Call for Submissions - Shark Dating: Inspirational and Instructive Manual for Queer and Trans Femmes

Deadline: 1 October 2011

As queer and trans femmes of color and Indigenous femmes, it's often easy to think, remember and speak on the vast degrees of bullshit we can face when we try and create the love, s3x and desir3 that is our birthright. We face vast amounts of vi0lence, abus3, disrespect, terrible game, femmephobia, s3xism, inability of our dates to be honest or emotionally responsible, heart hurtingness. It's easy to get depressed by stupid moves, abus3, trans misogyny, colonialism, ableism, shadism, fatphobia, classism, racism, the idea of s3xual scarcity, femme competition, the effects all of the above has on our communities leading to everyone we love being traumatiz3d, etc.

HOWEVER, we also know that we are geniuses at creating the love and s3x we desir3. We are so smart at finding our lovers, making love so many different ways. It is important that we share this proof of what is possible, as a reminder to ourselves and each other of what is possible and what we have created, a show and tell of how much queer femmes of colo(u)r and Indigenous femmes are a gift from God to ourselves and our communities and revolutionary magic makers and world changers, and as a recording of our lives in the face of WSCCAP* erasure.

To the end of documenting and recording femme of colo(u)r and Indigenous femme existence and resistance, please share a story of a date you have been on. This can be written, drawn, collaged, photographed or in a song. It can be a poem, a journal entry, an experiment. "Date" is also wide open- it doesn't have to be dinner and a movie with a corsage. It could be any moment of s3xual, loving and/or romantic badassness that saved your ass, changed your life, rocked your world. It could be with yourself. It could be with any gender of person. The only limit is that you identify as a queer femme of colo(u)r or Indigenous femme.

"Femme" here is defined as a spectrum of gender that looks and feels different on many different kinds of bodies, but, in general, is about the radical, life-saving power, dignity and beautiful resistance of feminine of center/femme/femme of center ness. Femme is not just about being a girl, and certainly not just about being a ciswoman or cisgirl. It is a queer gender, and that can also look, feel, smell, taste and be many different flavors.

Deadline: October 1, 2011. Email brownstargirl@gmail.com. 1000 word limit, please also include contact info and a 100 word bio.

WSCCAP: The white supremacist capitalist colonialist ableist patriarchy.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: brownstargirl@gmail.com

For submissions: brownstargirl@gmail.com

Website: http://www.brownstargirl.org/

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Femenace Creative Writing Workshop at the Centre for Women and Trans People (Ontario)

Deadline: 26 June 2011

Join us at the Centre for Women and Trans People to celebrate the launch of Femenace, hosted by the new Femenace Blog.

Do you want to write, have ideas that you can't get down on paper or into a blank word document? Are you unsure about how to get started? Thoughts and feelings and no outlet for them?

Overcome these barriers in a workshop led by writer, teacher and arts educator Dianah Smith. Get advice on how to generate ideas and creative flow.

Everyone is welcome. Free to attend, but limited space. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm

Address: 563 Spandina Avenue, Room 100, North Borden Building, Toronto, Ontario

We are wheelchair accessible through Bancroft Avenue (back entrance)

Contact Information:

For inquiries: femenace@gmail.com

Website: http://womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca

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Call for Papers on Transvestitism in Fiction and Drama: Transatlantic Gender-Crossings (NeMLA Convention, NY)

Deadline: 30 September 2011

This panel seeks papers on gender-crossings in fiction and drama by authors on both sides of the Atlantic. Topics might include a variety of literary and performative crossings, which transgress and re-imagine gender roles, or challenge the notion of discrete binaries of gender and sexuality. Of particular interest are papers that explore the ways in which literary masquerades, transvestitisms, and carnivalesque versions of gender or sexual identity intersect with issues of race, class, and national identity.

Mikhael Bakhtin sees the carnivalesque performance itself as a “temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order; it mark[s] the suspension of all hierarchical rank, privileges, norms, and prohibitions.” For Judith Butler, all gender is performative, but she distinguishes between the “punitive and regulatory social conventions” at stake for “doing gender wrong” in the real world and the socially acceptable gendered act in a stage performance. In the real world, with “no theatrical conventions to delimit the purely imaginary character of the act . . . there is no presumption that the act is distinct from a reality.” In what ways is a carnivalesque performance an expression of real identities or desires, and in what ways is it an expression of the imagination? In what ways does masquerade or transvestitism allow the performer to merge real and imaginary identities? Proposals on American, British, or Caribbean literatures from the long eighteenth-century to the present will be considered.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract to Anita Duneer at aduneer@ric.edu.

Please include with your abstract:

• Name and Affiliation
• Email address
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• A/V requirements ($10 handling fee with registration per person; two person per panel minimum for Media Projector)

The 43rd Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. For the complete Call for Papers for the 2012 convention, visit www.nemla.org.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. Do not accept a slot if you may cancel to present on another session.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: Anita Duneer at aduneer@ric.edu

For submissions: Anita Duneer at aduneer@ric.edu

Website: http://www.nemla.org/

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Call for Submissions: Fuck Yeah Lady Writers

Fuck Yeah Lady Writers is currently accepting submissions. FYLW is a blog created with the intent to engender greater interest in lady writers as well as to inform people about the surprising level and number of discrepancies presently existing in the treatment of lady writers as opposed to gentlemen writers. For more information, please read our About page.

We still want your cigarettes and your morals, your petty kindnesses, the long of your short and everything in between. Insolong as it pertains to female writers in a positive/inspiring/supportive manner, we want it. We don’t care if you’re male so long as whatever you’re submitting is relevant to the mission of the blog and, so you know, we define “ladies” as anyone who identifies as being female.

Submission Guidelines:

* Quotations, art, video, audio, excerpts, interviews and biographical information from/about female writers are all accepted.
* Inappropriate, duplicate or unrelated material will be removed.
* We here at FYLW also love male writers, but please don’t send us stuff by/about them unless they are talking about a lady writer. We are defining ladies as anyone who identifies as female.
* If you would like to be credited for your submission via a link to your own blog, please include the URL in the body of the submission.

Contact Information:

For submissions: click here

Website: http://fuckyeahladywriters.tumblr.com/

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Deadline Extended - Call for Submissions: "Transgendered" Issue of MP Online Feminist Journal

Deadline: 31 August 2011 (from 21 April 2011)

Can there be a multi-gendered feminism? MP journal seeks submissions that explore the many facets of transgendered feminism. How do transgendered people experience, embrace, reject, or practice feminism? What is the role of feminism within queer studies? What is the role of feminism for those who occupy the interstice between male and female? Is gender performance feminist? MP Journal welcomes academic papers, book reviews, and other well-written inquiries on the subject of transgendered feminisms. Internationals submissions are encouraged. Submissions may be in any accepted academic format such as MLA, APA, Legal Bluebook, Chicago Style but must be consistent throughout and thoroughly and carefully edited. Please send the submission, a 50 word bio, and a CV before midnight August 31, 2011.

Submission Guidelines

We accept submissions from all types of writers. In order to be considered, all submissions should:

* be scholarly/academic in nature;
* use a standard citation format such as MLA, Chicago, APA, or Harvard Bluebook;
* be sent as an attachment (*.doc, *.txt, *.rtf — no *.pdf, please!);
* include a CV or writing resume and a 50 word bio;
* abide by the copyright and image use information listed below.

Please download and review our style guide for additional instructions.

Send submission to: llhinkle(at)academinist.org

Copyright Information

In order to assure the widest possible audience for the work published in MP, that work is added, by contractual agreement, to one or more EBSCO Publishing databases. The users of those databases have access and limited copying privileges with respect to work appearing in MP. Your submission indicates that this arrangement is acceptable to you and that upon acceptance you agree to license your work to MP Journal and to its sub-licensor, EBSCO Publishing. You further confirm that the work has not been published prior to its appearance in MP. In addition, you confirm it is original work that abides by all copyright rules and regulations. You understand that, upon publication, all rights to this work will revert to you, the author. However, you also understand that MP reserves the right to publish this work (in part or in its entirety) in electronic form on its website and/or on electronic information databases published by others.

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Contact Information:

For inquiries: llhinkle(at)academinist.org

For submissions: llhinkle(at)academinist.org

Website: http://academinist.org/

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Call for Submissions: Issue 8 and 9 of Bolt Magazine, the Magazine for Bisexual, Lesbian and Trans Women in Ireland

Deadline: 11 May 2011 (issue 8), 13 July 2011 (issue 9)

BoLT Issue 8 and 9 Call for Submissions

Issue 8: The International Issue

Issue 9: The Local Issue

BoLT magazine has always been proud of trying to expand, to look past horizons and leap over barriers. So far, we have focused on our Irish LGBTQ community, and most of our pieces have been from people living on the island of Ireland. For issue 8 we have decided to spread our wings and ask for submissions from people living around the world who have an Irish connection. We would particularly welcome submissions on experiences of Irish people living abroad or travelling, as well as LGBTQ or women’s activism across the world. Whether you have a story that you would like to share, an opinion piece or a profile of an exciting project that you have been involved with we would be delighted to hear about it.


And with Issue 9, we intend to bring the focus back to our communities in Ireland, giving special priority to people outside the well-documented, resource-rich urban areas of Ireland. We are looking for people to talk about what it is like to be LGBTQ in their local region, their town, village or county. Is there a difference between your experiences in rural and urban areas in Ireland? Are some areas more supportive of LGBT lives? What does 'local' mean to you? We know that there are diverse experiences of coming out, creating families and building lives, and we want to hear about them. We would particularly welcome submissions from women and trans masculine spectrum people in rural areas. If you are a group that provides services to local LGBTQ women or trans masculine people in rural communities in Ireland, we would love to profile you and work together to increase the visibility of LGBTQ people outside the big cities.

We would like to call for submissions for both our eighth and ninth issues to highlight the diversity of our LGBTQ women's community at home and abroad. As always, we also encourage you to write about other pressing issues you feel you'd like to write about. And if you want to become a regular writer, talk to us about that! We are always looking for people to come onboard!

The deadline for submissions for issue 8 is May 11th , 2011 and for issue 9 is July 13th.

Written submissions can be stories, poetry, opinion pieces, book/film/music reviews and interviews. Written submissions should be no longer than 1500 words. For written submissions, please contact us at editor@boltmagazine.ie

More information here.

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The Gatewood Prize for a Collection of Poems by a Woman/ Trans

Deadline: 1 June 2011

The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language. It is named after Emma Gatewood, the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.

2011 Judge: Harryette Mullen

Reading Period: April 1-June 1, 2011

Harryette Mullen's most recent books are Recyclopedia (Graywolf Press, 2006) and Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California Press, 2002), a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mullen was the 2009 recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Fellowship Award. She teaches African American literature and creative writing in the English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

General Terms:

Poet must be a woman; our definition of "woman" is broad and includes transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and female-identified individuals.

Multiple submissions are acceptable, but each manuscript must be entered under separate cover and fee.

You must let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted by another publisher while under our consideration.

No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be considered; the winning manuscript may be revised before publication.

Translations ineligible.

Manuscripts by close friends and former students of the judge are ineligible. If the judge would recognize your manuscript for any reason, please wait until next year to enter the contest.

Co-written collections are eligible provided both poets meet all eligibility requirements.

Submissions will be read by Switchback editors and staff members. We will select ten manuscripts to send on to the judge, who will choose the final winner.

Manuscripts remain anonymous until a winner is selected. Please remove any identifying references from your manuscript (including those in the body of the manuscript).

Entries that do not meet these terms may be disqualified. Please email becca [at] switchbackbooks [dot] com with any questions.

Manuscript Requirements:

Manuscripts should be between 48 and 80 pages, paginated.

Please include a cover page with ONLY the title of the manuscript.

Table of contents recommended.

No acknowledgments page.

Notification: You will be notified of the winner and finalists of the contest via email.

Entry Fee:

Option 1: $18 for reading fee only

Option 2: $25 for reading fee and a book of your choice from our catalog (a 50% discount). Please specify which book on the Submishmash form; if you don't specify, we'll send you a random book.

All payments will be accepted via Submishmash. We do not accept cash, checks, or money orders.

Submission Format:

Please visit our page at Submishmash to submit your manuscript:

http://switchbackbooks.submishmash.com/submit

Deadline: Manuscripts will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on June 1, 2011.

Submit here.

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Call for Submissions: Attachment Parenting Our Way Zine (transgender inclusive)

Deadline: 1 June 2011

AP Our Way: Disabled Parents Making Attachment Parenting Work for Us and Making Peace with When We Can’t

Most books on the style of parenting popularly known as “attachment parenting” or “AP” are from the perspective of and written toward abled parents, with at most a nod toward “learn the difference between the baby blues and PPD with 10 highly patronizing stereotyped questions!” And too often those of us who need professional assistance of one form or another hear nothing but discouragement for our “silly ideas” from the people paid to help us (or our family!), and are often told even parenting “normally” is “too hard” for us or on us and we’d only be “making it worse” for ourselves by implementing tools of attachment.

AP Our Way, a self-published zine anthology, intends to blow raspberries at both camps. Attachment parenting is more than a checklist of choices: it’s about respecting the personhood of children and their inherent need for close relationships with and responsiveness from their family, which can be accomplished whether or not we lactate or babywear or cosleep. Living with disabilities means we know that we can’t care for others if we’re overtaxing ourselves, but that we aren’t incapable or less-than: that in a world not built for us, we have to find our own way — and mostly do, as hard as it sometimes is. AP Our Way will collect and present stories, poetry, graphic art, diatribes and more on how we made the ideals and tools of attachment parenting work for us — and made peace with reality when we didn’t.

AP Our Way explicitly supports the ideas of attachment parenting (see Attachment Parenting International for more), but will include stories of when practices associated with AP did NOT work out, for whatever reason — and advocates letting go of guilt around this, or better yet, never having it in the first place.

Please focus submissions on how your disability(s) affected the choices you made and how you were able to implement your ideals — or how you came to peace compromising on — the following topics:

• sleep
• feeding
• birth
• babywearing
• diapering
• school
• discipline
• siblings
• childcare
• and beyond…
  

(If sufficient entries are received, the zine might be split into multiple issues by topic.)

Examples: your sleep disorder ruled out bedsharing; you found babywearing easier than pushing a stroller due to your use of mobility devices; breastfeeding was incompatible with your chemotherapy medications; a chronic illness meant you pared down your plans for elimination communication or cloth diapering; your need for health insurance meant you returned to work sooner than you’d like; being on disability leave made homeschooling easier; your latex allergy inspired a homebirth; you learned gentle discipline because your heart doctors warned yelling was dangerous for you; or despite all warnings to the contrary, despite not recognizing yourself in all the mainstream parenting bibles, you were able to parent exactly how you’d set out to. How did you manage, and how did you manage when you didn’t? How has your disability(s) affected your parenting, and vice versa? What is your story?

Who is invited to participate?

All parents with disabilities from all over the world are welcome to send submissions.
“Parents” for the purpose of AP Our Way includes parents of all sorts, including (but not limited to) adoptive parents, birth parents, step or blended family parents, queer parents, grandparents, noncustodial parents, single parents, teen parents, parents from poly families, and so on.

“Disabilities” includes all manner of physical, sensory, mobility, mental, emotional, cognitive, and developmental disabilities, chronic illnesses and conditions that impact your daily life in ways you consider significant.

We explicitly welcome submissions from parents of color/nonwhite parents; transgender parents; men, women and nonbinary gender parents; and parents for whom English is not the primary language.

You do not have to identify with the term “attachment parenting” to contribute to AP Our Way, nor agree entirely with all the precepts commonly attributed to an “AP” style of parenting. We only ask that your work reflect respect for the underlying philosophies of attachment parenting and address one or more of the topics listed above from an attachment parenting view.

Please send questions, queries, and submissions of graphic art (reproducible in black and white), poetry, and creative nonfiction (300-2000 words, as well as 100 word drabbles) to apourway at raisingmyboychick dot com. Attachments in RTF preferred; no .docx. Submissions are due no later than June 1, 2011.

About the editor: Arwyn has written at Raising My Boychick since December 2008 about her experience of attachment-inspired parenting while living with mental illness. Her work has been referenced in newspapers and magazines internationally and has appeared on the group blog Feminists With Disabilities. She edits the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer and the anonymous series Naked Pictures of Faceless People, both hosted at her blog.

Proceeds from the sale of the zine will go to support the Independent Publishing Resource Center, a non-profit self-publishing center in Portland Oregon, and other non-profit organizations.

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Call for Submissions/ Book Chapters: Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism

Deadline: 21 June 2011

Call for Book Chapters

Working Title: Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism

Lead Editors: Sarah Thompson, Gina Pond

The recent events surrounding Pantheacon 2011 and the internet-wide debate that followed it have raised awareness publicly of the issues surrounding gender and transgender in the wider Pagan community. This book will comprise a number of chapters, some invited and most by open submission, which will give all sides of the debate an opportunity to clearly state their positions. In a sense, the book will serve as a written equivalent of a talking-stick debate, whilst also making it possible to capture the sense of this historic time, as accurately as possible, in the words of the people involved. Though space is limited in the print version of the book, we hope to make all submitted papers that meet the submission criteria available for download on the web. The publication will be on a not-for-profit basis, with proceeds (if any) donated to a suitable charity/nonprofit (to be determined).

Invited chapters are being solicited from as many key people as possible.

It is our intention to make the book freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license online as an e-book, supporting the major formats (PDF, Kindle, epub, etc.). Print copies will be made available by print-on-demand and will be orderable online, via Amazon or by order via any bricks-and-mortar bookshop. Though we are not currently seeking a publisher, this is not ruled out so long as such a collaboration would serve to make the book more widely accessible.

We welcome chapter submissions on any of the following topics:

* Women's mysteries as related to gender and transgender
* Men's mysteries as related to gender and transgender
* Experiences of redacting a tradition to deal with issues surrounding gender and sexual preference
* Experiences of paganism from the point of view of transgendered people are particularly sought, though experiences of anyone who identifies as a member of any group less privileged than the normative default are also of significant relevance
* Anything else conceptually related to the above and the concept of the book

Who should submit:

* Anyone with direct experience of the issues outlined above will be given priority in refereeing, though anyone with something relevant to say may submit.
* For the avoidance of doubt, submissions are encouraged from all sides of the debate.

Submission Guidelines:

* No hard-and-fast size limit, but approx. 5 - 10 pages will be preferred.
* Submissions should be made electronically.
* The book will be typeset, so it's not necessary to make the submissions pretty.
* Microsoft Word or RTF format is fine, LaTeX is even better if you know it, since that will be the system used to typeset the book.
* Any illustrations or diagrams should be monochrome vector art in EPS format or images at at least 300 DPI at the printed resolution. If you need help with this, it can be arranged.
* Write from the heart, in your own words. To misquote Steven King, do not go lightly to the page. All content is valid, though the editors will steer authors away from prose that could be interpreted as an ad-hominem attack.
* Text may be edited for spelling, grammar and overall length. Major changes will be referred back to the authors. It is not the editors' will to censor any of the material in the book, but good writing and clear speech is something we nevertheless aim to achieve.
* Submissions should identify the background of the author's path sufficiently for a reader to be able to place the chapter in context.

Schedule:

* Notification of intent to submit a chapter: As soon as possible -- we need to know who is willing to submit a chapter as early as possible so we can maintain balance between the submissions. This will also help us make sure we have reviewers/subeditors lined up ahead of time. Please include a single-paragraph outline of the proposed content of the chapter and a brief author bio.
* Chapter submission deadline: Midnight Pacific time, June 21st 2011
* Chapter selection and reviewer/editor comments returned to authors, July 4th 2011
* Final copy from authors due Midnight Pacific time, August 1st 2011
* Final edit complete, galley proofs available: September 1st 2011
* Ebook release: November 1st 2011
* Artwork released to production: November 1st 2011
* Paper versions available: (Tentatively) December 1st 2011

Contact information:

* Latest information can be found at the web page http://cerridwen.st4r.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gender_and_Transgender_in_Modern_Paganism.
* Please direct questions and submissions to editors@st4.org

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Trans Inclusive: Women’s Worlds 2011 Young Aboriginal Women’s Creative Essay Contest (3 winners of $1,500/ Canada)

Deadline: 25 March 2011

Women’s Worlds 2011 - Young Aboriginal Women’s Creative Essay Contest

Calling all Young Aboriginal Women across Canada ages 16 to 29! Do you want to be part of one of the biggest gatherings of women in the world happening in Ottawa July 3rd to 7th?!

The Aboriginal Women’s Leadership Circle for Women’s Worlds 2011 invites young Aboriginal Women across Canada to submit their written, artistic, or otherwise creative submissions to attend Women’s Worlds 2011. We greatly value the participation of young Aboriginal women and would like to hear directly from YOU about why you want to be there!

10 winners in total will be selected

3 grand winners to be awarded an honorarium of $1,500 (one young First Nation woman, one young Inuit woman and one young Métis woman) plus the opportunity to present their essay at Women’s Worlds 2011.

7 winners to be awarded an honorarium of $1000

Who: Young Aboriginal Women (trans, Two-Spirit, gender non-conforming inclusive). First Nations, Métis, Inuit. status and non-status identified. Ages 16-29

Deadline to submit: Friday March 25th, 2011

Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2011

What is the Aboriginal Women’s Leadership Circle?

Women’s Worlds 2011 aspires to be a powerful celebration of voices and diversity. As Canada is host to this important event, the meaningful participation of Aboriginal women and the prominence of Indigenous women's issues are essential. WW 2011 participants should come away with a deeper understanding of Aboriginal women and Indigenous women, and with recognition of their immense knowledge and leadership as inspiration for a better world. This is why we identified the value of creating an Aboriginal Women's Leadership Circle, a volunteer advisory body comprised of Aboriginal [First Nations, Inuit, Métis] women. Just as the event's content and program should challenge colonialism and neo-colonialism in its various forms, the internal organizing process should, too. We believe the non-tokenistic involvement of Aboriginal/Indigenous women is vital to feminist organizing and convening.

More information about Women’s Worlds 2011 can be found on www.womensworlds.ca

Contest Guidelines

With your submission please also provide covering letter or email which tells us in 300 words or less why you would want to attend Women’s Worlds 2011 and how you plan on using the experience of Women’s Worlds 2011 within your life, work, or community?

WRITTEN:

In 800 to 1200 words max, tell us:

1) What does Aboriginal women’s leadership mean to you?

Some additional guiding questions to help you (however do not feel limited to just these):

1) When you think about the word “leadership” what does this personally mean to you? “Leadership” does not necessarily mean being an elected official or winning awards – it means different things to different people. Talk about this and how you feel about it.

2) Do you know any strong Aboriginal women? Who are they? Why are they strong to you?

OR ARTISTIC:

You may alternatively choose to answer the above by creating an artistic piece of your choosing that expresses how you feel. For example; visual art, photography, dance, video, theatre, etc. If you choose to do this, you can opt to submit the piece itself (if possible) by e-mail, taking a photograph, or sending it in the mail, or send us the link to your video if you choose this type of medium (preferably on www.youtube.com). A 200 to 400 word max description that references the piece and the two questions must accompany the artistic submission.

Submissions will be accepted in English, French, and Inuktitut. If you would like to submit in another Aboriginal language please let us know and we will do our best to ensure translation.

Email your written submission in a Word doc. attachment OR artistic submission by Friday March 25th to youngaboriginal@womensworlds.ca with your:

Name, E-mail address, Phone number, Age and Aboriginal identity (First Nations, Inuit, Metis status or non-status)

You can also send us your application by mail to:

Young Aboriginal Women’s Creative Essay Contest
Women’s Worlds 2011
55 Laurier Av. East , DMS 3192
Ottawa , Ontario, K1N 6N5

This award contest is in partnership with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network to ensure direct Aboriginal youth leadership and outreach

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Call for Submissions: Bodies of Work Transgender, Transsexual and Gender Variant Art and Literature Magazine

Deadline: 10 April 2011

We, the editors, are three trans artists who believe art and literature are two of the most vital parts to our world today. At this moment, there is no magazine which brings all transgender, transsexual and gender variant writers and artists to the forefront. We believe it is time to publish such a magazine!

The purpose of Bodies of Work is to publish and promote literature and art that celebrates the diverse visions and understandings of the transsexual, transgender and gender-variant international community through language and image. We want to inspire and be inspired by the innovative output of our communities and come together with trans artists of all genres in creative discourse. We want to engage and support our creative processes and learn how trans artists and writers create.

Bodies of Work will:

• Introduce a wide audience to literature and art by the trans and gender-variant community.
• Provide a unique opportunity for underrepresented writers and artists viewpoints.
• Discover and publish emerging and developing writers and artists.

Bodies of Work will be published both in print and on the web. Print costs are high, so our agenda is to build a website first and print 3 magazines a year when we have the funds.

We are currently seeking submissions for our inaugural issue! All trans and gender-variant artists, performers and writers are encouraged to submit work.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Prose and Poetry: Submit up to 8 pages of work(double-spaced, 12 pt.). It is best to send all of your work in one Microsoft Word (.doc) or text (.rtf) attachment.

Interview: We welcome interview submissions with a trans/gender variant artist/writer/performer. Up to 8 pages (double-spaced, 12 pt.)

Graphic files: Submit up to 5 visual art images or photographs. Photography and visual art should be sent using .tif files ( at least 300 dpi /300 pixels per inch resolution) or .jpeg files. Please include a short artist’s statement about the work submitted.

Songs and Sound Art: Submit up to five MP3 files. Please include a short artist’s statement about the work submitted. All sound art and music will be featured mostly on our website.

Video Art/Movies: Please send a URL to the work if it is online. If not, please send a DVD copy. Please include an artists statement about the work.

ALL submissions: Please include:A short bio (two sentences) with your name (as you want it to appear in print), email, phone, and mailing address.

Deadline for submissions to be considered for the inaugural issue will be April 10, 2011

Please send all submissions to: bodiesofworkmagazine@gmail.com

Editor Bios:

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a trans visual artist, illustrator, writer and performer. His work has shown nationally and he has performed and lectured widely across the United States. He sees touring as a thinly veiled excuse to karaoke with fine queers across America. His writing appears in several anthologies and recordings. Cooper is currently pursing a Master’s in Writing and Publishing while writing and illustrating his first novel and developing two non-fiction books. He now lives in Portland, Oregon and has never before had such curly hair.

Annie Danger is a trans artist and activist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works in live media with the hope to wheedle, entertain, woo, and cajole you into a smarter, stronger, more intimate dance with your hopes and your ethics. She has performed across the United States and illustrated a number of published texts as well as a wide variety of more thrilling, slapshod, and/or DIY projects. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM. You can find more about her at www.dangertattoos.com

Morty Diamond is a transsexual artist and writer living in Los Angeles, CA. He has edited two anthologies of trans writers: From the Inside Out, FTM and Beyond (Manic D Press, 2004) and Trans Love / Trans Sex (Manic D Press, forthcoming). He has also directed two films, Trannyfags and Trans Entities, focusing on sexuality within the trans community. Visit him at www.mortydiamond.com

More information here.

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Call for Submissions: Queer Pagan/ Witch Zine

Deadline: 12 March 2011

Call for submissions: a zine for pagans/heathens/witches/occultists who are trans and/or queer and who are involved or interested in social justice and anti-oppression frameworks and activism.

Are you some combination of trans, genderqueer, non-binary, and/or fall under any non-hetero orientation (queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, etc.)? Are you also a pagan, heathen, witch, and/or occultist? Have you felt alienated by most practitioners of your spirituality because of cissexism and essentialism, either implied or overt? Do you want to follow a pre-christian or nature-worshipping spirituality without all the cisnormative/heteronormative fertility-obsessed trappings? Do you feel alienated from paganism because you can’t relate to middle-class suburban or rural living, because you do not own your own home or have a yard to grow an herb garden (even if you could afford to)? Do you want to practice your beliefs without appropriating anyone else’s cultural heritage?

The zine will be half-size (5.5”x8”) format if/when printed, so please keep that in mind if you have a preference for how it looks. Please make any written works legible and in a size and font that is easy to read for those that may have varying degrees of sight-related disabilities (please type all written submissions, keep it a generic font and at least 12pt). English is not required but it would help if it were translatable so moderation of content is easier. I will accept .pdf, .doc (not docx!!), .rtf, or .txt files for written submissions (or just written in the body of an email is fine too), and pretty much any image format for any visual art or photography. Please try to keep the resolution of images 300 dpi and up.

Suggestions for submissions (or, a list of things I would eventually like to write about in the zine if nobody else does first):

* Personal experiences of implicit or explicit transphobia/heteronormativity/racism/ableism/classism/general bustedness in pagan groups/covens
* Critique of cissexism in pagan/wiccan/heathen core beliefs and mythologies
* Sample rituals, spells, or other practical things, which have been created or modified to make it more focused on dismantling kyriarchy
* Discussion of privilege in relation to paganism (i.e. when a pagan writer assumes all the readers are middle-class or higher, own their own home with a yard, have disposable income, and I could go on and on…)
* Incorporating your spiritual beliefs in with your anti-oppression work
* How to de-gender spirituality (or merely de-emphasize gender) and deconstruct sexist and essentialist narratives without shaming people for whom fertility *is* personally important, but deconstructing and decentralizing the standard cis-hetero-monogamous narrative
* Even though there has been a lot written about cultural appropriation in neo-paganism, I would definitely like to include pieces about this
* Also the idea that neo-pagans/wiccans/etc. are the Most Oppressed Religion In The U.S., which is an especially absurd mindset given the events of this past decade (see also: asshat atheists with persecution complexes, like Dawkins, etc.)
* Ableist anti-science and anti-medicine bias among pagans, and how that relates to being a trans person accessing/reliant on medical transition (ALSO if anyone has one or more disabilities and how that also ties ableism with anti-science bias in very similar ways)
* “Oh we’re not like THOSE people” attitudes among pagans/witches/herbalists that have classist/racist/ageist overtones, for example: “REAL pagans would never use cannabis or psilocybe mushrooms” or “witches are never satanists!”
* Any privileges and intersections of oppressions that I have not specified in this call for submissions are also free for discussion.

PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:

beyond.the.fields.we.know (at) gmail (dot) com

And please put something with “zine” in the subject line! Tentative deadline for submissions (to the first issue) will be March 12th so that it can be released by the equinox (Ostara for the northern hemisphere; Mabon for those south of the equator). The deadline may be extended if circumstances require it.

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Call for Submissions - Edited Volume on Incarcerated Mothers (including lesbian/ trans mothers): Oppression and Resistance (Demeter Press)

Deadline: 31 May 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Incarcerated Mothers: Oppression and Resistance, Co-Editors: Gordana Eljdupovic and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich

Publication Date: 2012

A large proportion – and in many jurisdictions the majority – of incarcerated women are mothers. Popular attention is often paid to challenges faced by children of incarcerated mothers while incarcerated women themselves often do not “count” as mothers in mainstream discourse. This anthology will explore complex issues relating to incarcerated mothers, from connections between mothering and incarceration, through criminalization of motherhood to understanding experiences of mothers in prison.

This book will examine the experiences of incarcerated mothers as well as how incarcerated mothers are understood in popular discourse and discounted as good or “real” mothers in Western patriarchal society. We encourage submissions that interrogate popular discourses about mothering, virtue and criminalization and especially those that focus on resistance and agency by incarcerated mothers.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

-health of mothers in prison -,- experiences of mothers in prison, -representations of incarcerated mothers in popular culture - prison narratives by and about mothers- history of incarcerated mothers- public policy- the law, - stated above - Criminalization of pregnancy and motherhood -constructing identities - survival patterns as incarcerated mothers- negative cultural portrayals of mothers who are criminalized - relationship of patriarchal discursive systems to portrayals of incarcerated mothers – Incarcerated mothers in the press and other mainstream cultural media - adolescent incarcerated mothers - race, class, ethnicity and incarcerated mothers - foster families and incarcerated mothers- mother and caregiver relationships – mothers after incarceration – transitioning from carceral settings to the community - Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Transsexual incarcerated mothers - gender identity, criminalization and the social construction of motherhood.

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts should be 250 words. Please also include a brief biography, including citizenship (50 words).

Please send to Rebecca@jbbarrister.com

Deadline for Abstracts is May 31st, 2011

Accepted Papers of 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages) will be due November 1, 2011
and should conform to MLA citation format.

Demeter Press
140 Holland St. West, PO Box 13022
Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5
www.demeterpress.org info@demeterpress.org

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Call for Poetry/ Fiction: Transgender and Race Issue of Feminist Studies

Deadline: 1 April 2011

Feminist Studies is seeking poetry and fiction for a special issue on transgender and the intersections of race/ethnicity/nation.

In addition to scholarly work, the issue will include an art essay about South African photographer Zanele Muholi's work representing gender variance in South Africa. Feminist Studies publishes creative work in every issue of this nationally-recognized, peer-reviewed journal.

Please send work for the Trans Issue by April 1, 2011 to Feminist Studies/ Attn: Minnie Bruce Pratt.

How to Submit: Authors should mail one hard copy of their work to Feminist Studies, 0103 Taliaferro Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, along with a disk or CD electronic version, or mail one hard copy as indicated above and e-mail an electronic version to creative@feministstudies.org.

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QWOC: Call for Queer Women and Transgender People of Color and International Bloggers

The founder of QWOC+ Boston (Spectra, www.spectraspeaks.com) is seeking writers, bloggers, poets, visual artists who identify as part of the global queer women (including transgender people) of color community and are excited about contributing to a collective blog of our diverse voices, creative expression, and shared experiences.

Whether or not you describe yourself as a writer, we strongly encourage you to submit your profile HERE for consideration. This is not an academic forum. We will not be accepting excerpts of dissertations / academic papers of any kind. We’re looking for writers who are interested in exploring fun, touchy, or controversial topics such as gender roles and masculinity, interracial dating within the queer community, organizing strategies for LGBT communities of color, international LGBT campaigns, homophobia, culture and religion etc. We also welcome sharp, witty, review of art and media as it relates to the experience of queer people of color in the US and around the world.

Our mantra is diversity speaks — we bring all parts of ourselves to the table — so we’d be especially excited about pieces that dare to tackle multiple facets of our lives in one sitting.

Excited yet? Great! Please fill out this form and you will receive an email in January with next steps for developing your ideas / pitching new ones and getting published within our blog. Thanks in advance for your interest!

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Call for Submissions: F*cking Trans Women

Trans women are told things about our s3xualities all the time, but only rarely are we given the opportunity to say something about our own s3x lives. S3x is a very important part of my life, a very important part of all our lives, but so very little writing has been done on the s3x lives of trans women that doesn’t write us off in one way or another.

Are you a trans woman with something to say about f*cking? SUBMIT HERE!

F*cking Trans Women is a collaborative DIY (Doin’ It Yourself) zine about the s3x lives of trans women. It is designed to help trans women and our lovers share information about how we have good s3x and what we do when we have s3x that works.

F*cking Trans Women is about all kinds of s3x, whether it’s you who is doing the f*cking or you who is getting f*cked, but it is most basically about good s3x. The purpose of the zine is to help each other understand what we’re doing right, what we’re doing spectacularly, and most importantly, how we got there.

Submit here.

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Call for Submissions - Wolf-Girls: Dark Tales of Teeth, Claws and Lycogyny (queer/ trans welcome)

Deadline: 4 April 2011

Call for Submissions: Wolf-Girls: Dark Tales of Teeth, Claws and Lycogyny

Submissions wanted for a new anthology of short stories of bad, bad female werewolves. Kicking, biting, clawing, fighting: the new lycogyny is far from pretty. We’re looking for new and established writers to contribute dark fiction tales for a new collection of stories filled with feral and feisty lupine femmes.

Editor: Hannah Kate

What we want: Edgy dark fiction short stories about female werewolves. Male characters are, of course, allowed, but the central character(s) should be female. We have no preconceptions about what ‘female’ or ‘werewolf’ might mean – so all interpretations are welcome. Any genre considered: dark fantasy, urban fantasy, horror, sci fi, steampunk, cyberpunk, biopunk, dystopian, crossover. Queer, trans, cis, straight are all welcome. High fantasy, revenge fantasy and anything about ‘lunar cycles’ or ‘Mother Nature’ will be considered, but are discouraged. Rather, we’re looking for new takes on an old legend, stories that challenge and unsettle. (And it should probably go without saying that we won’t be including any misogyny, misandry, homophobia, transphobia or racism!)

Word Count: 3000-5000

Submission Guidelines: Electronic submissions as .doc, .docx, .rtf attachments only. 12pt font, 1.5 or double spaced. Please ensure name, title and email address are included on attachment.

Email to submissions [at] hic-dragones [dot] co [dot] uk.

Submissions are welcome from anywhere, but must be in English.

Submission Deadline: Monday 4th April 2011

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Call for Submissions: Transgender Literary Fiction Anthology (Topside Press)

Deadline: 31 August 2011

Seeking short works: Book-length collection of transgender literary fiction

Topside Press seeks short literary fiction for its debut title, to be published in late 2011. The collection will feature work by transgender authors and/or work featuring transgender protagonists. While there is no strict theme, the goal of this collection is to showcase fiction by and about transgender people and culture. The book hopes to reflect the diversity of trans experience; all people are encouraged to participate.

Length: Manuscripts should be fewer than 10,000 words and previously unpublished. Non-English work will be considered if submitted with translation.

Payment: In line with industry standards, to be discussed. Plus, two copies of the completed book.

Submit by clicking here

About The Publishers

Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod have been making work with and for transgender people since 2002. They co-produced the STAGES Transgender Theatre Festival in 2003, a two-week theatre festival of over 40 national and international shows by and about transpeople. They are also the co-writers of both the serial comedic musical play Butch McCloud: Your Friendly Neighborhood Lesbian Superhero and the short film “F. Scott Fitzgerald Slept Here” (dir. Jules Rosskam). They are based in Brooklyn, New York.

For more information please email the publishers at info@topsidepress.com.

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Call for Submissions for Trans Zine

Deadline: 10 January 2011

I'm Jez, I live in Melbourne, Australia and I'm a queer transman.

I'm making a little zine based on trans masculine information. The purpose of the zine is to provide a little guide on how to negotiate trans male relationships. It is going to be really simple and basic and hopefully provides a bit more understanding for people who are interested in playing with trans masculine folk or for people that are curious in general or just lack knowledge and awareness.

I know there is plenty of information and resources out there already but still to this day people can ask me the most random, uncomfortable and sometimes rudely offensive questions such as "do you still have a va9ina?" I don't think these people intend harm, but I'd like the majority of people to pre-empt their interactions with trans guys with some forethought, respect, care and understanding.

And I don't want to ridicule or frighten people away from wanting to engage so I thought a zine might be a good way to approach this. Also, another reason I want to create this zine is because for many years I have cruised male only venues under a certain level of anonymity and danger, which of course is very exciting, but largely hard work and unsafe. I would like to see a little more visibility and inclusiveness in gay male venues because I feel there is more fun to be had if people just knew a little more about it.

The idea of this zine is to provide everyone and anyone with a little trans male 101 and isn't targeted specifically to one type of play nor will it necessarily represent all trans masculine identified people.

Which brings me to my invitation to submit something relevant to this topic so I can ensure there is some diversity in the zine. If you have something relevant and would like to have it included, please feel free to contact me. It could be writing, poems, personal experience, photography, drawings, random shit, s3xual fantasy, er0tic fiction or any material that can be printed in black and white.

You could also submit a question which you have been asked that made you feel uncomfortable and frozen and/or a response that might be appropriate and empowering.

If interested, please email me personally or message me privately on facebook.

Email: coltbaxter81 [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Facebook: Jez Pez

Deadline for submissions is January 10th 2011.

I will try to include as much content as possible in addition to what I will be writing as the main part of the zine.

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Call for Submissions: Transgender Beyond Disorder: Identity, Community, and Health

Deadline: 2 January 2011

WPATH PRESENTS: Transgender Beyond Disorder: Identity, Community, and Health, the 22nd WPATH Biennial Symposium, September 24 - 28, 2011 at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia (USA).

To submit a paper for consideration, download an application here. Deadline for submission is January 2, 2011.

The purpose of the 22nd WPATH International Symposium is to present professionals with the latest advances in research, education, clinical service, and advocacy to promote the health and well being of transgender and transsexual people and their families. The scientific program will address topics in several areas including primary care, psychiatry, endocrinology, and surgery; psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy; sociology and anthropology; gender and sexuality; speech and voice therapy; and other related fields relevant to transgender health. We invite all professionals, clinicians, researchers, and academics to submit relevant abstracts.

There will be a variety of special panels, paper presentations, poster sessions and speakers, including some of the following topics: Children, families, and youth; ethnic/racial and cultural diversity in transgender health; transition-related services; community-based health care and community-participatory research; transgenderism in sports; human rights; and the latest advances in brain research. An update will be provided on the revision of the DSM and ICD gender-related diagnoses, and the completely revised Version 7 of the Standards of Care will be presented.

Especially for the 22nd biennial WPATH Symposium, we established a partnership with the 21st annual Southern Comfort transgender community Conference and the 29th annual conference of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, both held immediately prior to the WPATH Symposium. On Sunday, September 25, 2011, we will be offering a joint program at the WPATH Symposium site (Emory Conference Center).

Proof of Attendance Certificate will be given to all Symposium attendees. CEU's and CME's will be offered for the Pre-Conference Continuing Education program on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011.

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