An Anthology, Amplifying Black Women’s Voices: Documenting Memory, Movement, and Meaning
Call for Entries
Deadline: October 31, 2025
What is We the 92%?
In 2024, 92% of Black women voters showed up—again. But what came after wasn't triumph. It was grief. Disillusionment. Chaos, Cruelty. Exhaustion. A different vision for the future. This anthology is a cultural and political response to that moment.
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We are gathering 92 essays, poems. and other literary expressions from Black women across the country to tell their truth, documenting who we are, what we carried—and what we’re building next.
"Truth is not in the facts, it is in the telling." — Toni Morrison
We The 92%
Documenting Memory, Movement, and Meaning
​This is an extraordinary time to be alive. In our lifetimes we have never experienced a time so shaped by cruelty, chaos, and fear, confusion, war, rumors, and life-altering decisions made by a paralyzed Congress and an overreaching White House. Facts are drowned out. History is being banned, rewritten, or erased altogether. And yet - we endure. We witness. We remember. We refuse to be silenced.
We the 92% is more than an anthology. It is a living, breathing record of how Black women showed up in overwhelming numbers during the 2024 election and how we are continuing to show up, even now. This isn’t just a book. It’s a community. And now, we’re inviting you to be part of it.
We aim to publish 92 powerful contributions, a number that reflects not just our turnout, but our collective voice, memory, and movement. We are calling for essays, poetry, open letters, meditations, and creative reflections that speak truth to this moment: What have you lived? What are you carrying? What do you know now that you didn’t before?
Tell us how you’re navigating this shifting world, how you’re holding others and being held. What you’ve lost. What you’re building. What you still believe.
This is an invitation to be heard, remembered, and real. To get on record in your own words. Together, we will not only reflect - we will grow, learn, and imagine what’s possible beyond this moment.
A Call for Essays & Other Works
We invite essays, poetry, and creative reflections that speak to these themes, raw, unfiltered, and unapologetic. Share this call with your networks: friends, family, colleagues, community organizations, writing groups, and social media.
If your organization supports Black women and wants to collaborate, reach out to us via - Email.
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We seek essays, poetry, and hybrid works that capture the full spectrum of this moment:
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The cost of showing up - How we organized, voted, and grieved as DEI programs vanished, federal protections crumbled, and the economy betrayed us.
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The audacity of rest -Where we found joy, silence, or solace amid the storm.
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The labor behind the numbers - The kitchen-table strategizing, the unsung movements, the "I’m tired but I’m going" grit that never makes headlines.
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The futures we’re seeding - How we have been impacted by the sweeping changes to our lives since the election by Executive Orders, how we’re raising our children, building communities, and imagining freedom beyond this broen period of time.
This is not just about politics. It’s about our legacy.
Your words will sit beside sisters, elders, and ancestors. They will be a balm and a blueprint. A reminder that we were here, living, loving, and resisting, while democracy danglings by a thread.
Why This Matters
Black women are not a percentage; we are a testament. We are artists, mothers, federal workers, soldiers, scholars, faith leaders, caregivers, strategists, truth-tellers, and visionaries. In every region of the country and across generations, we showed up and we continue to show up, organizing, voting, protecting democracy, holding families and futures together.
When the call came in the Summer of 2024, Harris stepped forward, we answered with our whole selves: door knocking for all of our futures, joining postcard writing parties, staffing voter registration tables, attending rallies with our children, and turning church basements into war rooms.
In November, 92% (or more) of Black women voters cast their ballots, not as a monolith, but as a mosaic, for hope, stability, and democracy. And yet, our voices were again overlooked, our labor undervalued, our power underestimated.
WRITING CATEGORIES
Call For Entries
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
- Maya Angelou
What We're Looking For
We are seeking personal essays (800–1,200 words) and other works that reflect the complexity of this post-election moment. Your piece may touch on themes such as:
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Political disappointment or disillusionment
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Project 2025 and impact
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The rule of law
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Faith/Spirituality/Religion and survival
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The Federal workforce
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Our health and healthcare
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Our civil/human rights
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Rage and righteousness
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Family conversations
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Community grief and healing
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Cultural legacy and generational memory
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Personal reckonings and private hope
Each essay should feel true to you. We are not looking for punditry, we are looking for your unique presence. Entries can not be wholly or primarily generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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