By Rebekah Bailey, Staff Writer, Emerson College
As many of you know, Friday was the National Day of Silence. For those of you who don’t know what the DoS is, “the National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.”
Yes. To call attention to the fact that queer teens are bullied and silenced, we’re… going to silence ourselves.
I’ve always had problems with keeping quiet. If I’m told I need to stay quiet, I can’t. When I choose to, I can be a very quiet person. But I don’t want to be quiet anymore about my gender identity or sexuality—I did that enough in my early adolescence. I want to shout it from the rooftops and screw the people who don’t like it. However, I know that that’s not safe for me to do since people like me get killed for broadcasting their identity. I understand the concept of it; however, I think they got it backwards. If you want to call attention to the hate young queer people receive, you should speak up—keeping quiet is the opposite of what you need to do. Nothing changed for queer people until some transwomen got fed up and started throwing bricks and coffee mugs at police officers.
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As many of you know, Friday was the National Day of Silence. For those of you who don’t know what the DoS is, “the National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.”
Yes. To call attention to the fact that queer teens are bullied and silenced, we’re… going to silence ourselves.
I’ve always had problems with keeping quiet. If I’m told I need to stay quiet, I can’t. When I choose to, I can be a very quiet person. But I don’t want to be quiet anymore about my gender identity or sexuality—I did that enough in my early adolescence. I want to shout it from the rooftops and screw the people who don’t like it. However, I know that that’s not safe for me to do since people like me get killed for broadcasting their identity. I understand the concept of it; however, I think they got it backwards. If you want to call attention to the hate young queer people receive, you should speak up—keeping quiet is the opposite of what you need to do. Nothing changed for queer people until some transwomen got fed up and started throwing bricks and coffee mugs at police officers.
Read More Here