One fewer journalist in Uvalde today is no bad thing, we thought. It’s one reason the Monitor chose last week to visit.
Pedestrians glanced at the memorial as they continued about their day.“Everyone is walking on eggshells,” one local told me last week. Twenty-one white crosses surround the fountain downtown, decorated with stuffed animals and superhero action figures that filled my eyes with tears. Twenty-one white crosses are staked in front of a “Welcome to Uvalde” sign.
The town I visited last week was quiet, but eerie. Now make it unexpected, add a global media frenzy and a heavy dose of politics, and multiply it by a population of 15,000, and you can begin to imagine what the last 12 months have been like in Uvalde.The town was shellshocked when I visited a year ago. It has been a difficult, surreal year for a town that, like so many others, never thought it would be anything other than a quiet, anonymous town. Feel the love, find self-acceptance and let your freak flag fly.Grief is a journey – and a long, complicated one at that.Uvalde, Texas, will never be the same after the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School last May. His perspective-shifting book is an antidote to confusion, fear and repression. He is the founder of Sink the Pink, the largest LGBTQ+ collective in the UK, whose events offer a portal to another world where anything is possible and everyone is welcome. With each of his witty commandments, you will learn why and how to reject the status quo to live your life your way. lifelong outsider and inclusivity campaigner Glyn Fussell challenges such toxic notions, forces you to question the powers at play and confront internalised demons. Sink the Pink's Manifesto for Misfits is dedicated to you: from finding your power to dreaming big, owning your space to chasing your joy, embracing your uniqueness to broadening your narrative, each cis-tem-crashing chapter will revolutionise how you see yourself, no matter where you are on your journey.ĭiscover within thinkpieces, reflective exercises and living testimony from a brave community of self-proclaimed eccentrics, freaks, geeks, rebels and oddballs – including Jade Thirlwall (Little Mix), Yungblud and Spice Girl Mel C – to remind yourself that you are not alone and weirdos win in the end.
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