PFN – just femme & dandy Magazine Seeks Submissions on the Theme: “SUSTAIN”

just femme & dandy is a literary & arts magazine for and by the LGBTQIA+ community on fashion. We offer a space in the literary & arts world that has yet to exist, and hope to celebrate the queer, trans, non-binary, and intersex community, who have long since coded ourselves with how we adorn and dress our bodies when it has been dangerous to identify solely with words. Until recently, we could only find a handful of models within popular culture and the public imagination to inform our own aesthetic choices, and so the styles (and art) we don and make operate as a patchwork quilt, collaged together with vintage and thrift store finds, our sister or mother’s lipstick and gowns, our father’s neckties and waistcoats.

The theme for Vol. 3 will be SUSTAIN. How can we use fashion to sustain us during this incredibly trying time? How has fashion sustained you in other times, whether it be in terms of pain, joy, crisis, or other challenges? We’d especially liked to hear submissions regarding: trans + queer pregnancies, femme/fae bodies, chronic pain/disability, and given this theme, we’d love to hear from mutual aid + food communities! And! Tell us about those Zoom outfits! Did you take on roller skating as a pandemic activity? What are you wearing to the parking garage or the skate park? Tell us in (get your) thread in the game, our new sports/fitness/etc section (edited by Jen St. Jude)! We also have a brand new section called not what it seams (edited by Meca’Ayo Cole), which focuses on costume/cosplay – tell us about those solutions in productions, drag, or on the runway, where you sustained your body while letting the look shine!

 We have no word count limitations, but we ask that you be thoughtful about length as it relates to screen fatigue.

just femme & dandy is an anti-racist, pro-Black space. We prioritize submissions from artists of color. We seek work that addresses fashion and style as it relates to the lives of people who are LGBTQIA+, including but not limited to bodypositivity and fatpositivity, mental illness, neurodiversity, chronic illness, disability, non-binary, intersex, artists with intellectual & developmental disabilities (IDD), and transgender lives.