The Something Awesome Project

The Something Awesome Project’s Launch Party/Fundraiser is going down TONIGHT. Tonight. It’s here. AAAAAHHH! We are overflowing with excitement and cannot wait to share an amazing night with our friends, family and supporters.  

Join us tonight, January 22, 2011 from 7-11PM at Two Steps Downtown Grille, located at 5 Ives Street in Danbury, CT. We can’t wait to see you there!

(If you haven’t already purchased your ticket online, you will be able to pay at the door).

What a better way to spend a Saturday than getting INKED with The Something Awesome Project?! We held a Tattoo Party on Saturday, January 15th at Tattoo Mamma in Wingdale, New York and it was a great time! Amidst the buzzing of the needle was delicious food donated by Desert Moon Grille and Full Belly Deli (both in Danbury, CT), music and laughs! 

THANK YOU to Nina (owner) and Alicia at Tattoo Mamma and more thank you’s to Nina for her generous donation! 

The Something Awesome Project’s first GSA Connection was such a BLAST! Were you there? AMiRIGHT OR AMiRIGHT?! 

Our GSA Connection brings together students and faculty who are members and advisors, respectively, of their school’s Gay/Straight Alliance. Over 50 students and teachers attended, representing Danbury, New Fairfield, Newtown, New Milford and Bethel.  Although Joel Barlow and Brookfield High Schools were not able to attend, we look forward to seeing them in the future! 

The evening began with an introduction from Jes and me, after which, we turned the floor over to the advisors. Each advisor introduced themselves to the group and shared both the things they are currently doing in their GSA groups and the things they wanted to improve upon.

After their introductions, we allowed the advisors to break off into a group to discuss and share issues pertinent to their groups.  We split the students in to groups of two, gave each person a piece of paper and a pencil and got ready to play “Silent Introductions.” Each student was asked to draw three or more things that were representative of their personality, but they were not to discuss their drawings with their partners. We then asked each pair to stand in front of the group and introduce their partner solely based on what the partner had drawn!

When Jes and I decided to play this activity, we thought it would be a fun way to get students to open up and learn about each other. We were overjoyed when the game had everyone laughing hysterically, joking with one another and forming new friendships! It was such a success and I know my cheeks/stomach/sides were aching from laughing so much!

We ended the evening with fun conversation over delicious wings, donated by Pippa’s in Danbury! 

Everyone had a wonderful time and already couldn’t wait for the next event! The group’s unanimous decision was to have a potluck dinner, which we scheduled for January 13th.  It was unfortunately postponed due to snow, but we look forward to having the event after the Launch Party! 

xx Jaime

The very first super duper extraordinary GSA Connection organized by The Something Awesome Project is happening. It’s a real thing. We’re excited.

Wednesday, December 8th at Danbury High School. Contact me (jaime[@]somethingawesome[dot]org) for further details (time and room). For some reason I’m nervous to put the details online. Is that crazy? I think I’m being protective of the GSA ducklings.  

Food, games, activities, talking, feelings, thoughts, ideas, sharing. 

Jes and I are obsesssiiied.

daniprobably:

my ridiculous NSYNC cover. honestly.

One of the students at a high school we visited yesterday took it upon herself to write this beautiful piece of something about our project on Reddit’s LGBT section. Now, I have no idea what Reddit even is, but we love her for it nonetheless.

From what I gather, I think you should sign up for Reddit (it takes a millisecond) and press the “UP” arrow next to the post, which will boost it’s position on the LGBT main page. The more people that see and learn about The SAP, the faster we can reach our goal of building a community center! 

Western Connecticut State University’s Gay/Straight Alliance held its 3rd annual Drag Show tonight and LET ME TELL YOU. I had so many feelings. 

SO. MANY. 

I walked in to the building, excited enough to see the show and then someone handed me a program. I opened it up and BAM!…

We were featured in the thing! My heart went loco and I thought, this can’t get any better! Now, I know you watch TV and movies and you know that when someone says something like that, things totally kept getting better. 

The emcees for the night, Andy and Alex, spoke about our project in their opening segment, explaining that the GSA decided to donate half of the 50/50 raffle to our movement (HOW INCREDIBLE ARE THEY?!). It was incredible to have such exposure to a large audience and it solidified in my mind and heart that this is really becoming REAL.

And then the drag show was all sorts of stellar. Besides the incredible performances by WCSU students, there were two professional Queens and a professional King whose stage shows were crazy good! A girl sitting near me had an identity crisis right before my eyes because she developed a fast crush on the King, whom she thought was actually a male!

“Noooooo,” she gasped in disbelief when someone broke the news to her. 
“Fuck it!” She exclaimed. He’s hot! Crisis averted. 

And then and thenn anddd thennn!!! 50/50 raffle time came and the gentleman who won offered to donate his winnings to The SAP! 

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. 

Thank you WCSU GSA. Thank you SO big.