BULLYING PA

by GOMEZ,MAGDALENA

• ISBN13: 9781616087272
• ISBN10: 1616087277
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2012-05-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

Physical, emotional, verbal, and now cyber bullying are an increasing problem in our nation s schools and within our children s social networks. How can we understand it? Community leaders and activists G'mez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents both the victims and the bullies to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.

Author Biography

Magdalena Gmez is a nationally acclaimed writer, performer, keynote speaker, teaching artist, and the co-founder/artistic director of Teatro V!da, Springfield, Massachusetts. She received the American Master Artist award from NEA presenters, Pregones Theater in New York City. Her vast archives will be included in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Publications include the Progressive, Ollantay Theater journal, the Massachusetts Review, and Holt McDougal Literature 2012, among many others. Mara Luisa Arroyo received her academic training at Colby (BA), Tufts (MA), and Harvard (ABD). A 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant winner in poetry, Maria Luisa's poetry has appeared in the Women's Review of Books and PALABRA, as well as in her first collection, Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras. As a family access and engagement coordinator at the William R. Peck Full-Service Community School (Holyoke, Massachusetts), she enjoys supporting families in their children's learning.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. xxiii
Institutions
Why Schools Don't Work essay	p. 3
In Praise of the Media poem	p. 9
Temps poem	p. 11
American Gulfs: Knowing and Not Knowing poem	p. 13
Object Lesson/The Geometry of Rage poem	p. 18
From a Battered Women's Shelter poem	p. 19
Even Diana Ross Has Backups narrative	p. 24
Pregúntale a las luciérnagas narrative	p. 29
Translated	p. 30
El tiempo de las muñecas poem	p. 31
Translated	p. 32
Miedo al ayer poem	p. 33
Translated	p. 35
Will You Know Me In Heaven narrative	p. 37
Too Beautiful For "Words poem	p. 38
What Burns poem	p. 45
Worn Out poem	p. 46
Storm Clouds poem	p. 48
The State of Gristle a bully performance poem	p. 49
Lunch Time Bullying poem	p. 61
I Was Not a Bully, Truly narrative	p. 62
The Biggest Bully narrative	p. 64
Bad Little Soldier song	p. 65
Playing Chicken poem	p. 67
I Tease Your Momma 'Cause She's Fat and on Welfare poem	p. 68
Late, Again… poem	p. 71
The Mountain Chorus: A One-Act Farce (1982) one-act play	p. 72
Mission Unaccomplished poem	p. 90
For My Student Who Was Dangled Over the Second Floor Railing by the Young Republicans poem	p. 92
For the Victims of the Machine poem	p. 93
Schools
Education Plans for the School Year poem	p. 97
Quinto grado, ¡mi peor pesadilla! Narrative	p. 99
Translated	p. 100
Fatimata poem	p. 101
First Love narrative	p. 102
He Loves Me, Loves Me Not short story	p. 104
School story	p. 108
Little Brother testimonial	p. 109
Dirge for Eliezer poem	p. 113
A Two-Minute Play Two-minute play	p. 114
Alias, "La Nata" narrative	p. 116
BULLIEZ performance monologue	p. 119
Girls poem	p. 125
SNAP story	p. 127
A Story about Bullying testimonial	p. 128
Identity
"Normal Girl Drama" performance poem	p. 131
Solitude bilingual poem	p. 135
To My Two Little Nephews narrative	p. 137
To Tell You the Truth poem	p. 138
Trans Plantations play	p. 139
Making Homophobia Visible poem	p. 171
Confessions of a Gay Basher monologue	p. 177
Yes, HOMO! poem	p. 178
Memory story	p. 180
Brown Enough poem	p. 182
That Boy poem	p. 184
Addiction poem	p. 185
i couldn't for a teenaged bully's death poem	p. 187
I Wanted To Be Wonder Woman poem	p. 188
The Welcome Mat prose poem	p. 190
I Live in My Memories poem	p. 191
Natural Beauty poem	p. 192
On Cyber Faux Power: An Essay with an Attitude essay	p. 194
Resolution
Walking this Path lyrics	p. 199
The Power of Direct Action essay	p. 201
In Living Memory choreo-poem	p. 204
Liberation poem	p. 208
Vecinas poem	p. 209
Translated	p. 210
How Being Bullied Led to My Empowerment narrative	p. 212
Choices testimonial	p. 213
Soaring Upward poem	p. 214
Don't Stop Living lyrics	p. 216
My Son Was Bullied testimonial	p. 218
Power: A Struggle poem	p. .219
So That the Children Will Be Saved poem	p. 221
In Search of the Real Man / Real Woman essay	p. 222
You Will Not Bully Me Anymore poem	p. 233
En el día de liberatión poem	p. 234
Translated	p. 235
Mi intimo ser y mi ser poem	p. 236
Translated	p. 237
One Mother's Response to Sirdeaner's Call poem	p. 238
Make It Through lyrics	p. 241
A Bully Pesticide poem	p. .243
Contributors' Notes	p. 245
Sources	p. 259
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