Bidita Bag’s Powerful Message To Bring CONSENT Back To Fashion Again Is A Wake-Up Call

As 2020 rolls, Bidita Bag has a very powerful message for everyone on the prevailing issues of consent, rape, and crime, violence against women. Urging all to take a stand up with women, Bag, using the word ‘fashion’ in a more societal issue note stands holding playcards in torn clothes, bruises, mangled hair in her Instagram posts as she asked,

“Unless this is the look we want to be in vogue the next decade, let’s resolve to teach our men how to respect the bodies and choices of women.”

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Consent?... what is consent he said...my might is my right. Choice? Your choice...really?...he mocked! I whimpered, I begged , I cried. Rape?...when rape is inevitable lie back and enjoy it..thats what he said...lashed out..clawed..brute Force..tearing..searing... damaging..till eternity... I picked up my broken self.. physically, emotionally...null and void... no feelings... a body without soul.. jeered, taunted, scorned...I am a woman 🌺 Conceptualized and shot by ace fashion photographer @somsarkaar Assisted by- Bharat Jadhav Supported by👇 Prosthetic Makeup Artist- @rajeshjchauhan Layout and Design- @viscomm_ Copy- @stu.much Caption: @ashu_mois Video- @kv2_4 Special Thanks to @groverajesh (MD and CEO-Viscomm 360 Communications.), @groverritika and @sameerdealjeans (MD and Chairman- Dealjeans)for their kind support to this campaign. #antirape #rape #rapesurvivor #violenceagainstwomen #victimblamimg #endrape #consent #consentissexy #nomeansno #stoprape

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A powerful message on the importance of ‘consent’, she captioned the post,

‘Consent?... what is consent he said...my might is my right. Choice? Your choice...really?...he mocked! I whimpered, I begged , I cried. Rape?...when rape is inevitable lie back and enjoy it..thats what he said...lashed out..clawed..brute Force..tearing..searing... damaging..till eternity... I picked up my broken self.. physically, emotionally...null and void... no feelings... a body without soul.. jeered, taunted, scorned...I am a woman’.

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Consent?... what is consent he said...my might is my right. Choice? Your choice...really?...he mocked! I whimpered, I begged , I cried. Rape?...when rape is inevitable lie back and enjoy it..thats what he said...lashed out..clawed..brute Force..tearing..searing... damaging..till eternity... I picked up my broken self.. physically, emotionally...null and void... no feelings... a body without soul.. jeered, taunted, scorned...I am a woman. 🌺 Conceptualized and shot by ace fashion photographer @somsarkaar Assisted by- Bharat Jadhav Supported by: Prosthetic Makeup Artist- @rajeshjchauhan Layout and Design- @viscomm_ Copy- @stu.much Caption: @ashu_mois Video- @kv2_4 Special Thanks to @groverajesh (MD and CEO-Viscomm 360 Communications.), @groverritika and @sameerdealjeans (MD and Chairman- Dealjeans)for their kind support to this campaign. #antirape #rape #rapesurvivor #violenceagainstwomen #victimblamimg #endrape #consent #consentissexy #nomeansno #stoprape

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According to a 2019 survey by Delhi Police, five women were raped and eight were molested everyday on an average in the national capital in 2018. A study by Thomson Reuters Foundation also showed India as the most dangerous place to be a woman.