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video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, and “Too Far (2020 edit)” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (with the final three poems also appearing in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video The filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera was also released with a Hue Cycling filter, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)” and “Finally Treated Fairly” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (with the final poem also appearing in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video was also released with a Hue Cycling filter, & on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Finally Treated Fairly
(what we need in life)

Janet Kuypers
1/16/22

After the cards have been stacked against women for millennia
women struggle through this gamble of life
(even though they know full well the house always wins)

but like a chant that can hear around the world,
what we women need in life is what all people need in life —
we need to be treated as equals; we need the respect we deserve

We women can hear the battle cry around the world,
“que necesitamos en la vida” shouted in Español,
“was wir auf das Leben brauchen” proclaimed in Germany,
“Co potrzelujemy w zyciu...” in Poland,
“ceea ce avem nevoie în viaţă...”in Romania,
“Ono što mi treba u životu...” in Serbia,
“Wat ons in die lewe nodig het” in Afrikaans,
“Mga Kailangang ispiritwal sa buhay” in the Philippines—

For as I said, women’s rights are in the interest of all,
what we women need in life is what we all need in life,
because when women are finally treated fairly in the world,
when we’re finally out from under your thumb,
when we finally aren’t threatened by the violence of men,
when women are no longer degraded and raised up to equal footing,
when women are raised, we all are raised
we are all better with fairness and equality,
where we can all grow, together






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