This is the first of the eight ‘Stories of Being Me’ films by the B-Change Foundation.
These videos highlight stories from persons of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity. This one’s from Singapore – the others will be from Jakarta, Kathmandu, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Manila, and Hanoi.
They’ll be hosted on BE web-app, which provides information for young people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity in 5 languages: Indonesian, Malay language, Simplified Chinese and Thai. These resources will be uploaded gradually.
If you want to help out, here’s what the team says you can do:
We need your support!
1. Help us publicize the videos and content via your social media platforms. Our videos will be released once a week (over 8 weeks) starting on Thursday May 29th via the BE web-app and our social media platforms. As we want to meaningfully engage young people in different localities, we also have twitter accounts in Indonesian, Malay language, Simplified Chinese and Thai. If you agree, we’ll send you a follow-up email with the video links and a quick message you could use to help us promote them on social media.
2. Share your resources with us. Nothing beats localized content in local languages.
3. Recommend NGOs and your peers for the BE services maps section.
[Contact them here.]
Why you should be involved
We hope that the BE web-app will compliment your work and act as an additional resource that will enable you to reach out to more young people.
As a growing organization, we hope to gain your support and build a meaningful relationship with you to promote and protect the rights of all people, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity and etc.
More about the BE-app:
The BE web-app features a growing knowledge base of information as well as a ‘services map,’ where young people can identify service providers and NGOs in their cities to seek assistance Another interesting feature of the BE web-app is its Q&A feature that allows young people to seek answers, clarify and resolve their doubts with their peers through a real-time interactive chat.
More info here: www.being-me.net
Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/bchangenow
