tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665598552477308153.post1613850194544085593..comments2024-02-17T19:36:03.936+00:00Comments on male femme: Stop Our Silences.Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147186679298442560noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665598552477308153.post-26434595023073174232014-11-28T23:00:51.999+00:002014-11-28T23:00:51.999+00:0051? That's not a bad number IMO and I'm w...51? That's not a bad number IMO and I'm with you on idea no. 4.Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665598552477308153.post-90853827212397890262014-11-27T11:21:30.311+00:002014-11-27T11:21:30.311+00:00The collected 51 selfies can be now be viewed on t...The collected 51 selfies can be now be viewed on the Stop Our Silence <a href="http://stopoursilence.wordpress.com/about-stop-our-silence/selfie-campaign-2014/" rel="nofollow">website</a> :)Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17147186679298442560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665598552477308153.post-26477811808410865512014-11-23T12:29:45.370+00:002014-11-23T12:29:45.370+00:00Yes, the text was actually quite troublesome. How ...Yes, the text was actually quite troublesome. How to say something meaningful in a handful of words? A lot of people just used the given phrase “Let's end the silence around gender-based bullying”, which is fair enough. But I wanted mine to be more personal.<br /><br />I started with “I was silent because...” and then variations on “...I was afraid”. But that prompts the questions “of what, who, why?” which aren't easy to answer straightforwardly. Instead, “I never realized that silence was optional” says quite a lot for me about a perceived absence of choice. Of course there is a choice, but sometimes it seems like there isn't. Speak? No, I can't. Really. Please. Sure you can, sweetie.<br /><br />Here are a few things other people came up with:<br /><br />“I was silenced because my fear was greater than their power.”<br />“I will never be silent again because I have <em>a lot</em> to say.”<br />“If we all speak together then we are too loud to be silenced.”<br />“I was silent because I didn't know there were words I could use.”<br />“I was silent because I thought I was the only one. I thought that I just had to put up with the bullying.”<br />“They silenced me with "pouf". They lost... It got better and I helped change the world.”<br />“Silence can kill. Shouting makes us stronger.”<br />“I stayed silent because I was afraid of being abandoned.”<br />“I will not be silent because mean people have <em>no right</em> to be mean!”<br /><br />Those are in chronological tweet order to avoid trying (pointlessly) to rank them. But if I had to pick one, it'd probably be the fourth down (about words). Yes.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17147186679298442560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665598552477308153.post-21702626184318872752014-11-21T21:18:26.355+00:002014-11-21T21:18:26.355+00:00Yes, this shit does matter. The only joke: the sil...Yes, this shit does matter. The only joke: the silence is killing me...? Not always so funny when applied to the trans community. Silence can keep you safe - to a point, but it has a cost. That pressure cooker of silence seems to burst sometime around the 30/40 mark, if the attendees at Chams are anything to go by. Assuming they make it beyond the risk point :-(<br /><br />I'm not sure I'll do a selfie - I know, shocker :-) - because I'm not sure what to put, but it does seem a good idea.Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665598552477308153.post-33119582851173867572014-11-20T10:28:51.149+00:002014-11-20T10:28:51.149+00:00Pertinent to this, there's a timely article by...Pertinent to this, there's a timely <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/young-transgender-suicide-attempts-survey" rel="nofollow">article</a> by Patrick Strudwick on the high rate of attempted suicide and self-harm among transgender youth. This shit matters.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17147186679298442560noreply@blogger.com