“Acceptance Speech”

2017 Myles, Eileen (b. 1949). “Acceptance Speech.” I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016 (Brooklyn, NY: Dancing Foxes Press, 2017), 42-45. http://dfpress.us/Transcript_IWAP%201_13%20-%20for%20print.pdf. Rpt. as "Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18. Proceeds from the book were donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center. PSt 

The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an “openly female” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign. Female author.