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A parent's view on DRM's workshopsBy Beth Dowling-Jones
Most parents will agree the moment that little bundle is delivered into your life, your priorities change; you are compelled to protect your children to the ends of the earth. My wife and I share a nagging sense of uncertainty over our family set up.
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Hugging your male friends is fine, even if you haven’t just won an Olympic gold medalBy Will Fletcher
Last night Jack Laugher and Chris Mears became the UK’s first Olympic gold medallists in diving, when they won the men’s synchronized 3m springboard. I’m a big fan of Jack and Chris - because of their diving prowess, clearly - so like much of the country I was delighted for them.
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Linda Riley becomes Patron and announces gala dinner, hosted by Clare BaldingBy Will Fletcher
Linda Riley, publisher of Diva magazine and Outnews Global, Founder of the European Diversity awards and diversity campaigner, is unveiled today as a new patron of the award-winning anti-bullying charity, Diversity Role Models (“DRM”).
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Reflections after the attack in OrlandoBy Suran Dickson
Our Chief Executive, Suran Dickson, shares her thoughts following the attack in Orlando this weekend.
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First day back at schoolBy Salil Mazumdar
Primary school role model Salil writes a guest blog about his first day volunteering with DRM.
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This is the story of a little girlBy Navah Bekhor
One of our newest role models wrote this poem about her transgender son. We think it's beautiful, so we wanted to share it with you all.
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Announcing our new report: Embracing Diversity and Ending BullyingBy Lucy Caldicott
This afternoon we launched our report Embracing Diversity and Ending Bullying at a reception in the House of Commons. This report is the result of an independent evaluation of our workshops which have now reached 34,816 young people in the UK.
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TDoR: Visiting my old schoolBy Megan Key
There was no sympathy. I had friends, but they were into girls, clothes and, later on, going to raves, and it didn’t seem like me. So I spent a lot of time on my own. Being the fattest kid in the year, or maybe the school, meant I got used to laughing at myself. Before anyone else got in first. I had to. It was survival. There wasn’t a day went by, when I didn't wish I was at another school.
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The power of storiesBy Lucy Caldicott
Like most sensible people I woke up on Saturday morning with a heavy heart following the appalling events on Friday in Paris. I believe that human beings are inherently good but I can find myself questioning this faith when human beings do dreadful things.
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