Meet the Muffia!

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Excerpt--> "Dressed as the Muffia, they usually stand in the street writing messages on each other's body stockings, such as "Lose a few pounds" and "Eating disorders or a society of disordered eating?" O'Brien explains that their aim is "to use our bodies on the street to generate ideas and engage with people." To this end, O'Brien also once staged a one-woman performance outside Topshop, mixing up a pink concoction and then vomiting it into a bucket, to protest against the prominence of ultra-thin models.

Their main audience seems to be young women, aged 13 to 18, who have heard nothing about feminism. On the chilly Saturday I spend with them, groups of girls gather to watch the performance, giggling and frowning, running up to take pictures and ask questions. Shalini, 17, a student from north-west London, says: "They're so interesting. They're talking about how the media is making us have an image in our heads of how we should look. No one has ever talked to me about these things before. It's interesting because it made me think about how I feel about not being pale and blonde."