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PFN – Call for Submissions to just femme & dandy Volume 5. Theme: “Resurrect”
May 15, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
call for submissions!
Vol. 5: RESURRECT
Just like the totem animal for many of us, the cat, LBTQIA+ babes often have more than one life, maybe more than nine. We are not only accustomed to rebuilding and resurrecting ourselves, our style, our family unit, our way of considering home, we often welcome the opportunity to.
For this issue, in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the death of one of our most beloved icons, Nina Simone, we ask you to submit poetry and prose about anything you can think of that could be housed on a website that engages with the idea of resurrection and LGBTQIA+ fashion. By fashion, our definitions, like ourselves, branch out wide and take in multiplicities, but here’s a list to get your brain and heart and body going: clothing, cosmetics, skincare, hair (styles and products), shoes, perfumery/cologne/scents, accessories, hosiery, and so on. For this particular issue we also seek personal reflections of resurrection in relation to one of our legends, but we especially want to see submissions centering Whitney Houston, Nina Simone, Marsha P. Johnson, Gladys Bentley, Josephine Baker, Stormé DeLarverie, and Willi Ninja. Tell us about that look that brought you closer to the truest parts of yourselves. Tell us about a drag performance that enabled you to be the self you had always dreamed of. Tell us about when you thought all was lost, and an article of clothing brought you up from the ashes. NOTE: Submissions are not required to align with the theme, but we will highlight the pieces that center resurrection in some form or fashion. Priority, as always, goes to BIPOC writers and artists, and we particularly want to hear from those in the trans, non-binary, intersex, and other underrepresented and under-published communities.
SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN FROM MARCH 1, 2023 to MAY 15, 2023. Please read specific guidelines below. Please only submit ONE submission, whether that’s to Addie Tsai or to a particular section. Pitches that don’t fall under any specific category (or multiple categories) can be sent to either co-editor in chiefs Addie Tsai, addie@justfemmeanddandy.com or Sarah Sheppeck, sarah@justfemmeanddandy.com.
Learn more about each section by visiting the submit section on our website.
“Queer as not about who you’re having sex with—that can be a dimension of it—but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent, and create, and find a place to speak, and to thrive, and to live.” —bell hooks