Photographs by Adela Licona, from left: "Mercat de Sant Josep: La Boqueria" and "Insect Images Series"
Call for Submissions!!
Fall 2013
Theme Issue: ANIMAL INSTINCTS
Issue Editors: Lisa Jean Moore and Breanne Fahs
Deadline for Submissions: July 1, 2013
The editors of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism invite you to consider the theme of “animal instincts,” focused on the intersections of animals, feminisms, sexualities, and women’s lives. This issue considers, engages with, and challenges longstanding distinctions constructed between “human” animals and “non-human” animals – a vexing concern for feminism, especially given women’s historical equation with animality.
What are non-human animals? How do we, as humans, relate to them? How do we account for our “animal nature” while at the same time reconciling our cultural aspirations? What are our primary desires with respect to non-human animals, and how have these animals been integral to human development as a species? How have women, in particular, related to animals both “domestic” and “wild”? How have parts of our humanness taken on qualities of the “animal,” particularly women’s sexuality, lust, and desire? What has it meant for women to be marginalized as animalistic, and how has this destructive link been shaped by race and ethnicity? And, could such a link between women and animality serve the interests of feminism, particularly in integrating or valuing “unfeminine” aspects of women’s lives like rage, hunger, dominance, or libidinal impulses?
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism seeks writing and visual art, in any genre, that creatively takes up the theme of animal instincts in ways consistent with our mission. We welcome contributions that “fit” within this theme, but suggest a few possible ideas around which to stimulate/organize/focus your creative work:
Submissions should be completed (not in abstract or draft form).
As always, works that do not fit the theme issue may also be accepted, but note if your writing and/or art is for the theme issue or a general submission. The deadline for all submissions for Fall 2013 is July 1, 2013, for a launch date of October 1, 2013. Please use our online submission system. If you have trouble with this system, use our contact page to email us.
Fall 2013
Theme Issue: ANIMAL INSTINCTS
Issue Editors: Lisa Jean Moore and Breanne Fahs
Deadline for Submissions: July 1, 2013
The editors of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism invite you to consider the theme of “animal instincts,” focused on the intersections of animals, feminisms, sexualities, and women’s lives. This issue considers, engages with, and challenges longstanding distinctions constructed between “human” animals and “non-human” animals – a vexing concern for feminism, especially given women’s historical equation with animality.
What are non-human animals? How do we, as humans, relate to them? How do we account for our “animal nature” while at the same time reconciling our cultural aspirations? What are our primary desires with respect to non-human animals, and how have these animals been integral to human development as a species? How have women, in particular, related to animals both “domestic” and “wild”? How have parts of our humanness taken on qualities of the “animal,” particularly women’s sexuality, lust, and desire? What has it meant for women to be marginalized as animalistic, and how has this destructive link been shaped by race and ethnicity? And, could such a link between women and animality serve the interests of feminism, particularly in integrating or valuing “unfeminine” aspects of women’s lives like rage, hunger, dominance, or libidinal impulses?
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism seeks writing and visual art, in any genre, that creatively takes up the theme of animal instincts in ways consistent with our mission. We welcome contributions that “fit” within this theme, but suggest a few possible ideas around which to stimulate/organize/focus your creative work:
- Affects and intimacies with animals—companion species, petness, animal assisted therapy
- Animals as entertainment(ers)—animal performers, animal shows, animal competitions, horse races, circus “freaks”
- Animals in art, culture, and film
- Animal husbandry—domestication, breeding, training, harvesting
- Consumption of animals—eating, wearing, enslaving, breeding
- Deconstructing and reimagining links between women, earth, and animals
- Ecofeminism, radical animal rights, critiques of PETA
- Ethology—scientific study of animal behavior
- Interspecies ethnographies
- Mourning and/or celebrating the death and birth of animals
- Rituals with animals—religious, spiritual, ethnic traditions
- Social movements regarding animals—animal liberation, animal welfare
- Speciesism, chauvinism, imperialism, sexism, racism—connections, overlaps, disjunctures
- Stereotypes—the “crazy cat lady,” women as “natural” caretakers
- Hunting, slaughterhouses, museums—animals as “targets”
- Use of animals vs. worship of animals
- Veganism, Pescatarianism, and eating
- Violence, torture, and suffering of animals
- Visual cultures of animals—taxidermy, totems, circuses, zoos
- Xenotransplantation
Submissions should be completed (not in abstract or draft form).
As always, works that do not fit the theme issue may also be accepted, but note if your writing and/or art is for the theme issue or a general submission. The deadline for all submissions for Fall 2013 is July 1, 2013, for a launch date of October 1, 2013. Please use our online submission system. If you have trouble with this system, use our contact page to email us.
Photographs by Adela C. Licona, from left: "Neon Desert Series 1" and "Razor's Edge"
To review our detailed submission requirements and submit your work to TRIVIA, click on the link directly below:
General Submission Guidelines
We seek original feminist contributions in the following
categories:
* Art, Photography, and Digital Media
* Creative Nonfiction
* Critical Essays
* Fiction
* Interviews
* Poetry
* Special Categories: "After-Readings" and "Trivial Lives"
In addition to these categories, if you have an idea for a contribution that would not likely fit here (e.g., reprint of a historic document, a book or film review, an obituary, criticism), please contact us here. We’re happy to consider your ideas and suggestions.
Please note that consistent with our editorial vision, we operate with (and within) an expansive definition of feminism, one that recognizes diversity of thought and practice across boundaries and borders of all kinds. That said, TRIVIA especially welcomes submissions from radical feminists, lesbians, women of color, and other marginalized groups.
* Art, Photography, and Digital Media
* Creative Nonfiction
* Critical Essays
* Fiction
* Interviews
* Poetry
* Special Categories: "After-Readings" and "Trivial Lives"
In addition to these categories, if you have an idea for a contribution that would not likely fit here (e.g., reprint of a historic document, a book or film review, an obituary, criticism), please contact us here. We’re happy to consider your ideas and suggestions.
Please note that consistent with our editorial vision, we operate with (and within) an expansive definition of feminism, one that recognizes diversity of thought and practice across boundaries and borders of all kinds. That said, TRIVIA especially welcomes submissions from radical feminists, lesbians, women of color, and other marginalized groups.
Copyright/Permissions
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism is an Open Access publication that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
ISSN 2166-9082 (online)
ISSN 2166-9082 (online)
