A few months ago, late January in fact, I went to a new class. The class is called Holocaust, Genocide and Peace studies. As I was flipping through my syllabus I came across this:

PEACE PROJECT:
In order to combat the "culture of violence" that pervades our society, we need to embark on a radically different education-one that does not glorify confrontation, violence, aggression, and war but rather educates for peace, cooperation, and non-violence. During our last class period, you need to share a poem, a game, art work, stories, etc. related to peace. If you choose, you may present your peace project at any time during the semester. Just let me know ahead of time and I will make room within our regular class. BE CREATIVE! The sky is the limit.

And at first I thought....how the heck am I going to do this? Peace project? Right! But after I put some thought into it, I decided that this this would give me an opprotunity to explore some topic in some amount of detail and present it. Being that I spend a great deal of my time working at a Women's Resource Center, the first thought that jumped into my head was that perhaps I could do a site about women. As I was exploring this topic I came across several sites on women's sexual orientations.

And then one night I was chatting with a friend on the internet about a gay friend of mine. I mentioned this project. Her comment to me was....."you're going to do it about THOSE people?" and that's when I decided on this topic. It is exactly that type of thinking that glorifies confrontation and aggression.

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