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SUMMARY:N - HerStry Seeking Submissions for the New "Coming Out" Series
DESCRIPTION:June is Pride Month\, and we want to share the beautiful (and often tought) moments of coming out. Everyone has a different story and a different path to coming out. Some of us have been hurt while some of us have been embraced in ways we never imagined possible. Don’t be afraid to share the rawness of it all\, the hurt as well as the beauty. \n** HerStry is always happy to share stories anonymously—if your story is selected for publication\, simply let your editor know you would not like your name shared ** \nTHE RULES:  \n\nAll stories must be true and about you.\nStories must follow the theme in some way\, interpretations can be wide.\nStories must stay around 3\,000 words.\nDocuments should be double spaced\, 12Pt font with 1 inch margins and in an easy to read font. Submissions not following these guidelines are subject to disqualification. Our editors read a lot of work\, please have mercy on our eyes.\nSubmissions must be in .doc or .docx form—we do not accept PDFs.\nStories are read blind. Please DO NOT put any identifying material on your manuscript. Manuscripts that don’t follow this rule will be automatically disqualified without being read. We realize personal essays may contain your name; a first name is fine.\nPlease include a third person bio. Cover letters are fine\, but not necessary (we don’t read them\, we’re more interested in what you’ve written).\nPlease submit only once per theme.\nWe do not accept previously published stories.\n\nHerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. We’re looking for work from bigender/polygender persons\, cisgender women\, intergender persons/intersex persons\, nonbinary persons/gender non-conforming persons\, transgender women/transfeminine persons\, two spirit. In other words\, if you are a cis man\, please refrain from submitting. \n WANT PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK? \nYou can now receive helpful feedback by selecting the “personalized critique” option on our submissions page. While getting your work critiqued does not guarantee publication\, we can help make it great for your next submissions\, whether it’s to us or someone else. \n$3 submission fee goes toward keeping HerStry sustainable and paying our staff. All accepted pieces receive $20 payment. \n DUE MAY 1ST \nSubmission fee: $3
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SUMMARY:N - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Seeking Submissions on: Feminism\, Antifeminism\, and the Mobilization of Regret
DESCRIPTION:Feminism\, Antifeminism\, and the Mobilization of Regret\nFeminism is forward-looking and world-building. Feminists everywhere can call to mind the manifestos\, mobilizations\, solidarities\, creative inspirations\, legal propositions\, and revolutionary paradigms that inspire us to action and move us toward more just futures. At the same time\, we may also be haunted by obstacles encountered\, losses experienced\, and regrets felt along the way. With over fifty years of feminist history behind the journal—and\, we hope\, another fifty years of feminist troublemaking ahead—Signs seeks essays that delineate both how feminists may experience\, theorize\, and productively apply the concept of regret and how it may\, alternatively\,  thwart the development of feminist futures. \nAs Andrea Long Chu asserts\, “Where there is freedom\, there will always be regret. . . . Regret is freedom projected into the past.” Janet Landman\, similarly\, has conceptualized regret as signifying the “persistence of the possible.” On the one hand\, how can feminists engage these generative qualities of regret—freedom and possibility—in our thinking and action? If there are choices that we\, individually or collectively\, regret\, how might our regrets motivate political or personal choices? On the other\, how do false narratives deployed by the Right\, such as threats of regret over abortion or gender transition\, act to undermine individual transformation and broader social change? \nWe seek essays that make theoretical\, analytical\, and/or activist interventions. We welcome papers that engage the complex dynamics and larger contexts of regret\, from the personal\, emotional\, and creative realms to the social\, political\, and empirical; or that consider how regret converges with or departs from related affective terrains of shame\, guilt\, grief\, or nostalgia. As always\, Signs encourages transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions\, debates\, and forms of literary\, artistic\, and cultural representation and that minimize disciplinary or academic jargon. \nPossible areas of focus might include: \n\nHow is regret\, as affect and as political discourse\, constructed in relation to gender\, race\, class\, sexuality\, nationality\, and history? Whose harms are considered regrettable\, and whose are merely collateral damage?\nHow do regressive cultural phenomena such as “gender-critical” discourse; crusades against diversity\, equity\, and belonging initiatives; book banning; or “incel” culture position the loss of white\, heterosexual\, cisgender hegemony as regrettable? How can feminist action and discourse counter such framings?\nSome feminist and antiracist social media movements\, such as #MeToo/#BalanceTonPorc/#YoTambien\, #ShoutYourAbortion\, or #BlackLivesMatter\, resist social discourses that cast violent harm as a result of regrettable individual actions (such as what someone was wearing or where they were walking). Such movements resist regret and transform silence into speech; are they successful in dismantling power structures?\nRegret may stem from conflict within feminist movements. For example\, regret may result in or from efforts to “call in” or “call out” negative behavior in our classrooms\, communities\, and online spaces. Must such regret end in irresolvable conflict\, or can it produce new coalitions?\nSetbacks in progress toward political goals—for example\, the overturning of Roe v. Wade—may lead to regret for past strategic choices. Such regret has the potential to cause paralysis or apathy; can it instead embolden us to develop new and more effective strategies?\nThe social\, political\, and economic conditions of late capitalism around the world—such as lack of childcare\, eldercare\, healthcare\, and housing—force impossible “choices” in relation to parenting\, intimate relations\, and work and create the conditions for regret. Nationalist ideologies of gender and family recast such constraints as “natural” and necessary. How can feminists counter such constraints and distortions?\nIn “From a Survivor\,” Adrienne Rich writes regretfully of her marriage and her husband’s suicide\, “I don’t know who we thought we were / that our personalities/ could resist the failures of the race. . . . / Like everybody else\, we thought of ourselves as special.” Where and how do regret and its related affects (shame\, grief\, loss\, nostalgia) appear in or structure feminist art and literature?\n\nThe deadline for submissions is May 1\, 2025. Laura Green (Northeastern University) and Chris Bobel (University of Massachusetts Boston) will serve as guest editors. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through Signs’ Editorial Manager system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/signs/default.aspx and must conform to the guidelines for submission available at http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/author-guidelines/.
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Bi Women Quarterly's Summer 2025 Issue. Theme: Finding Community
DESCRIPTION:Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to bi+ women who identify as trans\, non-binary\, cis\, and beyond.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummer 2025: Finding Community\n\n\n\n\nHow do bi+ people find community? Write about your experience navigating the world as a bi+ person and trying to find your own community\, whether that be a friend group\, chosen family\, knitting circle\, or so on. Did you join a club or organization that led to you making some of your closest queer friends? Did you meet your best friend on a dating app? Did you start a group or meetup? Explain how you successfully overcame the struggles society forces upon us as LGBTQ+ individuals and how\, through it all\, you found your own community. Submit by May 1\, 2025. \nBWQ 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease submit your words in a word document (.doc\, docx or .rtf) or in the body of an email. Use single spacing\, 11 pt font in Adobe Garamond Pro (or closest available 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. \nBi 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”). \nNote 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 \nSubmission 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. Mail all submissions and pitches to biwomeneditor@gmail.com. \nBefore 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. \nPLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AT THE TOP OF YOUR SUBMISSION:\n\nYour name:\nYour email address:\nYour Twitter or other social media handles (if public):\nThe name you wish to use in BWQ: (you are welcome to use a pseudonym or modify your actual name):\nName of the piece you are submitting:\nA 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:\nFinally\, 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.
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