Malala Yousafzai

I just wanted to wear jeans and gray jumpers or sweaters.

And I did not want to stand out at all.

So I remember packing all of these like more normal college clothes.

I remember going on Google and looking up Selena Gomez casual 2017.

Because I was like, you know, what is like a cool outfit, a casual outfit that everybody's wearing?

You know, both my mom and dad were really upset when they saw the whole backlash in Pakistan.

I remember like on phone with both mom and my dad and just being so mad at them because I said, like, I am here at college, not for some pilgrimage or some like religious ceremony.

This is this is my college life.

And I want to be like every other student.

What am I even going to say in a clarification statement like apologies?

I'm not going to wear jeans tomorrow or whatever.

OK, let me defend jeans and say, you know, there are like Muslim people who wear jeans.

There's no fixed dress code for Muslims or, you know, like it's like this is this is going to be a whole another debate.

Can women and girls just wear what they want?

So my dad in the end agreed.

My mom was still arguing with me.

But then she sort of.

accepted it but I told them I said you know you just never know jeans was like the last thing that I was worried about to be honest I was more worried about people taking photos if I were seen like with my friends at a party where we were maybe like dancing together I thought like all of these things could be taken out of context I was super aware of that but when it happened with jeans I was like okay you know what I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go for everything now because like

People could criticize anything, like people could even criticize you for your existence.

Where do you draw the line?