International Day of the Girl

This is a fashion blog after all, but i have been extremely reluctant to blog or even tweet about anything that isn't of grave importance...at least to me. Being in this heightened state of awareness is emotional draining and physically exhausting and maybe one day i will blog again about the fun things in life but for now I speak my piece.

Today is the first ever  International Day of the Girl; and i thought I would mark it with 2 stories.

1. 14 year old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for being a feminist blogger.  She expressed her concerns over the Taliban's movement to crackdown on education and basic civil rights of girls.....Education is power.
2. The Connecticut supreme court overturned the rape of a disabled 26 year old woman who cannot speak and is only able to move her right index finger. The initial guilty verdict was overturned because in Connecticut; women are presumed to be in a constant state of consent unless they explicitly state otherwise. No force, no bruise, no rape?