Gone viral
Submitted by Robyn on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 1:34pm
14-year-old Corey Maison was badly bullied in 5th grade. One bully even told her that if she killed herself, nobody would care. Why did he do this? Because Corey was different.
Corey shows in her video that she never fit in with her peers when she was younger. She was shunned by girls and teased by boys, and even laughed at by adults later on.
Corey tells her story in the following viral video:
Colorado's Coy Mathis and her family are the focus of a new film, Growing up Coy, which will premier at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival on June 16.
The film was directed by Eric Juhola of Still Point Pictures.
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I'm happy the bullies didn't win
yet.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Ps.
Great video.
Everyone should watch it.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Cory
A brave a beautiful young woman. You Go Girl!
“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” - Edward Snowden 2016
Very heart warming, she is a beautiful young lady inside and out
Cory, just beautiful
Cory is an amazing young woman. What a beautiful feisty spirit.
Thank you for speaking out against bullying, it should never be accepted.
And can I get a shout out for Corey's parents?
Wow, what loving, caring and supportive parents this beautiful girl has.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
same happened in my son's middle school
A Hispanic boy, younger than my son(so not really a friend) realized he was a girl and the kids rallied around her transition. (parents were awesome, too.) Every step of the way, the principal tried to prevent the support(a Gay-Straight Alliance type club) and in the end - the principal left! This is the one true thing I see: while the girl still has her legal boy's name(in the yearbook, kind of weird) she looks SO HAPPY. This is what any loving parents want for their kids - to see them be authentically themselves, and okay with it.
Thank you.
Cory, for being you.
From the Light House.
She looks soooo very
Happy, as every person deserves to be. Great video, heartwarming story of love, support and courage.
Thanks for sharing this, Robyn!
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
Cool, good to see. Thanks, Robyn.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thank you for sharing this!
It's really heartwarming.
Love is my religion.
Corey - that's great!!
She found ALL the right people. How many don't?...
Peace
FN
"Democracy is technique and the ability of power not to be understood as oppressor. Capitalism is the boss and democracy is its spokesperson." Peace - FN