In social justice education, an “accomplice” refers to someone who actively participates in dismantling oppressive systems by using their privilege to challenge the status quo and support marginalized groups, going beyond passive allyship to take concrete actions that may involve personal risk or discomfort to create meaningful change. All accomplices are allies, but not all allies are accomplices.
What does it mean to you to be an ally or an accomplice? What are meaningful ways that people have shown allyship and accompliceship to you or to the bi+ community on a large scale or individual level? How do you wish people could show up? How have you practiced allyship and accompliceship for others, and does your experience as a bi+ person impact the way you do so? In a time where solidarity feels more essential than ever, we’re looking to hear about ways to show up in support for others, whether they be loved ones, strangers, organizations, or in any other form.
Submission Guidelines
BWQ features the voices of women with bi+ sexualities (i.e., bi, pan, fluid, and other non-binary sexualities). We see “woman” as a broad category with space for an array of gender identities and expressions. We welcome contributions from bi+ women who identify as trans, non-binary, cis, and beyond.
Every issue has a theme. While we will consider all submissions, content related to the theme are prioritized.
We welcome essays, poetry, news articles about current issues and events related to bi+ topics, creative writing, musings, film, book, & theater reviews, letters to the editor, visual art (photos, paintings, drawings, images of 3-dimensional art), and more.
Please submit your words in a word document (.doc, docx or .rtf). Use single spacing, 11 pt font. Please do not send pdfs. Different spacing and formatting is okay if submitting poetry but please use Adobe Garamond Pro (11pt), if possible. Images should be high resolution and submitted electronically in .jpg or .png format.
Bi Women Quarterly and Robyn Ochs, Editor reserve the right to reprint your work in current and future related publications, in print and/or online. We will attempt to notify you in advance if we do so. You retain ownership of your work and may re-use it, provided that its previous appearance in Bi Women Quarterly is noted, along with our website (e.g., “This piece previously appeared in Bi Women Quarterly (at BiWomenQuarterly.com”).
Previously published work may be submitted for publication provided you have permission to do so.
Note that Bi Women Quarterly is a print and digital publication. Issues of BWQ are sent via mail and then posted online in both magazine and PDF format at BiWomenQuarterly.com
Submission length: there is no minimum length. Maximum length: 1500 words. Please do not send pieces over this count unless requested by the editor or approved by her.
The maximum number of submissions per person per issue is FOUR.
Before submitting your writing, please run it through spell check and grammar check. Consider, too, asking a friend or two to read your piece for you and provide feedback.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK:
Please send us your work via our SUBMISSION PORTAL.
(https://tinyurl.com/BWQ-Submissions)
You will be asked for the following information:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your Twitter or other social media handles (if public)
- The name you wish to use in BWQ: (you are welcome to use a pseudonym or modify your actual name)
- Name of the piece you are submitting
- A short, 1 to 2 sentence, 3rd person bio that includes your geographic location (e.g.: Robyn Ochs lives in the Boston area and is the editor of BWQ.) to follow your piece:
Finally, you are encouraged — but not required — to submit a photo with your work. Photos should be at least 300 dpi, and have good contrast. This can be a headshot of yourself or an image relevant to your submission that you have the rights to use.