LOVE to Charlottesville/ U-Va students

The University of Virginia in Charlotte, VA, US, was a recent site of white supremacist hate demonstrations and intimidation of students, staff,and community members.

As the community recovers from this trauma, U-Va students might benefit from some positive reminders that the world is thinking of them and holding them in their hearts.

In this swap, participants will send one postcard, notecard, or other piece of positive mail to a student organization at the University of Virginia expressing support, love, hope for a better future, encouragement in students' education, or other appropriate message for a community that has gone through a horrible threat.

A list of student organizations that support students most likely to feel targeted by white nationalist hate groups will be posted below; pick one of these groups or look up your own preferred group to send to. Send a PC or other piece of mail sharing something about your swap, your feelings about countering hate, your college experience, or encouragement to your swap partner as well.

This is a goodwill swap, so although I will check profiles and contact folks with recent 1's to do an alternative 1:1 swap, it will be open to new swappers and folks with 3's or old 1's. Feel free to set up an alternative US-only swap or swap with other participation guidelines if that suits your needs more closely, and thanks for supporting this community :)

Image is of U-Va hero Ms. Mavis Claytor, who became the first African-American student to enter and also to graduate from the U-Va School of Nursing in 1970. She entered as a transfer student the same year that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. See her story here.