2025-2026 #USvsHate deadline: February 27, 2026
Share all compelling #USvsHate messages locally to shape school climate. This is a crucial part of #USvsHate.
Students and teachers are sharing messages locally on school walls, bulletin boards, websites, and T-shirts, via gallery walks, and in assemblies to highlight live speeches or presentations. We also encourage sharing in public spaces across your community – cafes, libraries, stores, museums, anywhere!
For a reminder of what we invite as an #USvsHate message, see our Guide to Making Your Message.
Submit your best to our national challenge via this form.
- Educators: consider inviting students to help you select entries. One teacher set up a gallery walk allowing students to see and vote on one another’s work.
Teachers can submit 5 entries max per class, per challenge! Youth over 13 can also submit directly on their own.
How do I prep to submit?
- Obtain parent/guardian permission for naming student creator under 18 (required), or submit without naming the student creator.
- Option 1: Upload a signed parent/guardian permission slip.
- Option 2: Submit anonymously.
- Submit up to 5 entries max per class you teach.
- Do not submit an entry that contains any student’s full name or school name inside it, like a signature visible on a poster or a student or school named inside a video.
- Youth over 13 can also submit for themselves. (Parent/guardian permission is required for submitting under student name. Otherwise, submit anonymously.)
- If permissions are unclear, we will share anonymously.
- Submission should include the hashtag #USvsHate.
- #USvsHate Submission Checklist [PDF]
QUESTIONS? Contact usvshate@gmail.com
- The submission form will also invite students and teachers to explain the work and intentions behind messages in a “backstory,” either written or recorded. Plan ahead! We might publish backstories or portions of backstories online or in other #USvsHate products, like compilation videos or reports.
- Any message or backstory submitted must be ready to share publicly as is.
- When submitting, you are giving #USvsHate permission to use your submitted material in #USvsHate public materials like our posters/stickers, compilation videos, social media, reports, blog posts, etc., and to shorten/copyedit backstories for public sharing. You are also giving #USvsHate permission to let #USvsHate partner organizations reshare #USvsHate’s material to further amplify and celebrate the work. You are also giving #USvsHate permission to fundraise for project costs by selling a limited set of #USvsHate winning products.
To be considered for a “Winning” #USvsHate message, the message also must do the following:
- Be both creative and original. (Use original words and other material. Don’t plagiarize. A design could make a common slogan original, but our preference is new words and ideas. Do not use clips from music, videos, or other media that is copyrighted by others. If you use others’ publicly available material, credit the creator whenever possible.)
- Successfully communicate the #USvsHate message of inclusion and justice for all, to a group of peers.
No message submitted should be harmful or hateful to others.
How to upload using our form:
- Those submitting images can a) scan a paper submission or b) create the image digitally. You can upload messages like Op Eds, poems, or letters to the editor as docs or PDFs, or upload documentation of art installations or performances. If you want to submit a paper submission and don’t have access to a scanner, you can upload a photograph of a piece of paper.
- If you win, we may ask you to mail us the original for reproduction.
- Again, any message submitted must be ready to share publicly as is.
Winning entries will be amplified nationally via our website and social media. A subset will be made into posters and stickers for participants. Check out our latest winning messages!
Finally, take the most important next step: ask students and colleagues what they want to learn and do NEXT in your school community. Is there a next topic on the website that people want to explore? Could a favorite #USvsHate activity be taught every year? Who could join #USvsHate in a next round? Go for it! Return to our Getting Started tab for questions to ask students and adults, to figure out what’s next.
Questions? Contact usvshate@gmail.com.