Users are furious after the creator of an invite-only pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group announced that she would be cashing out by turning their social media posts into a coffee table book.
Libby Chamberlain announced that Pantsuit Nation received a book deal on Monday evening,
"I am *beyond* excited to announce that there is going to be a book," wrote Chamberlain. "A Pantsuit Nation book."
"A book of YOU. A book BY YOU. A permanent, beautiful, holdable, snuggle-in-bed-able, dogear-able, shareable, tearstainable book. Your voices. Your stories. Our community. Our project. Our message of hope and change."
"I believe that collecting our stories in a book is an important step, and a very exciting one," she wrote. "The book will further our mission and the premise that stories give meaning to action and that meaningful action leads to long-term, sustainable change."
Chamberlain wrote that she thought the book is "going to be AMAZING."
"Let’s see if we can harness that force within the pages of a book and see it on nightstands and coffee tables all around the world," she wrote. "I think we can and I think it’s going to be AMAZING."
Chamberlain's post had earned nearly twice as many "angry" emojis as it did "love" emojis as of Wednesday morning, indicating that users were far less enthused by the idea of Chamberlain's book than she was.
"This is a betrayal of safe space," wrote Ellen Byrne, who complained that Chamberlain saw "the material as something to monetize."
"So you're profiting from everyone else's stories? And instead of making this intention known, you've made it a BIG SURPRISE with this announcement? Bravo, Libby! You're the worst," wrote Fenton Crowder.
Others took the announcement as an opportunity to complain about the way the site was run.
"This explains why all of the posts were so grotesquely heavily edited into homogeneity, and why stories that didn't fit your narrative were ignored," wrote Joanna Schuyler Rubin.
User Megan Caron went after Chamberlain as a "nice white lady sitting on her Pottery Barn sheets" who is exploiting "minorities, of course."
"Let's be real for a second: this is ACTUAL bullshit," wrote Caron. "This is a woman profiting off of the shoulders of many (minorities, of course) and shouldn't be labeled as anything else. PSN has become a shell of what it was intended to be, and, quite frankly, this reeks of exploitation. This nice white lady sitting on her Pottery Barn sheets with her damn Mac isn't doing anything. How is this book going to help the woman of color trying to support her family without benefits and a living wage? New flash: it won't. Run for office, call your reps, have the difficult phone calls... anything but this."
The announcement also earned the scorn of Daily Beast senior editor Erin Gloria Ryan, who wrote that the group "is the worst."
"An invite-only, incredibly popular Facebook group of Hillary Clinton supporters called Pantsuit Nation is being turned into a book, the perfect bullshit faux feminist capstone on a bullshit year characterized by the failure of popular feminism," wrote Ryan.
She wrote that the site group has become "a space for white people to pat each other on the head for acting in a manner most woke."
You can sign up to receive alerts about the books progress on PantsuitNation.org. It will be released in 2017, according to the site.