In the wake of serving a year's sentence inside the Burnaby Correctional Center for Women for participating in anti-logging blockades in the Elaho Valley, 80-years-young Betty Krawczyk has self-published a prison journal, Open Living Confidential (From Inside the Joint). "Many men at this point don't really know what women want in a man,"; she writes, after her incarceration among many First Nations women, as well as disgraced juror Gillian Guess. "We as women must know what we want, what we want our male partners to become, what we want our sons and grandsons to become, what we want to become ourselves. Male structures try to convince us that because we are women we must vie for male approval, but in reality it is the other way around. Young women and elder women must stick together here if things are going to change. If we get up the gumption to demand that men stop creating the categories of a super rich few and many super poor, and stop making a dung heap of our beautiful planet in the process, then we need to present a united front.";

978-0-9809170-0-0

[BCBW 2008]