Did you wear pink yesterday?

Yesterday Feb 25 was Pink Shirt Day 2015.  We wear pink shirts / t-shirts to fight bullying on Pink Shirt Day.  My friends told me Asian guys wear pink dress shirts to work all the time.  But in North America, pink is considered a girl's colour.  This is not a cultural thing.  This is a concept created by toy manufactures to sell more toys.

In 2007, a grade nine Nova Scotia boy got bullied just because he wore a pink t-shirt during the first day of school.  Isn't it sad that we can't wear any colour we want to?  Two Nova Scotia high school students stood up for this grade nine boy.  They organized a school protest to wear the colour pink.   This movement was later carried out to other major cities across Canada.

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Pink Shirt Day through out the years since 2015 

February 25, 2015 

February 24, 2016 

February 22, 2017 

According to statistics, sadly, every seven minutes someone is bullied in Canada.  Bullying demoralize the victims and  lower their self-esteems.  It has led to shootings and suicides.  The deaths of Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons are two well-known examples.  These teenagers are victims of bullying who felt they had no other option but to kill themselves.

Source: Global News

Together we can make a difference!  Like the two Nova Scotia high school students did eight years ago.  Together we can stop bullying!

Didn't wear pink yesterday?  Don't worry.  The second Wednesday of April is The Day of Pink.  It is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Transmisogyny across the world.  We can wear pink to fight bullying again.

You may ask, "why we have 2 different days to wear pink to fight bullying?"  Hey, why not? 

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