So, the Day of Silence…

I suppose I inadvertently participated, since I didn’t interact with anyone today nor can I actually talk. Regardless, I wouldn’t have participated anyway. I hate to be one of those people that tries to shoot down good intentions, but I think I speak for a lot of QUILTBAG folk when I say that I was silent for far too long, and I wish someone had spoken to me or had spoken with me. The Day of Silence, to me, is a means for people who aren’t quite comfortable with lashing out against the bull shit of society to take a passive, and evasive approach at solidarity. (To be quite honest, this is more apparent in the “hetero community” than in the “gay community.”) 

Maybe it would be more effective if we called it the Day of Loudness or maybe just Gay-Straight Alliance day…something that speaks for the joining of forces to combat silence and bullying. Take the It Gets Better Campaign for example, or when we all wore purple in October; I think those heavily broadcast and displayed efforts were far more effective than everyone playing Mum’s-the-Word.

We need to find our voices and speak for human rights, protect the oppressed, and to sing songs of celebration and victory.