Hello Readers!
I'm writing with a plea for your help with an idea for a project that I've just begun, but have a very limited amount of time to complete. MEANING: IT'S DUE FRIDAY OCT 26.
For my education class I am reading, Read Boy's Voices by Dr. William Pollack. It is an incredible collection of accounts from male adolescents who, to sum it up in short, suffer from being wedged into society's "masculine identity" and thusly feel ashamed of having emotions and cannot talk to anyone about how they feel.
It's been eye-opening for me to read this, it's made me consider all of the males I know and I can't help but ask myself, "Do they still, in their twenties, feel this way?"
So here's the project.
I'm asking you (male or female,) to write a letter to your adolescent self giving advice. Consider a tough time you went through, what would you say to yourself now? Are the things that were so important to you then, still important to you now?
These letters will be anonymous, and compiled into a book which will hopefully help adolescents in the future. They can read the letters and say, "Huh, this person went through exactly the same stuff I'm going through and yeah, it was pretty awful for them too, but they turned out okay."
You can mail me anonymous letters by sending them to 79 Chase St Apt B, Burlington VT 05401
OR- submit your letters here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MKPNPH6
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
And of course, if the project goes well, you can expect to read a blog post about it. : )
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