you know what? Fuck that.
Sep. 29th, 2010 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sbearbergman"It Gets Better"? Swell. No disrespect to the people who have contributed video to that project in with great and loving hearts, but it's simply not enough. What about the "It Sucks Now" project?
Give your videocamera to a student; let them film what life is like for someone tagged as queer or trans or gender-nonconforming at their school. Then fill YouTube with those videos. Send them to principals, PTAs, school boards, legislators, religious leaders and let them see the physical and emotional brutality some of their students are suffering, and others are meting out. Demand to know why this behavior is tolerated, why nothing is being done for these students.
I couldn't be gladder that It Gets Better for some people. I really couldn't. I simply don't think that "keep your head down and try to live until graduation" is really the best we can do. Do you?
Give your videocamera to a student; let them film what life is like for someone tagged as queer or trans or gender-nonconforming at their school. Then fill YouTube with those videos. Send them to principals, PTAs, school boards, legislators, religious leaders and let them see the physical and emotional brutality some of their students are suffering, and others are meting out. Demand to know why this behavior is tolerated, why nothing is being done for these students.
I couldn't be gladder that It Gets Better for some people. I really couldn't. I simply don't think that "keep your head down and try to live until graduation" is really the best we can do. Do you?
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Date: 2010-09-29 10:56 pm (UTC)I think It Gets Better is a wonderful idea, individuals need hope that their lives will get better, but we as a community also need the hope that our world will get better. These are not contradictory goals, they're intersecting.