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SUMMARY:PFN - Usawa Literary Review Seeking Submissions on: Faʻafafine or Gender & Its Discontents
DESCRIPTION:Usawa: Call for Submissions – December 2024 Issue \n\n\n\n\nGENDER AND ITS DISCONTENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotograph by: Ryan Stowers\nFa’afafine\nTaken in Faleapuna at a road side shop \nFaʻafafine (translated: “in the manner of a woman”) are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. \n\n\n\n\nFor its December 2024 Issue\, Usawa Literary Review invites contributions in form of poetry\, short fiction\, reviews\, interviews\, essays\, creative nonfiction\, queer auto-fiction\, (and any other genre-bending genre which queers the concept of genres)\, around the theme\,  ‘Gender & Its Discontents ’. \nGender is perhaps one of the most naturalised\, and hence problematic of strands which make our social identities. When intersected with class\, caste\, or sexual orientation\, gender can provide us with immense social and cultural capital\, or conversely\, become the reason that such positions are denied to us\, violently\, deliberately. In Amrita Mahale’s novel\, Milk Teeth (2018)\, we witness Kartik Kinni\, a privileged\, upper caste male lead a shameful\, double life as closeted homosexual frequenting railway toilets to have sex. The Pink Chaddi Campaign\, a nonviolent protest campaign launched in 2009\, by the Consortium of Pub-going\, Loose and Forward Women\, entailed women from all over India sending pink underwear (chaddis) to offices of an ultra-conservative\, right-wing group which had\, on and around Valentine’s Day\, resorted to moral policing and violence against pub-going couples (especially women). In the Bollywood film\, Chandigarh Kare Aashqui (2021)\, we see how the heroine’s revelation that she is a post-op transwoman causes anxieties in her alpha-male\, gym-trainer lover\, and reveals him to be homophobic. Gender also serves as the naturalized pathway to normalcy\, a position of dominance\, or a source of existential angst and never-ending struggles for recognition – depending on where in the myriad\, multi-layered hierarchies we find ourselves.      \nFor our December Issue\, we solicit submissions across categories\, which interrogate what gender means to us; how it intersects with class\, caste\, and sexuality to influence our lived realities; how different forms of kinship relations emanate from and support different gender configurations and vice versa; how individuals – males\, females\, intersex – irrespective of their sexual orientation\, resist\, and consolidate their gendered selves; how the hegemony of heteronormativity structures modern cultural discourse\, as well as our own ideas of personhood\, and the ways we can and do resist this. \nFeel free to rummage through your memories\, parse popular culture\, reflect on contemporary socio-political developments\, and critique through your fiction\, poetry\, essays\, interviews\, and reviews\, those gendered structures which make the world around you\, which make you\, you\, and how these can be challenged\, subverted\, consolidated\, and written. \nWe look forward to your submissions. \nOur submission process has changed. We now accept submissions only through our website. Please familiarise yourself with the updated submission process and do NOT hesitate to ask for help at info@usawa.in or social@usawa.in \nDeadline: 20 September 2024 \nWe pay our contributors \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Guidelines \nUsawa Contributor Registration: Please fill the form for each submission. All submissions except visual narratives will be made through the form. \nSubmission Format: \nAll submissions apart from visual narratives are to be made through the form. Please follow the instructions attached to ensure that your submission reaches us. \nCompose your brief (~80 words) bio in the third person at the end of your submission. Please ensure to include your photograph and social media handles. \nPayment Policy: \nAs of December 2023\, Usawa has become a paying market. \nSubmission Limitations: \nYou may submit up to one entry for each genre during a given submission period. \nAlthough we prefer exclusive submissions\, we understand if you choose to make simultaneous submissions. In such cases\, please promptly notify us if another publication accepts your piece before our review. To withdraw your submission\, kindly contact the sectional editor and the Managing Editor by email. \nPlease be aware that any work published in Usawa cannot be reprinted in any other publication\, whether online or in print\, until six months after the initial publishing date. After this period\, we request that you send us a formal intimation and credit Usawa wherever the piece is republished by contacting our Managing Editor. \nSection Guidelines \nPoetry:  \nPlease submit 4-6 poems. \nUsawa will be publishing unpublished poems only. However\, poems that have been shared on the author’s social media are acceptable. \nIf you have previously published work that strongly resonates with our theme kindly share the same with our Poetry Editor\, Babitha Marina Justin\, at babitha@usawa.in stating why you would like the piece to be considered. The body of editors will review it collectively and take a decision accordingly. \nShort Fiction: \nSubmit short fiction of length between 2000-5000 words. \nWhile our primary focus is on literary fiction that explores the depth and complexity of the human experience\, we are also open to exceptional works of genre fiction that push boundaries and offer fresh perspectives. Bring us stories with emotional depth\, vivid characterization\, and inventive storytelling. \nOur Fiction Editor\, Kinshuk Gupta\, can be reached at kinshuk@usawa.in for queries. \nNonfiction:  \nSubmit nonfiction of length up to 5000 words. \nWe are looking for pieces that reflect honesty of the experience\, personal or from the point of witness. What are you subverting? Why? Send us well-crafted writings\, especially essays\, or even hybrid pieces\, in a way that we look at the world anew even though the facts remain the same. We’re most excited by not only reading about things little known or talked about\, but also by pieces that subvert and surprise. \nOur Nonfiction Editor\, Smita Sahay\, can be reached at smita@usawa.in for queries.
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