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Contributors wanted for upcoming compilation, “Election Aborted 2008: A Maverick Sisterhood of Sexism and Misogyny Through the Ages,” edited by BettyJean Kling.
This is the year that women came to realize how truly undervalued we are in this country and rose up to say never again. As we watched the first black male president honored and were told just how historic that was, I could not help but ask what was so historic about electing another man. Americans seemed to be reminded of “white guilt” from our slavery years and how electing Barack Obama moved us forward, united us and made this better.
Guilt resolved.
Well, women’s slavery to men has yet to be resolved. It has lasted a great deal longer; hell it has been going on since the beginning of time. Women have been victimized – beaten, raped and today still murdered at the hands of men. The black candidate was not mistreated by white men, but both the female candidates were shamelessly “raped” by the media and by the Obama camp. So I ask once more — what was so historic that so many people were crying for joy, for misplaced shame, while women were left behind yet again?
We cannot let what happened during this year’s election cycle — rampant sexism and misogyny — continue or ever happen again. I fear women might stop running for the highest offices. Why should they continue to try? It’s dangerous, devastating and demeaning for our daughters to see. Join us as we take aim at the treatment women received by our party, our media, our opponents, and other women.
I will be assembling your stories for this book that will memorialize forever the “Mavericks of 2008,” because we were brave enough to stand up and speak out and say “enough is enough.” We too were brutalized, shamed, had and continue to have our civil rights abused. Women’s rights are human rights.
Please submit a piece about your life experiences and encourage your mothers and grandmothers to submit oral or written accounts as well. Do not let the histories of these brave women, who endured and never complained, go unread and unrecorded, as if their hardships and slavery and mistreatment were less than the slavery of the blacks — it was not.
We are not focusing on the events immediately preceding the 2008 presidential race and how the resulting election of Barack Obama galvanized a nation and changed the lives of those who were involved, as that will be covered by our esteemed colleagues Lynette Long and Joan Lipkin. Instead, we will focus on tales of what women have had to overcome to get to where we are today.
Forward your own chronicle or an authorized biographical piece which can be authenticated. We will also accept previously written or posted pieces. This project will consist of your stories, poems, thoughts and dreams extending over the course of your lives and the those of your mothers and their mothers.
All pieces presented will be considered for publication, however publication is not guaranteed. Compensation will be one copy of the book. Submissions will be accepted beginning immediately. Once submitted, essays will become the property of the Free Us Now, until published after which copyrights will revert back to contributors.
Please send your document to BJ@Free-US-Now.com Include your name, email address, mailing address and phone number. In order to ensure credibility, all articles must be written in the author’s own name. No pseudo names or blog names will be accepted. All documents should be sent as word attachments with numbered papers, in Times font and 12 point type.
When we do put the first woman in the white house we too will be able to tout just how historic it was. Please share this information with as many women of varied ages and experiences as you can and encourage them to be a part of the history that turned things around in 2008!
Most Sincerely
Bettyjean Kling
Bettyjean Kling M.S, M.Ed
BJ@Free-US-Now.com
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