You may be familiar with To Write Love on Her Arms, if only because a large number of bands and artists have been seen - and continue to be seen - wearing TWLOHA (phonetically pronounced twuh-low-ha, sort of like aloha, I think) apparel.

And you might be asking, possibly in a self-satisfied tone, "Well just what, exactly, is a large number?" To provide a smattering of artists supporting To Write Love on Her Arms:

The Almost
Anberlin
Andy Davis
Band Marino
Bayside
Between the Trees
Bradley Hathaway
The Classic Crime
Cool Hand Luke
Copeland
Dave Barnes
Derek Webb
Dustin Kensrue
Eric James
Evanescence
Fallout Boy
Fireflight
Forever The Sickest Kids
Gasoline Heart
Hawthrone Heights
The Human Flight Committee
Jason Choi and the Sea
Jimmy Eat World
Jonezetta
Mat Kearney
Matt Wertz
Mayday Parade
Meg and Dia
Mike Dunn & The Kings of New England
The Myriad
Panic at the Disco
Paramore
Plain White T's
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Rocket Summer

Those kinds of people.

TWLOHA raises awareness about suicide, self-injury, addiction and depression, and (my favorite part) financially supports efforts to help people who are trying to get into treatment and recovery, or just find help in general.

As their website says:

This began as an attempt to tell a story and a way to help a friend in Spring 2006. The story and the life it represented were both things of contrast – pain and hope, addiction and sobriety, regret and the possibility of freedom. The story’s title “To Write Love on Her Arms” was also a goal, believing that a better life was possible. We started selling t-shirts as a way to pay for our friend’s treatment, and we made a MySpace page to give the whole thing a home. Our friends in Switchfoot and Anberlin were among the first to wear these shirts. In the days that followed, we learned quickly that the story we were telling represented people everywhere. We began to hear from people in need of help, and others asking what they could do to help their friends. We heard from people who had lost loved ones to suicide. Many said that these were questions they had never asked and parts of their story that they had never shared. Others were honest in a different way, confessing these were issues they knew little or nothing about. It seemed we had stumbled upon a bigger story, and a conversation that needed to be had.

The good news is that depression is very treatable, that a very real hope exists in the face of these issues. We’ve met people who are getting the help they need, sitting across from a counselor for the first time, stepping into treatment, or reaching out to a suicide hotline in a desperate moment.

Check 'em out. They're good people promoting a very good movement.

And music is, in many ways, making it happen.