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SUMMARY:PFN -  All My Relations Seeking Submissions on Volume 9's Theme of: Revolution
DESCRIPTION:All My Relations is an art and literature magazine exploring themes of interconnectedness. Volume 9 explores the theme of “revolution\,” and is open to racially and ethnically marginalized\, gender variant\, and disabled creatives only. \nVolume 1 explored the theme of familial (blood\, adopted\, affirming\, community\, or other “family”) loss or ancestry. Volume 2 explored the themes of colonization and decolonization. Volume 3 explored the theme of belonging. Volume 4 explored the themes of disability and accessibility. Volume 5 explored the theme of overcoming. Volume 6 explored the theme of resistance. Volume 7 explored the theme of rest. Volume 8 explored the theme of honoring our lost. Read all the past volumes here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToo often we feel like revolutionary acts need to be larger than life\, involving charismatic leaders\, and so we get stuck doing nothing. But everything we do that runs counter to the colonial\, capitalist\, white supremacist world we live in is the revolution.\n– Chris Talbot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Information & Volume 9’s Theme\n\n\n\n\nWe are not looking for graphic or traumatic stories or dark fictional pieces written for shock value. We do not require that you center your or your relations’ traumas. And we are not interested in the single story of harm and suffering. \nWe are looking for memories and imaginations of revolutions and revolutionaries\, explanations of rituals and strategies to aid us in revolution\, and envisioning a future following a successful revolution. We are looking for pieces that honor your experience\, honor your journey\, honor your imaginations\, and/or aid in communal healing and hope. \nWe have a set of guidelines for what we will or will not read or publish for the emotional well-being of our readers (internally and externally). Please review those guidelines (below) and only send us authentic\, own voices (if applicable) pieces that follow them. (The principle of own voices means that pieces that refer to marginalized groups and their experiences are created by people who share that identity. Pieces that follow the principle of own voices reflect the contributors’ own lived experiences and perspectives. Proximity to people with a lived experience is not a proxy for having that lived experience and will not be considered adhering to the own voices guideline.) \nWe do not accept pieces that use AI content creation\, including ChatGPT. AI content is plagiarism\, even though the systems have been formulated to modify the end result from the stolen materials just enough to be indetectable and circumvent copyright laws. AI copies existing works by existing creatives without their knowledge or consent. It is an inappropriate and inequitable tool for content submitted to All My Relations\, especially as\, at this time\, the person using it can’t track down and fairly compensate the original creators for their work. \nWe are committed to editing with an equity lens\, ensuring any edits are for clarity and not stylistic in nature. We are committed to never alter a writing style\, the intention of a piece\, or change the voice in any way. If we ever fail or come up short in this attempt\, please do let us know. \nWe are free to submit to and free to read. We will accept one written piece per person. \nSubmissions are open and will close when we have reached 100 pages of content or July 5\, whichever comes first. To submit\, fill out our submission form (one piece per entry in the form). Be sure to read all of our guidelines below before submitting. \nBecause our issues often deal with mature topics\, our publication is open to creatives aged 16+ only. \n\n\nSubmission Requirements\n\n\n\n\nWe expect submissions to be on the theme of “revolution” and submitted by racially or ethnically marginalized\, gender variant\, and/or disabled creatives only. \nWe require written submissions to be under 5\,000 words for fiction and nonfiction and under 5 pages for poetry\, submitted in a Word Document or text file. PDFs will not be considered and will be rejected outright. Submissions must be in English as\, unfortunately\, that is the only language we can read. Do feel free to add words in a language other than English and we will consult Google or other resources\, but the submission must be primarily in English. \nWe require that you properly gender our editor. Any submission that misgenders will be responded to unread. If you wish to address the editor\, you can do so as editor\, The Bitchin’ Kitsch\, The B’K\, or Chris. If you wish to speak about our editor\, they use the pronouns they/them. \nWe will accept simultaneous submissions. Please let us know if it is a simultaneous submission (in the “Anything you want our editors to know about your piece” section of the form) and let us know as soon as you do if it has been accepted elsewhere and if you have permissions for it to appear as a reprint in this publication. \nOur form requires the following information: your name as you’d like it to appear\, the name of the piece as you’d like it to appear\, trigger warnings if necessary\, and answers to our identity questions. \nWe aim to have a diverse publication from a diverse set of voices. In order to make sure we do that\, we need to know who you are. We will not deny someone based on identity unless it is deemed that the submission becomes inappropriate or appropriation due to the submitter’s identity. Things that we would consider inappropriate or appropriation would include writing about what it’s like to be part of a historically marginalized community you do not belong to. We encourage people outside of the community to include people from historically marginalized communities\, but we won’t publish pieces that explain what it’s like to be part of those communities. We value inclusivity and believe the only way to do it right is with #OwnVoices. \nWe don’t want to read something that might be triggering without being in the right head space. We would hate to deny something because it caught us off guard at a bad time. If appropriate\, please include a trigger warning. Before you submit\, make sure that it will not violate our submission guidelines (see the full list below). \n\n\nList of Violations to Avoid\n\n\n\n\nThese are the things that will be rejected and could get you temporarily or permanently banned from The B’K and All My Relations. \nIf your submission violates any of the guidelines below\, you will be informed and temporarily banned from submitting for one month’s time. A rejection for violating a guideline is not the start of an argument. You don’t have to agree with our guidelines\, but if you choose to submit to our publication\, you have to follow our rules. \nThe temporary ban is as much for submitters as it is for us. We want to make sure that we are reviewing your submission with an open mind\, and can’t do that if you are rapid firing “proof” that you can write something else. \nIf it is a flagrant violation or you argue with us or respond aggressively to a rejection for any reason\, you will be permanently banned. \nLikewise\, even if your submissions to us are not problematic\, but we are informed of problematic behavior outside of our publication against people from marginalized communities and can verify it\, you will not be welcome to our publication and we reserve the right to remove your work from past issues. \n\nThe piece implicates you in a crime.\nThe piece is partially or fully plagiarized. This includes work that is AI-generated (AI is plagiarism — it copies existing works from existing creatives without their permission.) or the majority/focus of the piece makes use of images that were not created by you (examples: photographs of murals — yes\, you took the photograph\, but the focus is on someone else’s mural; collages where the collage pieces have not been radically altered and are therefore someone else’s work).\nThe piece uses fridging of marginalized people or children (the trope where a marginalized person is injured\, killed\, or demoralized in some way to move a privileged person’s story or character development forward).\nThe piece reduces people from marginalized genders or races to body parts\, objects\, or in another way dehumanizes them.\nThe piece’s main focus is sexual attraction or exploitation.\nThe piece is erotica or is sexually explicit.\nThe piece sexualizes a child. This means anyone under 18 years old\, no matter what.\nThe piece glorifies or sexualizes violence against marginalized genders.\nThe piece mentions or implies molestation\, sexual assault\, or r*pe\n\nThere is NO wiggle room on this. Our editor is a survivor and will not subject themself to the pain of reading this.\nAny violation of this guideline will result in an instant permanent ban from our publication. The trauma is too great and therapy is too expensive to deal with this.\n\n\nThe piece includes content or slurs that could be considered racist\, xenophobic\, queerphobic\, transphobic\, sexist\, misogynistic\, fetishist\, antisemitic\, Islamophobic\, ableist\, audistic\, or in any other way offensive to a protected class or minority. Your piece will be rejected unless it is made clear within the piece or in an artist statement at the end that the behavior/language is unacceptable\, proper content warnings are provided\, and the word is in some way censored in the piece (vowels replaced with * as an example we’ve accepted). While I understand that some people are reclaiming words that have been used to disparage people that share an identity\, not all our readers from that identity will be reclaiming that word and we need to think of their well-being as well.
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