Tag: Violence and Abuse
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Joy and Pain – Burial’s new EP out now
Burial seems to transcend genre – his music ostensibly and originally dubstep was always outside of that, moody, rainy, like a wet cold street, fleeting like reflections, hopeful yet melancholy. Now with his strangely and wonderfully Christmas-like EP ‘Rival Dealer’ he seems to have moved onto new territories – musically but also ones of joy,…
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Dear 40 year old me
A classic idea but with a new twist, and some shocking statistics….and some brave kids. Bullying especially of LGBT youth, but I think of anyone different is endemic now – I guess part of the trickle down of the recession and current political climate, kids copy what they get at home, and pass it along.…
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It Gets Better – video from me
Talking about gay bullying and my experience of bullying and suicide as part of the It Gets Better project by Dan Savage (but sadly he’s exceeded the favourites for the channel!). It’s a great idea in response the sad and ever-present suicides of gay teens- something like 3 times the UK average here, depressingly… and…
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Bullied – a documentary film about a bullied kid fighting back
This documentary looks really interesting, about Jamie Nabozny who after 4 years sued his school and won for not protecting him from anti-gay physical and mental abuse. Suicide amongst gay teens is many times the non-gay average; and the fact that schools tend to do very little about homophobic bullying is part of that. Good…