pink power
Red might be the colour of cartoonish anger, but productive rage is a different shade. From pantsuits to pussyhats, Stylist’s Holly Bullock tracks the political power of pink
When she was 16 years old, Sampat Pal Devi saw a neighbour brutally beating his wife in her village in northern India. She pleaded with the man to stop, and when he refused, she returned the next day with five other women, all armed with bamboo sticks, to retaliate. Married off at the age of 12 herself, Devi was all too aware of the country’s male violence epidemic – one in three women in India is a victim of domestic abuse..
