Wednesday, August 29, 2007

"Fagbug" – Hate crime inspires student to activism


One day last April, Erin Davies woke up to find red spray paint on her VW Bug with the words "fag" and "u r gay" on her hood and driver side window. Despite immediate shock and embarassment, she quickly decided to embrace what happened and to keep driving her vandalized car to increase public awareness about homophobia and hatred that exists in our society.


Erin is now driving her "fagbug" on a cross country trip, taking it to different communities. She is also producing a fagbug documentary to shed light on the issues of intolerance.


I think it's a really cool story of student activism. If you have a chance, visit her website and give her a message of support. Maybe even invite her to your school. Courage deserves encouragement.