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We like to pretend fashion exists outside politics, that trends emerge from creativity alone, untouched by power, fear, or history. As if silhouettes rise and fall by accident, and designers pivot from bold to restrained on a whim. But fashion has always responded to shifts in power the way sodium reacts to water: visibly, violently,…
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“Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable of is guilty of murder” -St. Augustine, acclaimed to be the first Christian philosopher Is a woman’s only worth found in her womb, measured against gold on a scale? Is she not a full human being with her own thoughts,…
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“if rape is inevitable, just relax and enjoy it” -Clayton Williams Some quotes should never have existed. Yet statements like this were spoken publicly by powerful men who expected no real consequences. Every time another story appears about a woman being raped, speaking out, and still being forced to prove her own suffering, it becomes…
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“It’s like having a flower, or a rose. You water it and keep it at home for yourself, to look at it and smell it. It [a woman] is not supposed to be taken out of the house to be smelled.“ -Syed Ghaisuddin, Taliban Minister of Education, when asked why women needed to be confined…