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my cousins are younger than me, first week of school there was a shooting, and I was terrified that I almost lost my cousins.
This Saturday, March 24, we March For Our Lives
If you stand with the students and activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the 30,000 people killed by guns every year, we’re asking you to turn out for the March For Our Lives. It’s time we say #NeverAgain and end gun violence.
There are 828 sibling marches planned in conjunction with the main march in Washington DC. This is global, and chances are there is one near you.
We understand that not everyone can attend a march, so we want to make it easy for everyone to participate. Your voice matters, even if you can’t be there in person. That’s why we’re creating a virtual space with optional ways for everyone to participate:
Join us this Saturday as we livestream the March For Our Lives starting at 12 p.m. EST. The livestream will be at the top of every dashboard on every phone, computer, and tablet that uses Tumblr that day.
There’s going to be an @action-packed dashboard takeover with original art sourced from the Tumblr community and @creatrs.
Sign the petition and make your voice heard.
Donate to March For Our Lives, if you can.
You can show your support that day by posting your illustrations, your poems, your promises—anyway you want to express yourself. We even have stickers to add to your photos, if you want. They’re a collaboration between Tumblr Creatrs (@creatrs) and our friends at Kanvas.
They’re in your app now. Make sure to tag your posts with #NeverAgain so everyone can see your support.
This is it, Tumblr. This is how change happens. When people ask #WhatWillYouDo, you can point them to Saturday, March 24; To the march you participated in, the money you donated, or the messages you spread across the globe with social media.
Good luck and stay safe.
tw: school shootings, gun violence (mentioned)
i forgot to include this in my last post, but i would like to stress just how much schools (especially in texas) have practiced active shooting drills. i did it every year from k-11 and will be doing it next year. they start showing us an “i love you” video (made by the parents of a girl who had been shot during a school shooting) in the third grade. they show a lower level more “age appropriate” one in k-2. even in the k-2 years we had kids, teachers, and other staff that were assigned to close blinds, lock doors, run into the halls and sweep for kids before inevitably having to close the doors leaving kids in restrooms. kids caught outside of a class would either have lock themself in a stall and stand on a toilet seat or run out of the building into the neighborhood that bordered the school. in sixth grade i had a teacher that would tell us that whenever a shooter comes into school locked doors certainly help but they don’t always work so we needed to make sure to keep something sharp or barricade the class. at the ages of 11 and 12 we had plans on who would do what if a shooter got in the room. mine was to grab the scissors and flip over the desks and chairs in order to attempt to trip the shooter. it was a futile attempt to feel safe when thinking about that, but it was helped us feel like maybe we would be okay whenever it may happen. at the age of 15 i was helping my friend through a panic attack when they had an unannounced drill and we were ushered into a librarians room kids weren’t allowed in. now at 16-18 we all have grown accustomed to it (not that we weren’t before but now we’re old enough to know that if it happens it happens and we will do all we can to stop them because our state government won’t) and we sit and play truth or dare or listen to music together while we wait for an administrator to come knock on the door. i have no doubt that even if my teachers aren’t fond of me they would stop at nothing to protect those that they teach and now as old as we are, we know we would do the same. it shouldn’t be this way. i shouldn’t know this information for years and just now reach the age to understand and speak out on it. again i am still a minor and yet my classmates, friends, and teachers are familiar with the idea that one day we may go into school and never go out. it sounds dramatic because it is a very serious issue that shouldn’t be political. it shouldn’t be an issue to restrict access to the object that makes kids feel the need to try and decide if they wanna risk getting up to close the windows, knowing they may be shot. again my love and condolences to those in uvalde and those victim to school shootings and gun violence previously. please look into ways to support the people at uvalde at this time. protect the kids of texas who are born and making decisions like the ones i listed above.