Call for Submissions: Feminine Voices on Sexism in the Queer Community, a Zine

Deadline: 23 May 2011

The Berlin Femme Mafia presents Feminine Voices on Sexism in the Queer Community, a zine.

Call for submissions!


Have you ever felt excluded from or experienced prejudice in the queer community because of your gender expression? The Berlin Femme Mafia is creating a zine of stories about sexism in the worldwide queer community by feminine trans* folk and queers.

The Berlin Femme Mafia knows that sexism against femininities continues in the queer community and we want all our feminine-identified trans* and queer sisters to share their perspective. Why does this gender inequality still exist in a self-named 'feminist' movement? We want to hear your thoughts about and experiences of discrimination against female and feminine gender expressions.

This project will be from the perspective of queer and trans* feminine folk and focus on sexism against our expressions of femininity. We invite contributions from all self-defined trans* and queer femininities, including trans*women, femmes, genderqueers, and queer ciswomen and -men with a feminine gender expression, no matter if part or full-time feminine.

Tell us about the stuff that makes you angry or sad. This can include being excluded for the way you walk, talk, dress, and negative comments about female bodies. Tell us what you would like to see change. What would a perfect queer community look like to you? Queertopia!

Contributions can be anything that will fit onto a half-size page, including creative writing, personal accounts of incidents, theory and artwork. We will print the zine in German and English, but will do our best to translate submissions in other languages into English.

To be included in a zine project by the Berlin Femme Mafia and made available online and in Berlin.

Contributions should be emailed to Laura at pinklab[at]hotmail[dot]com

DEADLINE: 23rd May 2011

N.B. For artwork, please send as pdf or write for postal address. Note that the zine will be in 'half size' or A5 format. (148 x 210 mm -- 5.8 x 8.3 inches)

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Call for Submissions - Crossing Germania: Dialogues in Queer German Studies (special inaugural issue)

Deadline: 10 January 2011

CROSSING GERMANIA is a forum for the exchange of questions, positions, and ideas in Queer German Studies. A peer-reviewed, open-access dialogic journal, Crossing Germania explores queer approaches to all aspects of literature, culture, theory, and pedagogy relevant to Germanic contexts. Contributions consider intersections between Queer Studies and German Studies, including intermedial, transdisciplinary, and idiosyncratic methodologies. Crossing Germania negotiates and reflects on challenges, subversions, and transformations of these intersections in and for the 21st century.

Call for Papers: Special Inaugural Issue

The editors of Crossing Germania are delighted to announce a special inaugural issue entitled “What’s queer in/about German Studies now?” We invite contributions that examine intersections between German Studies and Queer Studies in any area of literature, culture, theory, and pedagogy relevant to Germanic contexts. Because the journal issue seeks to stimulate discussion on unconventional approaches to and with the word “queer,” pieces that articulate open questions or take polemical stances are especially welcome. On an ongoing basis, the editors of Crossing Germania are interested in submissions that consider global as well as local approaches to the “big questions” about the histories, identities, and ambitions of our discipline:

• What is German Studies and what status do queer subjects and approaches have in the discipline?

• How might interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, as well as mobility across media, be supported or contested by notions of queer?

• How can we historicize the term “queer” for German Studies - what is the trajectory of queer in German Studies?

• How - and why - have German Studies developed different relationships to Gender Studies and Queer Studies - within the discipline as well as in comparison to other disciplines? And what about the difference between such tendencies in Germanistik and German Studies?

• Are Queer Studies and queer theory still alive? What is new in Queer Studies 20 years after its creation?

• What does queer pedagogy mean today? How can we envision and mobilize a queer language teaching or a queer linguistics? Is “queer” a relevant category of analysis for undergraduate students?

• How can we imagine queering the textual corpus in our scholarly and pedagogical toolbox (the literary canon and textbooks we teach, as well as the objects of our research)?

Interested contributors should send 500-word proposals in English to CrossingGermania@knox.edu by January 10, 2011. Notifications of acceptance will be sent in February. Complete articles in English, German, or French are due by July 31, 2011.

Journal Editors:

• Sonja Klocke, Knox College (sklocke@knox.edu)

• Carrie Smith-Prei, University of Alberta (carrie.smith-prei@ualberta.ca)

• Faye Stewart, Georgia State University (fayestewart@gsu.edu)

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