New Title for My Book Manuscript

New Title for My Book Manuscript

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For,

How Survivors Stood Up, Organized, and Fought Back Against Sexual Abuse

My old proposed titles for my nonfiction book were OK. Here are a couple of previous titles:

A Phoenix Emerges From the Ashes: The Rise of the Survivors’ Movement to End Sexual Violence — title circa 2022

RISE: How Survivors Created a Movement to End Sexual Violence — title circa 2023 and early 2024

My new title is based on a June Jordan quote about women civil rights workers in the 1950s and 1960s, activists working to change the world. June described these pioneers: “we are the ones we have been waiting for.”

My new working title is

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, How Survivors Stood Up, Organized, and Fought Back Against Sexual Abuse

or

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, How Survivors of Sexual Abuse Stood Up, Organized, and Created a New Movement

Which title do you think is better?

Tim Lennon

August 23, 2024