Day One. 12/3/09

Day One : December 3, 2009

1:44 PM - Oddly enough, I have only been asked once so far about the writing on my arm. It has also gotten kind of smudged, I'm not sure how I accomplished that, but I'll fix it once I get out of work (because as an artist, I'm a perfectionist, and smudging WILL NOT do).

2:27 PM - I think a part of the problem has been that I've been sitting in an office since 9AM answering phones. It is also just the beginning, you have to walk before you can run, afterall! I don't think I have been more pumped for anything like this before. I believe that people have forgotten that we are capable of writing history! We have more power than we have been convinced that we have.

3:03 PM - 3 blog followers and 1 participant! Woo! I came back to my apartment and told my roommate Nikki and she promptly took a sharpie from her desk and adorned her skin for the good of equality. It's really that easy, haha. As for my apparel problem, it is currently about COLD degrees here in New York, so having it on my arm limits my viewers to being inside. I can't wait until I have the courage to start putting it on my face. THAT will be fun. Plus, I know that I won't be able to make it outside and around people every single day of my life (I mean, who does?!), so I will take those days to experiment with color and design, check my email and AIM, and philosophize on equality. I said I was going to do this every day. And I mean every day. OH! And one more thing, since as you know now, I'm in New York, all times are EST. That's East Coast, dudes and dudettes. Just FYI.

5:31 PM - Second participant, my friend Jon :) He came over to visit for the first time in a year, and he let me have my artistic license all over his arms. I'm going to honest, it was really fun. I am definitely going to be exploring styles and design, because I don't want to just copy the noh8campaign's work again and again for hundreds of days. So I suppose the art will be a journey in itself, that should be exciting. The apartment really smelt like marker after that, so unless I want to get high all the time (and lose what little braincells I have), I might want to explore different mediums as well.

9:11 PM - I want to share a little blurb my friend Ash sent me regarding discrimination that she has personally witnessed.

"The first day [at school] I was hanging out with people I met up with some girls and their friend, this big guy from the frat. He made some comment about a guy who was so obviously and proudly gay who was talking to us, And he starts making "fairy" comments etc. and said "I just believe in Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" AFTER we'd just talked about how much he disliked religion. So... I called him an ignorant hick. And LOL he goes "Did you just call me a hick?" [I replied] "Yeah, I did. Why is that the insult you're more worried about?" "


It's amazing how priorities are different for different people.

So ends Day One. Thank you everyone for checking out the site, following my blog, and giving your support to this cause. I am excited for the many, many days to come, and I hope that you can join me in the march to equality. If you decide to make your own NO H8/NO HATE mark, feel free to send it to my email at iwillnotbesilenced@gmail.com or IM me at iwillnotbsilenced on AIM. Keep checking in, and tell your friends! If not about this blog, then about www.noh8campaign.com. It's good karma. :)

Peace!
 -Ally