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video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Oriental” from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Indium, trying to get through” (+ showing the image for this poem) from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” to start her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; @ Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Oriental” from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Indium, trying to get through” (+ showing the image for this poem) from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” to start her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling#janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights” and “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” from the books “Floating Island” and “Testament” for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). video This video is also a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights
video Enjoy this YouTube” video on 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her “Testament” book poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights”, “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights”, portions of the poem “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights”, and as a bonus, the first poem she performed in her “Into the Spotlight” Chicago feature, “Evil of What They’ve Done” (this video was filmed live in studio from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video Also enjoy this YouTube” video filmed live in studio from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This (now deleted) Facebook live video stream from this radio show interview was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr, loved on its Facebook page, liked from its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music” (as well as images 1, 2, 3, & 4), on its Instagram page, liked & commented on this on its LinkedIn page, & liked on its “ Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Austin Artmosphere Artists”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

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Download all of the poems shared during this radio show interview in the free chapbook
““Testament” on WZRD”,
w/ poems read on 8/12/23 WZRD 88.3 FM radio
video Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in her 2nd encore reading after her lead feature at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” and “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video Also enjoy this as a YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights

Journalisming the Story
               of Equal Rights

Janet Kuypers
8/30/22

Copy editing and proof reading
Seem to take half of my workday —
Reviewing other people’s essays,
Correcting spelling, punctuation,
Removing spaces at the ends of
Paragraphs... mostly technical stuff.
But after reading an essay talking
About how the 29th Amendment
Should be created (after a number of
States have passed anti-abortion laws
After the overturning of Roe v. Wade)
to help women who need assistance,
Whom are impoverished and in more
Restrictive states, to help them to
Get to “free” states so they can
Exercise rights, that the government
Does not have the right to take away.
This essay ended, stating that the
28th Amendment, of course, is
The Equal Rights Amendment*.

The journalist in me went into
Overdrive, because I had to look,
Confirm with the U.S. Government,
Even Wikipedia... Although having
Equal rights seems like a splendid
Idea, the total number of U.S.
Amendments to the Constitution
Is only 27. I had to tell them to
Correct their copy, and they only
Changed the ending to say that
The 28th Amendment should be
The Equal Rights Amendment.

I question if that is all that needs to
Change, though, because the
Equal Rights Amendment,
Introduced to the U.S. government
Nearly a century ago, 1923, failed
To pass. The ERA was re-introduced
In 1971, passing the House & Senate,
But then went to state legislatures
for ratification, where it was rejected
by a few states and was never passed.
In the new millennium, even this
Very decade (the one that saw the
Overturning of Roe v. Wade and
States taking women’s right away,
That decade), the House Judiciary
Resolution 28 does propose “an
Amendment to the Constitution
Of the United States relative to
Equal rights for men and women”*,
But again, equality for women is
Something still yet to pass. So, reading
This “letter to the editor” for future
Publication, I question the essay,
Wondering if it misses the point.
If there was any chance for
Equal rights for women in the
United States, then their rights
Wouldn’t be removed by select
Conservative men in government
In the first place. If anyone ever
Truly wanted to codify equality
For women, it would have been done
Long ago, and we wouldn’t be in
This pit “man”kind has thrown
Us into now, as we furiously
claw our way back to the light.

 

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment

** https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-joint-resolution/28






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