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call for submissions

Young Women of Color Anthology: A Grassroots Project

Deadline: September 1, 2001
Contact:

Wendy M. Thompson
PO Box 11764
Santa Barbara, CA 93107
Email: womynproject

Listen up ladies, here's the agenda! New nonfiction writings by women of color between the ages of 13 and 30 are needed for an upcoming anthology. It has been proven time and time again that voices of young women of color are neatly packaged away and marginalized by the voices of mainstream American (read: straight/white) girls and women. This anthology is being put out in hopes of allowing young women of color to speak and document their own lives and experiences for themselves.

The idea for this collection of writing and visual art came up when a young Afro-Asian American college student attended a leadership retreat for young women sponsored by WILD for Human Rights, a San Francisco based organization, and was assigned a documentation project. She felt compelled to write her own story apart from what TV and the radio and magazines are saying about young women of color. Tired of being idealized and sexualized because of gender or stigmatized because of race, she decided to make this anproject in which young women would be able to lend their minds and voices in order to create a dialogue in which racism, sexism, violence, sexuality, and marginalization could be discussed along with various other issues. Thus, the anthology was born!

Now is the time to send your rants, feelings, and views by way of journal entries, personal essays, plays, spoken word/poetry, prose, and visual art about topics such as:

culture and ethnic identity
violence and street culture
family and community
pop culture, representations, and the mass media
sex, love, and sexuality
politics, feminism, and activism
technology and the future
spoken word and the creative process

Please keep in mind that writings other than poetry/prose should be kept within a 20 page limit (unless previously discussed with me) and to include your name, address, phone number, and bio along with your submission(s). All further inquiries should be sent to: womynproject

call for contributions:

it’s a bloody evolution: gen x women rewrite their reproductive destinies

We are two women of feminism’s third wave, one on either side of 30. Like many women of our generation, we are engaged in thinking about our experiences around sexuality and find ourselves making choices around fertility, relationships and reproductive health that, just a generation before, were simply not possible. To be sure, a collision of factors has created a revolutionary shift in the way many American women experience themselves as female and fertile. Collectively, our generation represents an amazing diversity of experiences. However, the mainstream media seems bent on presenting our experiences in absolute, essentialist and dualistic terms.

You know the jig: Virgin vs. Whore, Straight vs. Gay, Celebrity Mother vs. Welfare Mother and so on. Motherhood is still idealized and expected in spite of women’s other creative capacities. And behind childbearing, a walk down the aisle—the supposed apex of romance—is still presented as the legitimizing act a person seeking adult status can perform.

Well, the jig is up!

We are seeking to capture the truth of women’s evolving sexuality, in all its bloody complexity and messy contradictions, as experienced by the first generation of women to come of age following the "sexual revolution." Particularly, we are interested in the perspectives of women of feminism’s third wave, those in their 20s and 30s whose lives represent a refreshing resolution of either their feminist mothers’ ambivalence towards being fertile and female or the cultural shame imposed on women’s bodies and their biological processes.

We want to capture how women’s experiences are shaped by economic class, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, geographic location, educational attainment, and any other demographic intersection. Contributions may include written or photographic essays, collage, painting, poetry, one-act plays, cartoons, posters, journal entries or other creative expressions.

Topics may include your experiences with the following issues: abortion, adoption, breast health, breast size, breast as fetish, breastfeeding, contraception, decisions to parent or not to parent, gender expression, HIV-AIDS, infertility, sexuality, menstruation/menstruation ritual, motherhood, pregnancy, safer sex practices, sexually transmitted infections, women’s biological processes and various healing approaches.

The deadline for submissions is Aug. 1, 2001.

For more information email us at BloodyEvolution

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