It’s that time of year again, folks! This fall is already in full gear judging by the amount of cool projects looking for submissions. Please check out all the different publications below, including subject matter such as addiction and recovery, sexual health, community responses to partner abuse, and body politics.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ON ADDICTION AND RECOVERY
Substance: On Addiction and Recovery is a collection of people’s experiences with addiction and recovery in radical and/or marginalized communities. Not just a text to break the silence, Substance is an opportunity for those affected by substance abuse to make meaning of our lives and create opportunities for lasting social change. Substance: On Addiction and Recovery will be a book that transcends the mainstream discourse regarding addiction and recovery and forges new pathways towards healing and the reclamation of our lives.
I am open to essays, poetry, personal narratives, photography, art, comics, collage, and more.
Please be in touch with questions and submission ideas: substancebook at gmail dot com!
Potential topics:
• personal narratives of addiction and/or recovery • support groups • radical sobriety • harm reduction • silence and stigma • withdrawal and detoxification • the intersections of race/class/sexual orientation/gender identity/disability status and addiction • creating and sustaining community support networks • how addiction intersects with activism, sexuality, health, sexual and intimate partner violence, mental illness, privilege, oppression, identity, capitalism, the state, work, and creativity • current or historic examples of community-based groups that focus on the politics of addiction or support of community members • healing from addiction • self-medication • overdose and death • incarceration and criminalization
In addition to pieces by individuals, I’d like to include a few pieces about the work that community-based groups have done to address the politics of addiction and recovery and to support those dealing with substance abuse. If you are a member of such a group, please feel free to write.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 7, 2011
Additionally, if you know anyone who would like to donate funds of any amount to support the printing of this book, please have them contact substancebook at gmail dot com!
Please forward this message on, and spread the word!
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Please submit a sex ed comic to the 4th Issue of Not Your Mothers’ Meatloaf!
Also visit our blog, sexedcomicproject.blogspot.com where you can download all three past issues of the comic for FREE!
as well as view updates on the project, our goals and history, and more.
The theme of this issue is: Health
**NEW** Deadline: November 1st
Guidelines: 8 1/2 x 11, black ink, 1-4 pages
We try to provide themes that will help get you started. But, it is are just a suggestion and we encourage you to write about anything you feel inspired to share. And please interpret our new theme broadly; sexual health can range from mental to physical to emotional, from prescription drugs to homeopathic or herbal remedies, from the hospital or the doctor’s office to the bathroom and bedroom.
Remember: Our primary focus is educating youth and each other about important issues surrounding sexuality, safer sex, consent, gender, etc.
Also: Submissions are anonymous unless you put your name on the comic itself.
Email scanned copies to: notyourmothersmeatloaf@gmail.com
Let us know if you need to snail mail hard copies and we will provide you with an address.
Thanks so much! We can’t do it without your incredible stories.
-Saiya and Liza
NYMM editors
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“It’s Down to This” is a new zine compilation that aims to give space to step back, take a deep breath and reflect on where we’re at.
Reflecting on our experiences with community accountability processes, survivor support, or general efforts to cultivate community response to sexual violence- this is a space to talk about our experiences with this work, what we have learned, where we want to go from here, what we feel, what we want others to be able to hear, see, think about, engage with.
It is an attempt to further give voice to our efforts and experiences in doing this work, to give space and voice to silence. To know and hear how we have survived in this work, how we have sustained this work, or why we burned out. To further document our attempts at figuring out what community accountability looks like, or what it even is. To be able to reflect and grow from our mistakes and epiphanies.
SEEKING: stories, essays, interviews, comics, artwork and thoughts reflecting on working around accountability and community response to sexual violence:
What has it looked like? What has it entailed? What could it look like? Who does it involve? In what ways? How is a community responsible? How is a community involved? What can an accountability process look like? What has it looked like? What works? What doesn’t? What were the fuck-ups, the successes?
*These questions are asked with the assumption that confidentiality will be respected and that stories will not be shared if they are not yours to share.
*The word ‘community’ is used with the awareness that it is often used problematically.
Looking for submissions that:
- explore the importance of accountability and support work as an act of community building and collective liberation, that express the importance of this work within social justice movements.
-reflect on the support, empowerment, recovery and growth that have come out of this work
-reflect on the pain, trauma and frustration of this work or which is inherent in this work.
-develop ideas and methods of sustainability around this work
-look at the social and political contexts in which community accountability and response to sexual violence and partner abuse grows and exists.
-share our stories
Anonymity and confidentiality will be respected.
DEADLINE: extended to December 15th!
For info and submissions contact: responsezine@gmail.com
Feel free to send in ideas/proposals and ask for feedback!
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Breaking Boundaries:
Body Politics and the Dynamics of Difference
a Conference at Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York
March 4-5, 2011
Keynote Speaker:
Marilyn Wann
Fat Activist and Author, Fat!So?
When it comes to “the body,” the definition of normal is fluid and changes across cultures and time. In each context, there are those who have been exploited and oppressed because they do not fit prevailing notions of beauty. This conference will explore the body politics around those with “deviant” bodies.
This conference will address these and other questions: What are the dominant narratives and perceptions about beauty and bodies? How do these perceptions affect public policy around issues of health, civil rights, education, and accessibility? How do those whose bodies do not fit into the “proper” cultural norms challenge attitudes, laws and perceptions? How have they negotiated for and found power in unwelcoming environments, both now and in the past? How do the categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, age and disability complicate prevailing ideas about embodiment? Are there and have there been communities and cultures that have welcomed those whose bodies are currently perceived as deviant in dominant popular discourse? And, what is the relationship between promoting and continuing the dominant discourse and capitalist consumer culture?
We invite activists, scholars and artists in all fields to propose papers, panels, workshops, performances, and exhibits. Proposals for panels are especially welcomed, but individual papers will also be considered.
Specific topics may include, but are not limited to:
Representations of deviant bodies in popular culture
Social justice and fat and disability activism
Intersectionality: race, gender, class, sexuality and the body
HAES: Health at Every Size
Stigma
Feminism and the body
Social construction of disability
Objectification and commodification of the deviant body
Fiction and the deviant body
Language and the body
Deviant bodies across cultures and time
DEADLINE DECEMBER 3, 2010
Please email a brief abstract and c.v./resume to:
Tara James
Email: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu
Phone: 914-395-2405