Looking at Aliaa Elmahdy’s act of protest through posting naked photos of herself on her blog, this paper
studies the debates that followed. I complicate the juxtaposing between Femen’s tactics and Elmahdy’s act
of nudity through engaging in questions of feminism/colonialism and feminism/conservatism. By examining
articles that were written about Femen, nudity, Muslim women, and body politics, I show that the debates ran
the risk of stabilizing feminism within static dogmatic beliefs.