“When my daughter Stefani was a child, she had to learn painful lessons about the dangers of cruelty and the importance of kindness. She was creative and unequivocally her own person, but her peers didn’t always appreciate the things that made her unique—and different. As a result, they would sometimes taunt, humiliate, or exclude her. It was hurtful for her to experience and heartbreaking for me to watch. But this mean-spirited treatment did more than sting in the moment—it shook Stefani’s confidence.” —
Cynthia Germanotta, president of Born This Way Foundation and mother of Lady Gaga, writes about raising her unique daughter and the Emotion Revolution, launched with Yale. Raising Lady Gaga: Why It’s Time for an Emotion Revolution
The Emotion Revolution empowers high school students to create schools and communities where emotions matter. Hear Gaga's mother Cynthia Germanotta talks about the #EmotionRevolution:
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The Born This Way site includes stories of bravery from young people who have overcome bullies, as well as a number of ways for people of any age to get involved in spreading their message. The foundation was based on three "pillars" of understanding and advocacy.
“We shine a light on young people, youth advocates and community members that embody our mission. We hope to leverage the reach of Born This Way to tell the stories of an empowered, creative and compassionate generation that is working hard to build a kinder and braver world.”— BTWF .
Born to Not Get Bullied: When she was in high school, Lady Gaga says, she was thrown into a trash can. “I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point,” she said. “I didn’t want to go to class. And I was a straight-A student, so there was a certain point in my high school years where I just couldn’t even focus on class because I was so embarrassed all the time. I was so ashamed of who I was.”
The scars don’t go away, Lady Gaga says. “To this day,” “some of my closest friends say, ‘Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.’ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.”
“The Born This Way Foundation is not restitution or revenge for my experiences, I want to make that clear. This is: I am now a woman, I have a voice in the universe, and I want to do everything I can to become an expert in social justice and hope I can make a difference and mobilize young people to change the world.”
Yes, that sounds grandiose and utopian, “I’m reluctant to bet against one of the world’s top pop stars and the person with the most Twitter followers in the world. In any case, she’s indisputably right about one point: Bullying and teenage cruelty are human rights abuses that need to be higher on our agenda.”— Article by Nicholas Kristof via New York Times
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