Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm the creator and visionary of the Womanhood Project. You can discover the story of how this is unfolding by following this blog. This is a place to dialogue about the unique and varied complexities of womanhood. This is a concept that is being published as a book of essays on the topic coming late spring 2012.
Do you want to be a part of this? We want you involved!! You can email us at thewomanhoodproject@gmail.com
The Womanhood Project
We are literally days away from the finished product of holding the first copy of The Womanhood Project. Buckle up, people. It’s coming!
Update:
We’re 90% ready to go to print (er- ebook format)! We’re working on the last bit of formatting and we’re looking at a mid-May opening. Words can’t express how excited I am about this.
Also, we have a website that will launch soon where people can purchase the ebook, we’ll have an interactive blog, a bio spot for each contributor, and a place for more women to submit articles for further editions.
Here we go!
Womanhood is born from adversity, constructed by necessity. It is about resilience.
I’ve seen firsthand that there is little we cannot come back from. But the necessity to survive, though innately human, is uniquely thrust upon women because we live in a culture that is more or less stacked against us.
Yet we share this.
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More women who are a part of this project as writers.
Seriously, could all of these woman be more beautiful? I can’t wait for you to read their beauty from the inside through their work.
Counting down the days until the book comes out!
There was so much of life I had missed, moments that truly mattered to me as a woman, a daughter, a sister, an auntie, a granddaughter and a friend.
All those late nights I spent at the office, the meetings I led and felt so proud of… where had they gotten me?
”I wish I could write shamelessly and unabashedly about what womanhood means to me but the truth is: I care about what you think. I want you to think that I am wonderful and humble and lovely and beautiful.
I want to impress you with my story. But the most frustrating part is that when my physical mind aims to please you, my heart can’t pour out anything that is true, good or compelling pours out. I don’t expect you to get it. My life thus far has proved to be a rich and complex one full of contradictions, twists and other weird things…
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… the truth is that I was enough of myself. I was never meant to be her or him or them. I was somehow exactly who I was meant to be at that moment, a woman shaped and fashioned by Someone so much bigger than myself.
I am who I am meant to be today. I’m not perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination. I have edges that I’ve over-sanded, sharp edges that should have been left there as protection or as a reminder of times and places traveled that should never be forgotten.
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