Waubonsie valley high school
digital day of silence
4/23/2021
The Day of Silence--a national student led movement highlighting the silencing and erasure of LGBTQ people on school campuses around the country.
4 in 5 LGBTQ students don’t see positive LGBTQ representation in their curriculum,
8 in 10 experience anti-LGBTQ verbal harassment, and over a third miss school for feeling unsafe or uncomfortable.
Why are you silent today?
4 in 5 LGBTQ students don’t see positive LGBTQ representation in their curriculum,
8 in 10 experience anti-LGBTQ verbal harassment, and over a third miss school for feeling unsafe or uncomfortable.
Why are you silent today?
how can you participate?
click on the slides below to find out more
download this selfie sign
Visual representation
There are so many LGBTQ artists in K-12 schools and we would love for you to show your skills off! Share your art on your social page, explain the connection to Day of Silence, tag @GLSEN and hashtag #DayofSilence for a chance to be featured on our page!
- Cooking – Food can be a healing and transformative way to engage in activism too! Share food that connects to your identity, decorate food, and share creative ways to connect food to Breaking the Silence!
- Make-Up – Y’all are incredible with your make-up skills and we would LOVE to feature Day of Silence related make-up designs. Get creative and show them off!
- Drawing, painting, graphic design etc. – This has been the traditional outlet for Day of Silence and Breaking the Silence artist expression and we are here for it! This is an activity you can do together with your virtual GSA! Set up a zoom or google hangout video chat and work on your art projects together as a club online.
- Music – You can sing, play an instrument, create musical sounds etc! Share how this artistic outlet is related to Day of Silence for you.
- Poetry (including spoken word), writing excerpt, quote – Words have power, share and tell your story through creative and expressive writing.
- Dance and Movement Art – body movement in all of its forms is an empowering expressive outlet. This is an opportunity to connect what it means to feel erased or bullied through body movement.