Profile pictures speak out on abuse
Use the orange profile picture if you've been abused sexually. Use the yellow one if you know someone who has been abused sexually. Or use both, if that applies to you.
Facebook profile pictures, designed by an Icelandic woman depicting a smiley with a speech bubble in its mouth, have rapidly become widespread on the Facebook pages of Icelanders. But what do they mean?
The incentive was born out of the movement on Icelandic Facebook page Beauty Tips where women started to write about abuse they had experienced with the hashtag #þöggun which means "silenced."
The logo was thought out by Edda Ýr Garðarsdóttir who got her designer friend Jóhanna Svala Rafnsdóttir to help. The two pictures are yellow and orange. Yellow means that you know someone who has been sexually abused, orange means that you've been sexually abused yourself. A mixture of the two means that you've experienced both.
The incentive has drawn a lot of attention in Iceland as it vividly shows how widespread sexual abuse is. It has also drawn the attention of international media, and was featured on The Independent yesterday.
„Iceland is not a country backwards about coming forwards when it comes to gender equality, consistently ranking as the best place in the world to be a woman. But a new campaign shows there’s still work to be done.“ writes journalist Bethan McKernan.
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