January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month & today, January 11th is when we wear blue to raise awareness of human trafficking happening locally & globally. Today I encourage you to wear blue, read an article on human trafficking, donate to an organization actively fighting human trafficking through prevention, intervention, or with holistic aftercare for survivors. [...]
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Wear It Wednesday | Halfway through 2020 Dressember
Dressember is off to an AMAZING start! My goal this year is another 31 days in dresses, last year I opted for not getting dressed while I was at home plus I got the flu and basically it felt like I took a week off, this time I want to get dressed everyday because despite [...]
Mindfulness | Human Trafficking Books & Resources
Last month, we talked about types of human trafficking, modern slavery, and vulnerable populations. While we continue to debunk false narratives of human trafficking, today I am sharing some resources to continue learning and growing, so I am sharing some books, organizations, and articles. https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/map?type=ctdcOften when talking about human trafficking survivors, we are not talking [...]
Wear it Wednesday | Dressember 2019 Wrap Up
Rabbit Rabbit! (Anyone else say this on the first of every month? Just me. Cool.) Happy 2020! So December took forever to arrive and was gone in a flash! Like I mentioned in my halfway post, there was no reasoning to how I picked my dresses this year. Although looking back on my outfits, I [...]
Finished Reading: The White Devil’s Daughters by Julia Flynn Siler
For the last few weeks, I've been working my way through Siler's non-fiction 300 page book documenting the story of slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown and the women who fought it. The book center's around the story of Donaldina Cameron an Scottish American who runs the Occidental Mission Home from 1899 to 1934 and her [...]
Dressember in July 2019 | Days 1-15
Dressember in July has been a fun way to talk about how I wear dresses all December long. It's also been a lot of fun to wear dresses (and skirts) all month with sandals and cute shoes! Dressember in July is all about raising awareness, bring the topic of sex & human trafficking to the [...]
Dressember Book Club
Over the last few weeks, I've been reading A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah a powerful memoir of a boy soldier from Sierra Leone in the 1990's. Not that long ago, and insanely this kind of human trafficking is still happening. Children brainwashed into fighting wars that tore up their own families. Parts of [...]
Wear it Wednesday | Dressember 2018 Wrap Up
Earlier this month, I mentioned what I would do if I reached my goal. It doesn't sound like a huge deal but it is for me. So, in case you missed it if I reached my Dressember campaign goal, I would wear my wedding dress to the top of Pikes Peak, and of course, there [...]
Walk for Freedom | 2018 Colorado Springs
I'm not sure where I get my strong sense of fairness and ethics. I'm always surprised when I meet people and I get into my strong ethics they ask if I was ever in animal rescue. Yeah? Why? My strong love for justice for the oppressed and the innocent is deep, it flows through every [...]
Stylishly Shelby 