Lovewhat'sreal
LOVEWHAT’SREAL 2015 High School “Love What,s Real” Writing Contest Winners Her Rainbow Eye A year and a half ago she told the world A world that told her to go back A mother that told her to be a woman A society that told her to love a boy She saw life in colors and swirls labels no longer being labels but becoming definitions She loved herself while they all said no She hoped one day they wouldn’t call her the lesbian girl but just simply the girl. Fatima Tall Vallivue High School Christina Cochran – Teacher Cover art inspired by “Her Rainbow Eye”. Renaissance High School Artists – Cayden Bullock, Renee Taylor and Kayla Bright; Dave Earnhart, teacher; ChalkHeART of 1st place winner 2014 February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Each year, the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence engages young people to join the movement to end gender violence. We believe that youth who are empowered to end gender violence are less likely to engage in violence or to think abuse or violence is acceptable. This is the 6th Love What’s Real publication, compiled from over 3,000 student submissions for the Love What’s Real Writing Challenge. Congratulations to the Idaho’s student authors who were selected among a highly competitive field! A special thank you to Idaho’s English teachers who encouraged students to enter the challenge and to the judges who read the amazing submissions by thousands of young people – Melinda Garcia, Josie Fretwell, Malia Collins and the Idaho Coalition teen activists Dalton Tiegs, Fatima Tall, Cole Parkinson, Kuei Ring, George Kanku, Georgette Bisoka, Ada Jamboretz, Izzy Barton, Halayna Liera, and Maria Villagomez, and the Idaho Coalition staff.
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