grynet.eu

I am cordoroy and flowers!

Mommy off the Record

Motherhood Uncensored

The Natural News

The Wink

Blogs In The News:

Eco Child's Play

Erin Kotecki Vest (The Huffington Post)

Green Options

Breast Fest Participants and Supporters:

2 Pink Lines

Amanda's Blog

A Mom, a Blog, and the Life In-Between

Anthropologist for Corporate America

An urban girl tackles motherhood

Being Me, Just for Them

Blithely Babbling

Blog, Blah, Blah

Blog Chocolate

blue milk

Circle of Life

cribchronicles.com

Delaney Diaries

Fear and Loathing in Stepford

Gnumoon's Stuff

Growing a Life

Half Pint Pixie

Her Bad Mother

Her Mind Lives in a Quiet Room

ImpostorMom

Irreverent, Barefoot Ragamuffins

Lakeline

LaylaBeth

Lawyer Mama

Life Beats Down and Crushes the Soul

Life, the Universe, and Everything

Magpie Musings

Major Bedhead

Mama Knows Breast

Marketing Roadmaps

miserablebliss

Monkey Business

motherbumper

Musings & Mutterings

Musings of a crunchy, domestic goddess

My Two Shews

Not Just a Working Mom

Our Family Village

Painted Maypole

Postcards from the Mothership

PunditMom

PutYourFlareOn

Quarter Rest

Quick Serve Kids

Rain Babies

Raising the Boy... And Girl!

Red, W[h]ine and Boo!

rnmom

She She

Skype Mummy

Slacker Moms R Us

Sleepless Nights

Snapshot Chronicles

Soul Gardening

Tales of life with a girl on the go

The Fish Pond

The Mouse's Nest

The t family syndicate

Toddler Planet

Two peas, no pod

True Mom Confessions

Under the Mad Hat

Veggie Way

Velveteen Mind

Vicki

Watch Me! No, Watch Me!

Wonder Mom

Comments

[fidget]

i'm live right now :)

[Jenn]

I have got my two video's on youtube - and on my blog natural-news.all-natural-mommies.com! :)

[TB]

Great job ladies. You make me even more proud to be a nursing mother.

[ImpostorMom]

My pic is up and the montage. Happy Breast Fest everybody!

[Motherhood Uncensored]

My video is up!

[Fear and Loathing in Stepford]

No video, but my post is up!

http://capebuffalo.blogspot.com/2007/10/toughest-job-youll-ever-love.html

[Christina]

My video is now up on my blog.

[gnumoon]

Hey guys!
This is great! I'm at work, so I can't liveblog a nursing session (and no one wants to see me pump!), but I'm with y'all in spirit!
I've posted the Montage to my blog.

[SummerM]

I've got it on my parenting blog: http://ourfamilyvillage.com and on my personal blog: http://wiredfornoise.blogspot.com

[PunditMom]

As an adoptive mother, I was never able to be a breastfeeding mom, so, alas, no photos I can contribute. But you KNOW I am in total support, and will be posting at my place, as well as the Spin Cycle!

[2shews]

My post is up! http://twoshews.blogspot.com/2007/10/barracuda-baby.html

Thanks again for all of your hard work on this!

[Queen of Spain Erin Kotecki Vest]

You've been QofS's and Huffpo'd!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erin-kotecki-vest/the-boobsite-bill-maher-a_b_67876.html

[Violet]

My post is up too!

http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2007/10/10/breast-fest-2007/

[PunditMom]

Here's my post in solidarity.

http://punditmom1.blogspot.com/2007/10/great-breast-fest-is-today.html

[magpie]

Here's my post:

http://magpiemusing.blogspot.com/2007/10/breast-fest.html

[Chantelle]

I just stumbled across this. How fantastic! I posted a mention in solidarity on my blog.

[Sandra]

http://blogchocolate.typepad.com/blog_chocolate/2007/10/breast-shame.html

[Major Bedhead]

My post is up.
http://thebookishone.blogspot.com/2007/10/do-you-eat-in-toilet.html

[slackermommy]

I'm a breast fest supporter!

http://www.slacker-moms-r-us.com/2007/10/great-virtual-breast-fest.html

[Crunchy Domestic Goddess]

OK, my video is up now too:
http://crunchydomesticgoddess.com/2007/10/10/the-great-virtual-breast-fest/

:)

Amy

[Crunchy Domestic Goddess]

p.s. i even wore my "superpower" shirt for the occasion. :)

[Monique]

I've got my breast fest entry up!! The montage is running, but my son slept in, so no live nursing yet- I will try to add a video later on. :)

http://rainbabies.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-great-virtual-breast-fest/

Thank you, over and over again, ladies!!!

[Susan Getgood]

I posted it on my marketing blog, my personal blog and my Facebook page. I also forwarded to a friend who I believe is also going to post today.

http://getgood.typepad.com and
http://snapshotchronicles.com

Good luck and ignore the trolls. They are the ones who belong in bathrooms with blankets over their heads.

[FishyGirl]

My post is up, with pics:

http://fishygirl.typepad.com/the_fish_pond_where_we_ju/2007/10/the-great-virtu.html

[Half Pint Pixie]

My post is up, babypixie has been feeding all day in solidarity! No pics of us though as my blog is annonymous :)

Good luck!

http://halfpintpixie.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-great-breast-fest/

[Andi]

I've got the Breast Fest montage on my site www.mamaknowsbreast.com

[Tere]

I'm festing the breast!

http://tere-tere.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for.html

[Emily]

We got ours up!
http://redwhineandboo.typepad.com/red_whine_and_boo/2007/10/the-post-in-whi.html
Thanks for organizing this, we love it!

[Mommy off the Record]

I finally got my video up! Had to link to YouTube from my post, but it's there!

http://mommyofftherecord.blogspot.com/2007/10/live-breastfeeding-beware-of-nipple.html

[Colleen]

My post is up today too, complete with photos!

http://delaneydiaries.typepad.com/the_delaney_diaries/2007/10/the-great-virtu.html

[Capt Wil Bill Kelso]

I’ve found out that Facebook recently kicked a woman off of Facebook, because she talked about breastfeeding her baby???

But, Facebook allow criminals, drug dealers & pedophiles to have Facebooks and they don’t delete them, why?

Yet, Facebook picked on this woman, for being the most important and most beautiful thing in the world...a mother.

Pick on the weak and innocent why do you? Thats not America, thats not even Mexico, well Facebook picking on mothers is Anti-American, so you just made an enemy, Capt Wild Bill Kelso.

[caramama]

Brava, bfing ladies!!! This is a wonderful thing you are doing!!

Just to clarify a point, breastfeeding in public is legal in ALL of the U.S. Many states have specific law that clarify the legality of breastfeeding, but even if a state does not have such a clarifying law, breastfeeding in public is still legal.

I just want to make sure women (and men) know this so that no one can argue with you about laws, no matter which state you are in!

[Lauren]

My vids are up...

http://waltzing-little-matilda.blogspot.com/2007/10/doing-my-bit-for-lactation-rights.html

[QSMama / Lea]

My post is up!

Get your nurse on!

- L
http://www.quickservekids.com

[Bon]

my post is up and my breasts - though currently not in use, alas, are all aglow with solidarity.

http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/

unfortunately the only photo we had is really tame and makes me look a little, erm, certifiable, but it takes all kinds. :)

boobies unite!! (or wait, that's what sports bras are for)

[Linda]

Mine is up now too! http://monkeybusinesskids.blogspot.com/

[WhyMommy]

My post is up! I talked about the Breast Fest today -- but here's the post that I'd really like to share. I wrote it the day I realized that I'd breastfed my last son for the last time. Enjoy. http://toddlerplanet.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/i-didnt-know/

[Naomi (Urban Mummy)]

No video and a bit late, but my contribution is up! I even added a photo!

[Mouse]

I put up a post and photo too:
http://themousesnest.blogspot.com/2007/10/post-wherein-you-get-to-see-my-breast.html

[Multi-tasking Mommy]

My post is up!
http://circleoflifeblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/beware-virtual-breast-fest-happening.html

[blue milk]

http://bluemilk.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/this-breast-is-protesting/

Fabulous effort you grrrls - and all the other participants too.

[b*babbler]

A little late, but better than never?

http://blithelybabbling.blogspot.com/2007/10/losing-war-but-winning-battles-breast.html

[Mad Hatter]

Hey,
I posted a positively perfect (yet sadly ineffectual) latch just a couple of weeks ago. It's at: http://madhattermommy.blogspot.com/2007/09/wordless-wednesday-little-early-seen.html

[Mad Hatter]

Doh! Why don't comments wrap?

http://madhattermommy.blogspot.com/2007/09/
wordless-wednesday-little-early-seen.html

[Jenn]

(okay, so I posted this on an earlier post in error...so I'm commenting here, too!)

It's still Wednesday, here, honest! And the montage will be appearing on Quarter Rest momentarily :)

yay - wonderful job ladies! (and men!)

[painted maypole]

my breastfeeding story is at http://paintedmaypole.blogspot.com/2007/10/best.html

[Nicole/wksocmom]

Ugh, finally able to comment. Here's my breat post
http://notjustaworkingmom.blogspot.com/2007/10/show-me-breasts.html

[Christine]

Yipes, I'm sorry I didn't tell you yesterday that I had a new post up. But I am a supporter!!! I've posted about you before and had a button of yours up and was on your other list. I suck at paperwork, even virtual.

http://watchmenowatchme.blogspot.com/2007/10/great-breast-fest-montage.html

[Arwen]

I posted a day late but it is up:
http://spicyelf.blogspot.com/2007/10/pumping.html

[reesh]

I have posted some pictures on my blog...

[Kris]

Hello, I joined in - a little late, though. Thanks for doing this!

http://www.wondermom.org/2007/10/late-to-breast-fest.html

[Aimee]

I am late on this but I do support 100% what you are doing here!

Here's a photo from my blog from World Wide Breastfeeding day of my son and I in the park near our apt:

http://putyourflareon.blogs.com/putyourflareon/2007/08/lunch-in-the-pa.html

[Irreverent, Barefoot Ragamuffins]

I'm late, but I posted an entry.

http://barefootragamuffins.blogspot.com/2007/10/great-virtual-breast-fest.html

[Babeth]

Would Facebook object to pictures like this one http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/zatta/nursing2.jpg ?

It's a painting of the Holy Mother nursing the Holy Infant. People all over the world pay money to visit musea and churches where that kind of painting is displayed in all its glory.
I'm not a mother but was breast-fed until my mum got a staph infection. I have friends who breast-feed. What is wrong with such a beautiful and natural act ? What is wrong with the miracle of life ?
Go on nursing Mothers. Whenever I see one of you doing what Mother Nature intended you to do I would applaud but it'd wake the tyke.

[Anne]

Ugh. This seems to be neverending! I'm in love with your video and wish that I had been aware before that you were collecting pictures as I have two that are spectacular - "Wyatt the Lactivist" has been on display on my myspace page and on my personal blog for months now.

The video without sound is not nearly as powerful as the one with the song - but it still makes it's point - just not as boldly.

Shame on anyone who feels the need to chastise a breastfeeding mother either publicly or privately. There are just as many moms made to feel uncomfortable feeding their children in the privacy of a home. One day all will be breastfed and it won't be such a hot topic - at least that is what I'm praying for!

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