The "Campaign for Participation" moving to a "Battle for Belonging"!

 I am submitting this to post on the blog of the Center for Women in Astronomy (yes, many male astronomers do post there):

Nothing shakes your sense of belonging more than being given the stron message that no one wants to talk with you ... unless it's being made to feel you cannot join any new group.
I am preparing a crowdfunding campaign to produce a documentary studying ostracism in astronomy, and I need help reviewing the draft pitch for crowdfunding.

Issues of retaliation and ostracism are important to members of the astronomy community who are concerned with issues that can stop scientists from pursuing science. Ostracism and retaliation can affect men and women, and can be ruinous to being in science, regardless of whether it comes from discrimination or from ``we just don't like you.''
Many of issues of concern cannot be adequately addressed if the community goes along with retaliation for reporting harrassive or discriminatory behavior.
No member of the community can be ostracized for reporting issues related to abuse or discrimination of any kind.

A documentary on ostracism will be able to show how ostracism and retaliation lead to imposter syndrome, the subject of an upcoming session at the AAS meeting. A full discussion of imposter syndrome must include a discussion of how imposter syndrome is likely to be felt by a target of
ostracism or retaliation, especially the ostracized job searcher, who might be called an ``imposter'' job applicant due to having to cover up disruption of previous research. The fear of ostracism would certainly be a major driver of feeling inadequate. It is also essential to this discussion to consider the effect on the skills development of a target of ostracism. How can a target of ostracism job search not feel like a terrible imposter, when a person's group
has thrown him or her out and intentionally blocked any more skills development or paper credits?

I ask for the community's support to help me crowdfund by first helping with the writing, and then helping spread publicity of this documentary once the crowdfunding site is launched.
(I do not seek contributions from astronomers here, since astronomers are not rich, but rather need help getting support from the larger community
that loves astronomy.)

Please leave comments of how to improve my pitch here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1807739139/1899930498?token=be35c64f

I seek to participate in the discussion on imposter syndrome at the next AAS meeting, as well as contribute the topics of ostracism and retaliation
for the planned series of sessions on ethical issues.
However, I have been unemployed for many years, and have no way of paying for attending the AAS meeting unless I get support from the public through crowdfunding. I hope to use this documentary and campaign as a means of overcoming the obstructions keeping me out of astronomy.

Belonging and participation are essential values that should have wide appeal in the science community as well as the general public. I am discussing many issues that are covered in AAS ethics statements, but also many essential ethical issues that are left uncovered.

Please leave comments on how to improve my pitch. I need as much support as I can get to overcome opposition to me being in the group, so that I can be a part of the astronomy community.

I hope the community will support my efforts to do a documentary as well as take back my role in research so that I can return to being a productive and supported member of the community. I hope that whatever means I develop to overcome ostracism, retaliation, and imposter syndrome will be of value to future scientists seeking to participate in astronomy!