Fresh Zaftig art for Skinny Dip Day 2026
Buy a piece, fund a surgery, and take your pick from three years of original art
Every year since we started fielding a Skinny Dip Day team, the artist Zaftig Pink has made us an original piece to rally around. It’s become one of my favorite parts of this whole thing. The shirts and stickers and mugs it ends up on are how a lot of you chip in, since every dollar of merch goes straight to our Fistula Foundation fundraiser. And every year he somehow tops himself.
When Zaftig first sent over the concept, he described it as a “space pastoral,” and that’s exactly what it is: a pack of green, antennaed beings lounging in a turquoise spring beneath a trio of giant carved stone faces, a ringed planet overhead, a tree growing planet-shaped fruit. He pitched the palette as something like 80s Miami neon, purples and blues, and that’s what landed on the page. Take a look.
You can wear it, drink from it, and stick it on your laptop. This year’s design is available on a few different things in the Planet Nude shop:
The unisex jersey tank and heavy cotton tee, both $34.99, our flagship pieces and the most on-theme thing you can wear to a swim.
A ceramic mug and a stainless steel water bottle in a few sizes, for sipping in style.
A vinyl sticker at $9.99, the easy way to fly the flag if a shirt isn’t your thing.
Start a collection
Here’s the part I love. This is our third year of Skinny Dip Day merch, which means there are now three original Zaftig designs out there, one for each year, and they’re all still available. The 2024 and 2025 pieces live in the shop right alongside this year’s and more designs, on tanks, tees, mugs, and stickers, and every dollar from any of them goes to the same place: curing women of obstetric fistula.
So if you’ve been with us since the beginning, you can complete the set. And if you’re new, you’ve got a small back catalog to dig through. Three years, three originals, one cause.
While you’re in there, the fundraiser collection has a few other naturist designs too, including our “Skinny dipping is for ANY body” tee and the Skinny Dipper Ensign sticker. All of it supports the same fundraiser.
One more thing
I’ll say it again because I mean it: for every photo I get of this year’s merch out in the wild, I’ll personally donate an extra $25 to our fundraiser. Especially your Skinny Dip Day pics. Wear the tank into the lake, snap a shot, send it to evan@planetnude.co, and you’ve just turned your outfit into a surgery fund. Send your photos in and we’ll feature them in the post-event wrap-up, too.
Whether you buy a thing or not, the most direct way to help is always the same. 🪐
It’s that time again. On Saturday, July 11, Team Planet Nude is taking the plunge for Skinny Dip Day, and we want you with us.
This is our third year fielding a team, and you know the drill by now: dip wherever you are, however you like, and help us raise money for a cause that matters. Last year we went remote and our readers showed up in a big way, dipping from beaches, rivers, backyard pools, and a few places we probably shouldn’t ask about. We finished second overall, just $243 behind Gunnison Beach, and raised $3,254 for the Fistula Foundation. That’s enough to fund more than five life-changing surgeries.
This year, we’re going for the top spot. Donate now!
And we’re doing it in style. The wonderful Zaftig Pink, who created our team art the last two years, has outdone himself with an original piece for 2026 that you’ll be seeing on this year’s merch and all over our coverage this season. Take it in:
Why we dip
Skinny Dip Day is a fundraiser for the Fistula Foundation, which provides free surgeries to women suffering from obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that causes chronic incontinence and deep social isolation. It’s a devastating condition, and it’s curable. Just $619 covers one full surgery and gives a woman back her health, her dignity, and her place in her community. As SkinnyDipDay.org founder Thomas Francine likes to point out, it’s a cause with a fitting overlap: it cures women of some of the most severe body shame in the world. That’s not a bad thing for a community built on body freedom to get behind.
How you can help
Here’s how you can help Team Planet Nude make it count this year.
Donate. This is the most direct way to support the mission, and you don’t need to dip or send a photo to do it. A donation on our team fundraiser page puts you on the team, full stop. Every dollar goes to the Fistula Foundation. And as a thank-you, anyone who gives $100 or more gets a free one-year paid membership to Planet Nude. Just email me from the address you subscribe with to redeem.
Take a dip. On or around July 11, get naked and get in some water. A lake, the ocean, a river, a kiddie pool in the backyard, it all counts. Snap a photo or write up a quick reflection and send it to evan@planetnude.co, and we’ll feature it in our big post-event wrap-up.
Grab some merch. This year’s collection features a brand-new original design by the wonderful Zaftig Pink, on tanks, tees, stickers, mugs, and water bottles. And for the collectors out there, the original designs from 2024 and 2025 are still available too, so you can complete the set. 100% of the proceeds go to the Fistula Foundation. Plus, for every photo we receive of someone wearing this year’s merch while taking their dip, I’ll personally donate an extra $25 to our fundraiser.
Let’s make it our best year yet
Over the next month you’ll hear from me a few more times about this, and I appreciate you bearing with the noise. It’s a short season and a worthy cause, and our community has proven what a small, joyful group can do when it decides to show up. Three years in, this is becoming a tradition I’m proud of. Let’s make it our best one yet. 🪐
One last thing: Start a team!
If you’ve got a club, a beach crew, or a handful of friends who’d be into this, it’s not too late to start your own team and raise funds right alongside ours. The more teams in the water, the more women get cured, and that’s the whole point. Head to SkinnyDipDay.org to set one up and be a part of this.