there will be no music posted today. there will only be thoughts. i posted earlier and decided to pull that and repost later. i am honoring the day of silence today. it is, after all, for the youth.
i have personal experience with violence aimed at lgbt youth. and i have recently re-experienced that same violence as an adult but by another community member. it creates havoc and pain and is unnecessary. stop the violence. see "coming out of the dark" posted on March 15.
The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This year’s event will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed Feb. 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.
for more see dayofsilence.org
after today, i hope i can speak up more if i see or hear these things happening around me. it's the world i leave behind me that matters, not the one i came into.
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I didn't realize today was the day of silence. I'm fairly insulated from that here at my mother's place. It is disturbingly interesting, though, that my kids had the day off from school. I wonder if it's just coincidence or by design that the school district planned a day off. The teachers didn't work today either, they tell me.
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