This past June, I held a "Blog Against Bullying Blog Party" and for the first year it was an awesome success! Over 22 bloggers participated and we raised over $200 to donate to BullyPolice.org. If you missed this year's Blog Against Bullying Blog Party, be on the lookout next May when I announce the details for Blog Against Bullying 2011.
Over the past couple of weeks bullying has, once again, been a major source of news. Four young men, Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Billy Lucas, and Asher Brown, took their lives because of anti-gay bullying. Four amazing lives that could have been spared had at least one person turned to the bully and said, "Enough is enough."
Can just one person stop bullying? It's hard to say. However, if I'm one person who says, "Enough is enough" and you're one person who says, "Enough is enough" and the next blogger is one person and the next blogger and the next and the next... Eventually, we won't be just one person. We'll be a united voice shouting out to all the bullies, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"
I'm going to start that snowball. I'm saying enough is enough and I'm choosing love. I hope you'll join me.
The month of October is National Bullying Prevention Month and 10.20.10 is the day that bullying prevention is heard around the world. Between now and 10.20.10 add your voice to the crowd. Show your support and unite against bullying.
I'm teaming up with the fabulous and talented Michelle at Daphne & Josephine Custom Hand Stamped Jewelry to encourage all of you to participate. Michelle is offering up her gorgeous necklace "Choose Love" to one of you.
Michelle is one more person who is saying, "Enough is enough." This necklace was created specifically to raise bullying awareness. As the mother of a beautiful daughter, Michelle wants a better world where Isla can grow up without the possibility of persecution for being lesbian/gay/bisexual. For every necklace sold, Michelle is donating $5.00 to The Trevor Project, the leading organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention amongst lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered and questioning youth.
Mandatory Entry:
Leave a comment on this post and tell us how you have been affected by bullying. (Were you bullied? Were you a bully? Did you ever witness bullying?)
Additional (and optional) Entries:
(You can let me know about your additional entries in separate comments or put all of them in one comment.)
3 Entries:
Visit Michelle's Etsy store and come back here and let me know what other item of hers is a must-have.
5 Entries:
Blog about National Bullying Prevention Month and this giveaway on your blog.
1 Entry per $1:
Donate to The Trevor Project using the ChipIn donation link to the right.
2 Entries:
Follow @TrevorProject on Twitter
2 Entries:
Like The Trevor Project on Facebook
1 Entry per Tweet or Facebook:
Twitter the following: Choose love, not bullying. Join @ampinkparkbench in saying "Enough is enough" & you could win this necklace: http://tinyurl.com/39936jw
1 Entry per Tweet or Facebook:
Twitter the following: Donate to The Trevor Project & choose love, not bullying. Join @ampinkparkbench & you could win this necklace: http://tinyurl.com/39936jw
1 Entry per Tweet or Facebook:
Twitter anything else that promotes National Bullying Prevention Month or The Trevor Project or Choosing Love. You much include this link in your tweet: http://tinyurl.com/39936jw
This giveaway begins the moment I hit publish and ends 10.20.10 at 11:59 PM EST and is open to everyone, everywhere.
For more information on bullying, bullying prevention, and way you can help visit: The Ellen Degeneres Show, CNN.com, and Pacer Center.
I hope you'll join us and be one more person to help prevent bullying. Let the victims of bullying know that you choose love.
I hope you'll join us and be one more person to help prevent bullying. Let the victims of bullying know that you choose love.
11 comments:
I was bullied for a while my senior year in high school by people I had considered my best friends for several years. It sucked and they made my life hell for a short time. But what's worse than being bullied yourself? In my opinion, watching my best friend..my forever friend, my big sister, being bullied. But not only did she make it out in one piece, she made it out an amazing, strong, inspirational woman who I look up to every day.
"There is no better friend than a sister. There is not better sister than you." <3
I also:
Liked the Trevor Project on Facebook. Posted about Choosing Love, not Bullying. Posted about The Trevor Project. I donated $50 to the Trevor Project and I checked out Daphne Josephine Custom Hand stamped jewelry and I'm pretty sure I'm going to purchase the 'I Heart Necklace' because I absolutely looooove it!! I let you tally it all up :)
This is a great entry! Everyone has been affected by bullying at some point. I even remember when I was 12 and AIM became popular. A girl snuck onto my account pretending to be me so she could IM others and say nasty things to other girls from our class. The next day, I had to do some damage control.
I am just going to ahead and purchase one of those necklaces! Everything on that site is great though.
All my best friends are gay guys, ever since junior high (I'm over 40 now, by the way). So how I personally have been effected is that, as a good "fairy princess," I have confronted more than one jock/jerk who has picked on a friend, and have had more than a few tears on my shoulder from friends afraid to go to school. These recently publicized bullyings and suicides are so alarming to me that I am urging my friends to make It Gets Better videos so people know they're not alone, and our local LGBT Film Festival is a fundraiser for a youth community center.
Other than the awesome CHOOSE LOVE stuff, I like this one a lot: http://www.etsy.com/listing/56916541/two-of-hearts-necklace
Followed @TrevorProject (and you) on twitter... frmo @Stockannette
Also tweeted.
Great post and I think I may blog about my bullying moments from middle school in the next few days. It was awful and made life a living hell during that time.
I hope this won't hurt my chance of winning, but I was the bully! The school principal even had to have a chat with me once after I forced a girl to eat grass in order to be my friend (after which, I made fun of her) Luckily, it was just a phase (albeit a kinda long phase) that I grew out of :)
I'm following The Trevor Project on Twitter entry #1
I'm not sure if anyone else had this problem, but the link I clicked in this post didn't work to get to The Trevor Project :p
Twitter entry #2 :)
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