Call for Submissions ~ Queer Voices Zine

Calling All Those with Queer Sensibilities–From CT to Beyond! Queers Without Borders is Going to Print Again and We Need Your Help! In Connecticut (as with most places throughout the world) there is a decided lack of queer voices in media. In Hartford, this often seems doubly the case.

Queers without Borders is a multi-issue group arguing for a radically different conception of politics—one that does not separate struggles for sexual dignity from struggles against racism, sexism, class exploitation, and the policing of gender conformity. We house a blog site at http://queerswithoutborders.com/wpmu/ but want to add queer voices to print media (especially in the greater Hartford area) to provide an alternative to the politics-as-usual approach of existing publications geared toward the LGBT community (and beyond!).

With this in mind, we need YOUR help!!! This is a call for submissions to our second print publication, Queer Voices. Reformatting into a ‘zine format, we have focused this issue on personal experience. Send us your stories, poems, comics, etc. (the sky would be the limit, if we believed in such things as “limits”) for print in our second issue of Queer Voices! We are especially looking for pieces that outline personal experiences with queer identity, politics, theory, and practice. As well, we seek submissions that take note of the intersections between the politics of sexuality, race, class, gender, nation of origin, ability, age, and any host of subjectivities that have been formed into hierarchies in our often messy world. After all, none of these identities exist independently of the others and to talk of one is to talk of them all (even when ignored, what goes unsaid is often as telling as what is actually articulated)! Submissions should be emailed to queerswithoutborders@gmail.com by March 15th, 2009.

Thank you for your time and submissions! Projects like this cannot exist without the active involvement of many! We need YOU! We need each other! Yours in solidarity, Queers without Borders!