It’s kind of all the rage to fight bullying these days — Lady Gaga, Glee, Demi Lovato, Ian Somerhalder — all our faves are taking on the mission. So is best-selling YA author Susane Colasanti, with her newest novel, Keep Holding On, about a girl who’s sick of being ostracized for being poor and stands [...]
Lots of us are wearing purple today, supporting Spirit Day, which started last year in response to the horrifying spate of LGBT teen suicides linked to bullying. But even if the color didn’t fit in your wardrobe, the wonders of social networking have made it possible to turn your profile pic purple, and we think [...]
Some might argue that Rebecca Black’s “Friday” video led to the biggest cyber-bullying frenzy in Internet history, but we guess there’s a big difference between mean YouTube comments, and your fellow eighth graders coming after you during study hall. TMZ reports that due to the notoriety of Rebecca’s jam, the singer had to be switched [...]
Harry Potter. The Hunger Games. 50 Cent’s novel Playground. Come January, young adult readers will be shoving their beloved sci-fi and fantasy titles aside for Fiddy’s semi-autobiographical book, about a 13-year-old who must make up for bullying others. Says Fiddy, “This book would have been very helpful for me growing up and now that I [...]
We’re glad Emma Watson denies bullying rumors about her time at Brown. It’s hard enough finishing your education without some sophomore yelling “Alohomora!” every time you go to open a car door. In a letter posted to her official website, the actress says reports that students heckled Watson with Harry Potter quotes is pure fiction. [...]
Looks like Hollywood has Jennifer Aniston to thank for a marked decrease in photos defaced by fake splooge or stick-figure fetuses. According to her new interview on Ellen, Jennifer Aniston stopped Perez Hilton‘s bullying ways. “I ran into Perez Hilton in a garage. I had finished dinner with a girlfriend and we were driving out [...]
Miley has been a bad, bad girl, and this time it’s not even salvia and/or nudity related! According to Miley’s best childhood friend Nicole Mullen-Holm, during middle school Miley Cyrus bullied other kids with homophobic and fat-hating slurs. “Miley is a liar who bullied girls and was a real b—- to everyone,” Nicole reports. And [...]
