kusama pyjamas
Titled for Yayoi Kusama, who is the cat's pyjamas.
(via The People’s Apocalypse by Ariel Gore — Kickstarter)
so i along with a bunch of wonderful writers will be published in this book. please support this project. i am so excited.
*so cool, excited for you*
Call For Submission
Dear Sister is an anthology of letters and other works created for survivors of sexual violence from other survivors and allies. It is a collection of hope and strength through words and art.
The pathway for a survivor of rape and sexual violence is an unlit road of pain, isolation, and doubt. In the weeks, months, and oftentimes, years following, the healing process can be difficult to navigate without a community surrounding her. Imagine a compilation of literary arms bound together to offer words of understanding, solidarity, and love. Dear Sister is an accessible and inclusive offering of hope, voice, and courage for women, women-identified, female or female-identified, or those who do not identifiy with gender. It seeks writers and artists who wish to light a piece of that road and lift up others in her healing.
Deadline submissions 1st November, click through for more info!
woman’s work « guerrilla mama medicine
so, my little short story, wild poppies, is published in this anthology by girl child press, woman’s work, edited by michelle sewell. pre-order a copy!
i love this cover. so so pretty. so excited to be part of this project. support independent publishing and good writing for mother’s day!
Woman’s Work is a wonderful literary celebration. The writing is razor sharp and the storytelling compelling. In this provocative and entertaining collection, that promises surprises around every corner, 40 eclectic women writers, pull us into their ever-changing universe of shapeshifters, fairies, drag queens, and fat Southern girls. This is an adventure not to be missed.
Adding to the Anthologies to Get list!
pansexualpride:fuckyeahlgbt:equalitopia:
New Jersey school district bans anthology about teenage homosexuality
American free speech organizations are fighting a decision by a New Jersey school to remove a critically acclaimed anthology of writing about teenage homosexuality from library shelves after parents described it as vulgar and obscene, reports The Guardian.
Revolutionary Voices, a collection of stories, poems and artwork by young homosexuals, was banned at Rancocas Valley Regional High School last week following a campaign by the local chapter of Glenn Beck’s conservative 9.12 project.
Local grandmother and 9.12 member Beverly Marinelli told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the book was “pervasively vulgar, obscene, and inappropriate”, while insisting that she is “not a homophobe”.
A coalition of free speech groups has jumped to the book’s defense, saying that residents “have no right to impose their views on others or to demand that the contents of the library reflect their personal, religious, or moral values.”
Note the very important clarification by one censor, that despite advocating for homophobic censorship, she is “not a homophobe”. Some days, haters just aren’t worth hating back…looks like a good anthology though.
AUTHOR and activist Thomas Glave in collaboration with the Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), UWI, St Augustine will host a public lecture and book launch at the Daaga Hall Auditorium at UWI on April 15 at 5.30 pm.
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Glave is a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at SUNY Binghamton. … The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles Published by Duke University Press, 2008, is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles.
Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as José Alcántara Almánzar, Reinaldo Arenas, Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, and Assotto Saint. The result is an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung diaspora. Many selections were originally published in Spanish, Dutch, or creole languages; some are translated into English here for the first time.
The 37 authors hail from the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Vincent, St Kitts, Suriname and Trinidad. Many have lived outside the Caribbean, and their writings depict histories of voluntary migration as well as exile from the repressive governments, communities, and families. Many pieces have a political urgency that reflect their author’s work as activists, teachers, community organisers, and performers. Desire commingles with ostracism and allegation throughout: in the evocative portrayals of same-sex love and longing, and in the selections addressing religion, family, race, and class.
From the poem “Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors” to the poignant narrative “We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?” to an eloquent call for the embrace of difference that appeared in the Nassau Daily Tribune on the eve of an anti-gay protest, Our Caribbean is a brave and necessary book.
Contributors are José Alcántara Almánzar, Aldo Alvarez, Reinaldo Arenas, Rane Arroyo, Jesús, R Erica Doyle, Thomas Glave, Rosamond S King, Helen Klonaris, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Audre Lorde, Shani Mootoo, Anton Nimblett, Achy Obejas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Virgilio Piñera, Patricia Powell, Kevin Everod Quashie, Juanita Ramos, Colin Robinson, Assotto Saint, Andrew Salkey, Lawrence Scott, Maikeda Silvera, H Nigel Thomas, Rinaldo Walcott, Gloria Wekker and Lawson Williams.
A friend of mine, who just so happens to be AWESOME, is working on an anthology of people who have genders that are non-conforming to society’s standards. I’m really freaking excited to read this book…the problem is, they are still looking for submissions to it.
So if your gender is non-conforming in some way, any way, get yourself up to write a submission for this so I can eventually read it in all of its coolness. You can click here, or read below for more info.
Call for Submissions:
Working Title: Stalled
Editors: K. Bridgeman and A. Lee Crayton
Contact: stalled.the.book [at] gmail [dot] com
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2010
The range of gender non-conforming folks is broad. We are men, women, genderqueers, two-spirits, trans women/transwomen, trans men/transmen, intersex, bois, grrrls, butchs, faeries, FtMs, MtFs, tomboys, drag queens, transvestites, transexuals, queers, none or maybe all of the above?* In a society that preaches gender as rigid, fighting for gender self-determination can be challenging. For some the process is finite, traveling from point A to point B, while others wade continuously through the mire or transcend altogether. But despite the trajectory of our own personal journey, we all experience the polarizing demands of the binary.
Link site = NSFW
Queering Sexual Violence seeks 20- 25 LGBTQ writers who are interested in submitting pieces that confront the current state of our anti- sexual violence climate. Part memoir/ part criticism/ part call to action, this anthology seeks to address the limitations of a society that is not only unequipped to deal with rape culture but also unable to look at it without the lens of heterosexual privilege and through the interests of a gender binary system. The anthology seeks to destroy the image of the “perfect survivor” and motivate the anti-sexual violence community to embrace a more radical perspective in order to foster sustainable change.
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Please send submissions and/ or questions to queeringsexualviolence@gmail.com by March 31, 2010. For extension requests, please write.
Class. Disability. Transphobia. Race. Body size. Surrogacy. Nationality. Biphobia. Economics. Sex work. Queer families. Misogyny. All of these issues and more comprise Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity. Edited by Jennifer Clare Burke the book contains personal essays from over fifty contributors who explore what it means to be a queer femme. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and totally new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each contributor’s concrete notion of femmedom.
The Homofactus Press femme publication I mentioned before. I got very excited about it because it has so many new, contemporary femme writers as well as the established spoken word and activist femmes.
