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On 27 June 2018 the Facebook page Uncle Sam's Misguided Children shared the photograph reproduced below, purportedly showing women screaming at United States President Donald Trump, but somehow through their vaginas: Text on the image read: Predictably, no documentary information was presented to support the claim, and Facebook users were both expected to — and did — take the explanation on its face. However, a reverse image search indicated that the image had been circulating since at least February 2016, well before President Donald Trump was elected. A number of backstories were previously attributed to the photograph. In February 2018, YouTube videos and blogs claimed that the images showed a new trend known as raising your skirt for diversity: At that point, the photograph was at least two years old, and had circulated once again on Reddit in July 2017: Originally reported articles about the new feminist trend of skirt-raising dated back to September 2015, but did not include the photograph seen above: A photograph labeled as feminists ... screaming through their vaginas at President Trump was taken in or earlier than February 2016, and was later attributed to artist Nicola Canavan's Raising the Skirt series of portraits. Canavan's work was not a feminist trend, but rather a photography project undertaken on a relatively small scale. We contacted Canavan, who confirmed that this is one of her images. Further, we found no evidence that either skirt-raising or vagina-screaming had become a popular activity for any reason.
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