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Submit your work to: [email protected] by February 28th, 2021

Call for Submissions! FAT ASS is an intersectional queer/feminist zine that centers the experiences of queer and trans fat folks and celebrates the artistry, activism, and work of queer/tras fat activists. For issue #2 of FAT ASS, we’re looking for submissions celebrating Queer/Trans Fat Sexuality and Sensuality. We are seeking submissions that address the following themes (and more!): § Fat queer/trans self-love and stories about pleasure and sensual indulgence. § Celebrations of fat and queer/trans sexuality in drawings, illustrations, photography, collage, and other forms of art. § Intersectional analyses of media representations of fat sexuality with particular attention to race, class, nationality, and disability status. § Decolonizing fat, trans/queer/two spirit sexualities. § Erotic/sensual poetry, prose, short fiction that affirms and celebrates fat queer sexuality. § Activist projects that affirm and validate fat queer/trans sexuality for our activist spotlight section. § Healing from sexual trauma from the perspective of fat, queer/trans people. § Have an idea not listed here? Submit anyway! It is a myth that you must be a “good writer” or “good artist” to submit to a zine. We welcome many kinds of writing and artwork: essays, poetry, short stories, photography, doodles, rants, drawings, cartoons/comics, collage…and more! Send your submissions to [email protected] before March 31st, 2019. For written submissions, please use Microsoft Word and submit your writing in .doc or .docx format. (Please try to limit submissions to 1500 words. We are flexible. Let us know if you need a little extra space.) For artwork, please attach high resolution .jpg images to your email. All photography must be accompanied by the subject's consent. Please include a title for your artwork and feel free to share any information you think would be pertinent for readers to know about your piece (i.e.: medium, location, tools used). Contributors have the option of sharing a short bio or publishing their work anonymously. All artists and authors will receive a free copy of the zine. We vigorously affirm and prioritize the writing of Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous People of Color (QTBIPOC).

Deadline: February 28th, 2018 Send submission and bio to: [email protected] Please limit your submissions to approximately 1500 words and/or send high quality images of your artwork/photography. We enthusiastically welcome and prioritize submissions by queer, trans, and disabled IPOC. All contributors will receive a free copy in the mail!

[Image description: Announcement for call submissions for zine, All in Your Head features an illustration of a femme presenting cyborg, seated near futuristic white and blue orbs. Cords are connected to the cyborg's mechanical skull as they look towards a starry sky.] Text reads: 'All in Your Head: Queerness, Neurodivergence, and Disability Zine. Call for Submissions! Queer Crip Futures. Deadline: December 1st, 2017.']  Call for Submissions! All in Your Head is a queer/feminist traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroatypical people and people with disabilities must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more 5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive) We are seeking submissions for issue #7 of All in Your Head. The theme for this issue is: QUEER CRIP FUTURES. We accept many kinds of submissions including: short stories, essays, poetry, rants, manifestos, music playlists, book reviews, doodles, drawings, resource lists, opinion pieces, photography, collage (and more!) that address this theme. If you don't see your idea here, send it anyway! It may just be the thing we’re looking for! Keep in mind that you do not need to be a “good writer/artist/poet” (whatever that means!) to participate. We want to deconstruct and dismantle elitist gatekeeping and restricting access to publishing for disabled, neuroqueer folks. Possible themes/topics for this issue: -Visions for social, cultural, and systemic change from the perspective of queer, disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent people -Accessible technologies -The future of disability activism -Bio-medical ethics and technological developments -Eugenics, disability, and the rhetoric of futurity -Science fiction and disability, gender, race, class, sexuality etc -Activist/artist projects that address the theme Crip Futures as it relates to queer disabled, neurodiverse communities for our activist spotlight column. Send all submissions to: [email protected] Deadline: December 1st, 2017. Word limit: Please try to keep submissions around 1500 words or less. This is to ensure that all folks who submit have a good chance of getting published. Please send with your submission: Bio (optional), descriptions of any images you sent (high res please!), and any links to your work and artistry (optional). All contributors will receive a free copy and are free to publish elsewhere (we do not own your work!).

Issue #5 of All in Your Head, Queer Crip Survival, is now available. In black and white and in full color! www.etsy.com/shop/GlitterWurst

IMPORTANT: In this issue of AIYH, we are prioritizing submissions by Indigenous folks, people of colors (IPOC) who are LGBTQIA+ identified, disabled, and/or neurodivergent. We welcome submissions from folks who are not IPOC; however, we want to center and prioritize this artistry and writing prior to accepting other submissions. Just be aware that we might not be able to fit every submission in this issue. All contributors will receive a free copy in the mail and retain rights to their content (we do not own your work and you are free to publish elsewhere!).

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!! All in Your Head is a traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroatypical people and people with disabilities must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more  5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive) For the Summer 2017 editions of All in Your Head, we invite you to share first person narratives, essays, rants, poems, doodles, drawings, photography, collages (and more!) that address the concept of “SURVIVAL.” We are seeking pieces that explore the theme SURVIVAL” as it relates to disabled bodyminds and ways that queer neurodivergent, disabled folks encounter and resist cultural stigma and self-authorize our existence. We are seeking topics that address the follow themes (and others): -Survival in the literalist sense—staying alive—and state sanctioned violenceagainst queer, disabled, neurodivergent people of colors; survival and accessto live sustaining medicines and therapies; survival and poverty. -Diverse interpretations of what it means to “survive” as a disabled, queercrip, neuroqueer in an ableist, racist, cissexist, classist,homo/bi/transphobic western culture. -Communal care, caring and healing networks. -Tensions between the concept of interdependence and independence as it relates to survival. -“Help”/ “Charity”/ “Pity” Culture and queer crip survival. -The influences of capitalism on “survival,” ranging from internalized classism to economic realities -Long-term visions of change for the survival of people with disabilities. -Artist or activist projects focused on the survival of queer disabled and neurodivergent folks for our Activist Spotlight Column. Send your submissions to [email protected] before April 22nd, 2017. Please send your submissions via email. For written submissions, please use Microsoft word and submit your writing in .doc or .docx format. (Please try to limit submissions to 1500 words. We are flexible. Let us know if you need a little extra space.) For artwork, please attach high resolution .jpg images to your email. Please include a title for your artwork and any information you think would be pertinent for readers to know about your piece (medium, location, tools used etc). Contributors have the option of sharing a short bio or publishing their work anonymously. IMPORTANT: Contributors should be willing to have their work displayed in another, accessible form of media alongside the traditional paper zine. Contributors should anticipate that their work may be read and translated/captioned in a video via youtube or vimeo or another internet venue. More details on this element to come. Email us with any questions.