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pantryslutResisting Assimilation: Alternatives to the Gay Mainstream
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Itâs time for radical queer writing that skewers the gay mainstreamâs assimilationist ideals of marriage, military service, and adoption. Iâm looking for activist writing by queers who strive to live outside of conventional norms. Resisting Assimilation will use queer identity as a starting point from which to reframe, reclaim, and re-shape the world.
Resisting Assimilation will challenge the commercialized, commodified, and hyper-objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media. Iâm looking for essays that explore queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models.
As an activist, Iâm drawn to essays that explore and critique specific struggles to resist the monster of assimilation, from sex parties to civil disobedience. Iâm especially drawn to writing that interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and all other hierarchies. I would like to see essays that explore how queers fight police brutality, subvert gender rules, resist crackdowns on public sex and sex work, and actively oppose homogenization, globalization and all the other evils of the oh-so-modern world.
Resisting Assimilation will be the rocks we throw through the glass houses of Gaylandia. Submissions may include visual art, as well as flyers, photos from demonstrations and anything else that will fit into a book. Enjoy!
Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a novel, Pulling Taffy (2003), as well as the editor of two non-fiction anthologies˜Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (2000) and Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (2004).
Guidelines :
*Submit up to three non-fiction works, 5,000 words maximum for each. All submissions must be typed and double-spaced. Payment if accepted.
*Submit black-and-white artwork, 9‰ x 12‰ or smaller. No originals or slides. *Please include:
*cover letter and brief bio
*self-addressed, stamped envelope for correspondence
*self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage for return of the manuscript.
*No email submissions.
*DEADLINE is August 31, 2003
*Send submissions to the following address:
Resisting Assimilation
c/o Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
P.O. Box 640047
San Francisco, CA 94164-0047
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Itâs time for radical queer writing that skewers the gay mainstreamâs assimilationist ideals of marriage, military service, and adoption. Iâm looking for activist writing by queers who strive to live outside of conventional norms. Resisting Assimilation will use queer identity as a starting point from which to reframe, reclaim, and re-shape the world.
Resisting Assimilation will challenge the commercialized, commodified, and hyper-objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media. Iâm looking for essays that explore queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models.
As an activist, Iâm drawn to essays that explore and critique specific struggles to resist the monster of assimilation, from sex parties to civil disobedience. Iâm especially drawn to writing that interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and all other hierarchies. I would like to see essays that explore how queers fight police brutality, subvert gender rules, resist crackdowns on public sex and sex work, and actively oppose homogenization, globalization and all the other evils of the oh-so-modern world.
Resisting Assimilation will be the rocks we throw through the glass houses of Gaylandia. Submissions may include visual art, as well as flyers, photos from demonstrations and anything else that will fit into a book. Enjoy!
Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a novel, Pulling Taffy (2003), as well as the editor of two non-fiction anthologies˜Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (2000) and Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (2004).
Guidelines :
*Submit up to three non-fiction works, 5,000 words maximum for each. All submissions must be typed and double-spaced. Payment if accepted.
*Submit black-and-white artwork, 9‰ x 12‰ or smaller. No originals or slides. *Please include:
*cover letter and brief bio
*self-addressed, stamped envelope for correspondence
*self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage for return of the manuscript.
*No email submissions.
*DEADLINE is August 31, 2003
*Send submissions to the following address:
Resisting Assimilation
c/o Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
P.O. Box 640047
San Francisco, CA 94164-0047
