Was an awesome success if you ask me. Awesome poetry for the cause, a march around shouting stuff like “hey hey, no no, domestic violence has got to go” and other shenanigans. And then also a speak out for victims and supporters to allow people to break their own silence about sexual assault or domestic violence with a specialist from Toledo. Also, Take Back the Night made fox news. I’ll post the link below =]
"It Gets Better" Glowlight Vigil
On Wednesday from 8-9 at the BGSU campus there will be a glowlight vigil (no candles due to campus restrictions) for the homosexual youth who decide to end their life because they feel there is no other alternative. It should be known that this isn’t just to bring awareness to the events that have occurred recently, but to all victims of this sort of thing. This isn’t anything new. There has always been a problem with homosexual youth thinking about and/or committing suicide. It just hasn’t always been talked about. Here’s to breaking the silence.
On the topic of the attention that is now being drawn to the issue of suicide, there has been a large amount of video responses on youtube to this issue. I personally haven’t watched a lot of this videos because I’m sort of perturbed that no one seemed to care this much before, but I saw Sarah Silverman’s video response and I really liked it. Ima link it below.
Welp Ms. Motley has decided that she does not wish to continue blogging on this page, which is totally her prerogative, and she’s also decided that she doesn’t want her other blog account shared on here.
While I’m getting involved in things in my college town, I’m still not sure I’m going to be posting as much on this blog just because I’m exploring other aspects of my life and personality other than my inner activist. If there’s something I really feel that I should share, I’ll post it, but I don’t want to promise that I’m going to update this regularly when I’m getting involved in a lot of stuff right now. However, if you want to view my other blogs, you can click my name and look at my own personal blog, or the blog zombiebears, which I co-author with one of my shamazing friends.
Well I’m just messing around with the Windows Essentials 2011 because I just downloaded it, so I’m messing around with Windows Live Writer for the first time. And I just noticed that I haven’t made a post since 2007. Which was a long time ago, if you haven’t noticed. But I’m going to try to get back into the habit of blogging, rather than just posting about every little happening of my life on facebook.
As well as being a lot more mature than I once was, I’m now in my freshman year of college. My current major is Creative Writing and my minor is music, but by the end of the week I should have my major switched over to French. So far, the college life is treating me fairly well because of the amazing course options, such as Peace and Conflicts, which is so far one of my favorite classes. =]
The other awesome thing about now being in college is the opportunity to get involved with a lot of organizations to promote change. So far, I’m in OWI: Organization for Women’s Issues, and have been volunteering with the ONE campaign in Bowling Green to pass the anti-discrimination ordinances so that it’s illegal to fire people or kick them out of their homes for being gay, pregnant, transgender, or a veteran, etc. I’m also going to weekly meetings for DDAS, which is an organization committed to decreasing discrimination.
Now I’m sure you all remember Ms. Motley. She’s in school also, she’s going to be an English Teacher. I’m not sure what’s going on with her, if she’s working on a different blog or what. I know that she hasn’t posted on here in a while also. I’m also not sure if I can suck her back into blogging with me. I’m sort of hoping I can because I remember it being a lot of fun. I don’t know if you guys know or not, but I had another more fun just general blog with her called zombie bears. But I’ll contact her today and see if she’s game. Hopefully she is. But I better go work on this french project that is due tomorrow, so I’ll post again tomorrow or maybe even today depending on how much I can procrastinate. Seya.
