Every five minutes, a girl dies as a result of violence. Organizations working to provide for and empower girls: Polaris Project RAINN Girls Not Brides The Clara Lionel Foundation The Malala Fund HeForShe Acid Survivors Trust International #FreedomForGirls
“[…]Until I step into the subway and voices give way to the insinuation of a trumpet slipping phrases like hot silk through these tunnels and I think of you who are farther away than next door, and how we have lit a candle more than once to something we cannot see, something strange and sliding and uncontrollable like this music winding through the porcelain…
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda
