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Day of Silence, April 18th, 2007
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post Apr 14 2007, 06:47 PM
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http://www.dayofsilence.org/

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DAY OF SILENCE, April 18, 2007: The Day of Silence is an annual event held to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday. In it's 11th year, the Day of Silence is one of the largest student-led actions in the country


I'm not an active member of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club at my school, but I've always thought that this is one movement that deserves my support and finally, after procrastinating for a couple of years, I've finally decided to do it. It's gonna' be hard not talking (several people have told me that it'd be impossible for me), but 'tis a worthy cause.

This is more of a national movement than is something School-y, but admittedly, because it is youth-run, it has its roots at schools. But anyone can participate! So I guess I just...put...it...here. shrug.gif
 
 
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post Apr 18 2007, 05:58 PM
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people did it today, it was cool. It as funny because during class, few girls wrote in a notebook and other girls would read it out loud to the class because they were participating in the Day of Silence. laugh.gif
 
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post Apr 18 2007, 07:12 PM
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This was my second year doing it. I helped organize it (I'm one of the officers in my school's GSA)...

There was a lot of prep work to do. We've been preparing for DOS for months and we still didnt get everything we would have liked to done.... We had to contact the administration, talk to them about, get a note out to teachers in the teacher's newsletter, get posters approved, write out a letter to give to teachers the day before, figure out how many people were participating and make copies for them, make speaking cards......... the list goes on and on.

A lot of people were supportive, we had a lot of people participating (at least 50).... but there were more people who were being assholes to everyone doing it....

I found that a lot of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual/transgender) community at my school didn't participate... it was mostly allies (straight kids who support LGBT)
and I know a few LGBT kids who not only didn't participate, but said shit about the kids who did.


The GSA at my school also organized a "Breaking the Silence" meeting after school today. We had people who participated and people who didn't come to talk about it. We started out with some statistics and stuff... then we opened it up for everyone to talk. The kids who participated shared their experiences, and the people who didn't told us why they didn't. We got a lot of feedback that way, and next year, we hope to do more with the Breaking the Silence event. We're thinking of doing something on the school news (video announcements)... but I guess we have a year to figure all of that out.
 
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post Apr 19 2007, 07:34 PM
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QUOTE(ursedonah @ Apr 18 2007, 5:12 PM) *
Oy, what a shame! ): I know tons of members of the LGBT community particpate, but I know over half of the participants were Allies like myself.

And I wish I had attended our Breaking the Silence meeting! I actually didn't know about it until I heard a bunch of people screaming (it's how they begin the meeting). I just hope next year we spread the word a little more, I know tons of people who were like "What? It's Day of Silence arlready?!?"
 

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Hakuna Matata   Day of Silence   Apr 14 2007, 06:47 PM
kryogenix   Mouth's closed due to AIDS.   Apr 14 2007, 07:14 PM
cup noodles   yea, im doing it. it'll be really hard for me,...   Apr 14 2007, 07:17 PM
Monochrome.   I do this every year.Except this year as i have mu...   Apr 14 2007, 07:22 PM
Wo0yaPo0ya   This year will be my first year participating.   Apr 14 2007, 07:28 PM
WHIMSICAL 0NE   Our school has too days that they do the not talki...   Apr 14 2007, 07:53 PM
StanleyThePanda   My best friend & sister did a day of silence, ...   Apr 14 2007, 08:01 PM
relaxdontrelapse   i dont think that fact that keeping things on hush...   Apr 14 2007, 08:11 PM
I Viddy Horrorshow   QUOTE(relaxdontrelapse @ Apr 15 2007, 2:1...   Apr 15 2007, 04:54 PM
My Cinderella.   I'll try doing it, but I doubt I will. I chat ...   Apr 14 2007, 08:12 PM
&/degradanca.   I don't think my school has this.. I don't...   Apr 15 2007, 01:54 AM
syntheticxglow   I remember my school participated in that last yea...   Apr 15 2007, 02:42 PM
ItsSelvy   I would love to do it but as selfish as it sounds:...   Apr 15 2007, 06:38 PM
Wo0yaPo0ya   QUOTE(ItsSelvy @ Apr 15 2007, 7:38 PM) I ...   Apr 15 2007, 07:35 PM
Monochrome.   QUOTE(ItsSelvy @ Apr 15 2007, 11:38 PM) I...   Apr 19 2007, 04:51 PM
yrrnotelekktric   wow. I`ve never heard of this until now. I HIG...   Apr 15 2007, 07:44 PM
Lo Mein   i'm not part of the GSA but i basically hosted...   Apr 18 2007, 11:41 AM
Hakuna Matata   The past three hours have been terrible. Four more...   Apr 18 2007, 12:00 PM
kryogenix   One of my classmates said some throwaway comment a...   Apr 18 2007, 12:04 PM
relaxdontrelapse   a lot of people at my school participated today, b...   Apr 18 2007, 03:05 PM
Jinny   i never heard of this day until right now.. well, ...   Apr 18 2007, 04:49 PM
electric shock   yeea. i did it today. ><;; was quieter than ...   Apr 18 2007, 05:44 PM
yrrnotelekktric   people did it today, it was cool. It as funny beca...   Apr 18 2007, 05:58 PM
ursedonah   This was my second year doing it. I helped organiz...   Apr 18 2007, 07:12 PM
Hakuna Matata   QUOTE(ursedonah @ Apr 18 2007, 5:12 PM) O...   Apr 19 2007, 07:34 PM
xlilaznchickx   I did do the day of silence today. I had to talk ...   Apr 18 2007, 06:54 PM
Wo0yaPo0ya   QUOTE(xlilaznchickx @ Apr 18 2007, 7:54 P...   Apr 19 2007, 08:46 AM
UHH   i didn't do it but i know this girl in my clas...   Apr 18 2007, 08:26 PM
rawtheekuh.   I did Day of Silence! It was really cool, but ...   Apr 18 2007, 08:42 PM
tainted_angel   One of my friends did it. I thought it was pretty ...   Apr 19 2007, 08:19 PM


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