Fighting Bullying and Hate Crimes

2011 Anti-bullying Legislation Resolutions for Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Synod Assemblies

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 multimedia Tolerance Teaching editors Bullied: A Student, a School and a Cast that Made History bullied_kit.jpg Montgomery, AL Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2010 40 min. Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student's ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. It can become a cornerstone of anti-bullying efforts in middle and high schools. Bullied includes:
  • A 40-minute documentary film (DVD), with closed captioning and with Spanish subtitles
  • A two-part viewer's guide with standards-aligned lesson plans and activities for use in staff development
  • Additional materials online

Bullied is designed to help administrators, teachers and counselors create a safer school environment for all students, not just those who are gay and lesbian. It is also intended to help all students understand the terrible toll bullying can take on its victims, and to encourage students to stand up for their classmates who are being harassed.

 DVD and study guide http://www.tolerance.org/bullied _blank online editors Accompaniment: A Resource for Youth Leaders from the Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests PDF http://www.bmclgbt.org/documents/Accompaniment-aresourceforyouthleaders_002.pdf _blank online editors Four Steps Schools Can Take to Address Anti-LGBT Bullying and Harassment from GLSEN http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/library/record/2418.html?state=&type=antibullying _blank online editors Building a Bully-Free Building Lesson plan from GLSEN http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/binary-data/NoNameCalling_ATTACHMENTS/file/90-1.pdf?state=&type=antibullying _blank online editors Safe Space Kit from GLSEN http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/library/record/1641.html?state=&type=antibullying _blank online editors No Name-Calling Week http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home.html?state=&type=antibullying _blank online editors GLSEN’s Research on School Bullying http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/research/index.html?state=&type=antibullying _blank online editors Student Non-Discrimination Act https://secure3.convio.net/fec/site/Advocacy?alertId=113&pg=makeACall&JServSessionIdr004=okze8szupa.app332b _blank online editors California’s Seth’s Law http://www.eqca.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=kuLRJ9MRKrH&b=4025663&aid=15441 _blank print Sprinkle Stephen V. Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims UnfinishedLives.jpg San Jose Resource Publications 2011 332 pages 160898118 Over 13,000 Americans have been murdered in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries because of their sexual orientation and gender presentation. In Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memory of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims, Stephen Sprinkle puts a human face on the outrage and loss suffered when people die from anti-gay hatred. Beginning with new developments in the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in Laramie, Wyoming, Sprinkle tells the stories of fourteen representative LGBTQ victims whose lives were savagely cut short due to homophobia and transphobia. These are stories about people who could be your neighbor, classmate, co-worker, or friend - real, everyday people whose love was foreclosed, relationships brutally terminated, and future contributions stolen from us by outrageous, irrational hatred. Told lovingly yet unflinchingly, Unfinished Lives lifts the stories of these LGBTQ victims from undeserved obscurity, allowing their memory to live again. Relying on personal interviews and visits to the locations where these people lived, loved, and died, Sprinkle records the raw emotions, powerful movements for social change, and unexpectedly hopeful communities that arise from the ruins of those people whose only "offense" was to live as they were born to be. Part portraiture, part crime narrative, and part ethnography, Unfinished Lives is poised to change the conversation on hate crimes in the United States. http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Lives-Reviving-Memories-Victims/dp/1608998118#_ _blank print Kilodavis Cheryl My Princess Boy: A Mom's Story About a Young Boy Who Loves to Dress Up MyPrincessBoy.jpg Fullerton, CA Aladdin Books 2010 36 pages 1442429887 Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to wear his princess tiara, even when climbing trees. He's a Princess Boy.

Inspired by the author's son, and by her own initial struggles to understand, this is a heart-warming book about unconditional love and one remarkable family. It is also a call for tolerance and an end to bullying and judgments. The world is a brighter place when we accept everyone for who they are. Ages 4-8. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=4400186897 _blank online editors Where All Can Safely Live WhereAllCanSafelyLive.jpg Where All May Safely Live

A guide to understanding bullying in our communities, how to talk about it, and how to prevent it.

This anti-bullying curriculum is an introduction to what bullying is, how it functions, and why we as Christians are called to prevent it from happening in our communities. It was developed by Lutherans Concerned/North America with the help of the staff at the Pacific Violence Prevention Institute, from the pioneering research on bullying by Dan Olweus, and materials created by the United States government.

This curriculum is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to stopping bullying. However, this guide provides a basic understanding of how bullying works and offers suggestions for steps in creating a congregational bullying prevention plan.

Available for free download

 PDF http://www.lcna.org/images/stories/downloads/resources/048_whereallcansafelylive_aug2011.pdf _blank print Poorman J. Kelly And a Child... AndaChild.gif Bloomington iUniverse 2011 148 pages 9781462010769 FICTION: Knowing that the time has come to take a stand against bullying in school, two brave and compassionate high school students form a gay/straight alliance to protect their friends. And just as they expect, they encounter resistance, intolerance, and ignorance. The strength of their friendship gives them the courage they need to see their plans realized, so that every student—gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered, and those disenfranchised in any way—can enjoy a safe, caring environment. That is what every student, every person deserves. http://no-urnotalone.com/books_236.html _blank