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Submit before May 31st, 2017!

We are eager for feminists of all backgrounds and genders to submit! Potential ideas for material on the topic of spaces include, but are not limited to,:

Establishing Boundaries: Strategies for setting boundaries and enacting holistic consent; Self-care; The meanings and implications of “holding space” for another person; Strategies to make relationships more equitable and less hierarchical; Peer support and mutual aid; Strategies to deal with grief, loss, and trauma; Seeking out / creating healthy ways and places to address mental illness; Addressing our needs for emotional closeness (introversion vs. extroversion, etc.)

Statehood and Citizenship: Refugee crisis as a feminist issue; Historical essays about de/colonization; Family lineage and national identity; Informational essays and personal narratives about experiences with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detainment, etc; Nationalism and resistance; anti-fascist and ANTIFA movements; Palestinian liberation, Puerto Rican independence movement, First nation resistance, etc; Challenging the “We are all immigrants” liberal solidarity movement; Experiences living with/in diaspora

Physical Boundaries: Environmentalism, global warming, and climate change (scientific essays, essays about how these issues correspond to contemporary politics and treaties, the negative impact that the construction of walls has on our environment, etc); Water protectors; Rapid gentrification of urban areas and the politics of paying rent; The connections between the prison industrial complex and the surveillance of Black and Brown bodies; Experiences with local organizing and how state borders impact our abilities to create and sustain inter/national movements

Psychogeographies: What it means to call a space a “home;” Psychogeography and the emotional / behavioral impact of a space; Strategies to effectively use social media as a tool to build alliances across geographic borders; Personal exposure, secrecy, and surveillance culture; Aging and how we separate different chapters or parts of our lives

Inclusion and Exclusion: White supremacy and xenophobia within the feminist movement; Concrete strategies to “show up” for our community members facing violence; Organizing in solidarity with identity and geographically-based communities you are not a member of; “Women’s spaces” and addressing transmisogyny in feminist communities; Arguments amongst the general Left to either divide or unify radicals and liberals; Restorative justice and informal efforts concerning how to handle sexual assault allegations, hate speech, and other acts of violence in our communities (banishment, intervention, accountability processes, etc.)

Communities: How do we define “community”?; Reaching out to and including feminists who are geographically isolated; Addressing dis/ability and making feminist spaces more physically accessible; The establishment of sober spaces and strategies for sober people to safely move through drinking spaces; Who is and is not included in our conceptions of community?; The push for “safer spaces” and the confluence of safety with comfort; Observing noticeable differences in our communities; Working within collectivist structures; Moving on from toxic / unhealthy friendships and relationships; Learning how to spend time alone; Bridging emotional and physical distances with others

All written submissions would ideally be between 500-2,500 words, or between 1-5 single-spaced pages in 12pt Times New Roman font. We are also in need of images (photos, drawings, paintings, etc) that will format properly as background designs — this means fitting into a vertical 5.5 inch x 8.5 inch page as accurately as possible, contrasting well in grayscale, and being noticeable while allowing the written text over-top of it to still be legible. We strongly prefer art that does not just portray thin / white / cis / able-bodied people. All accepted material will be compensated with a small cash stipend, one print copy and one PDF copy of the zine, and one Hoax pin. We will pay all shipping costs, whether domestic or international. Please aim to e-mail us your amazing material to [email protected] by our deadline, OCTOBER 31ST, 2017! If you are interested, feel free to send us your ideas for topics and artwork! As always, we are willing to work with you during any and every stage of the writing process. The sooner you send us your submissions and ideas, the better! Thank you so much to every contributor, reader, and supporter of this zine! We are looking forward to seeing your work! Please tell your friends and spread the word! In Solidarity, sari (Editor) & rachel (Editorial Assistant)

hoaxzine

NEW DEADLINE - OCTOBER 31ST, 2017

HOAX #13: FEMINISMS & SPACES IS NOW FOR SALE

+ What is Hoax? Hoax is a US annual queer feminist compilation zine that aims to create a space where we can voice our own truths. Each issue has a theme in tandem with feminisms. Contributors do not have to identify with a particular gender and/or as feminists in order to submit work to the zine. You can learn more about Hoax via links about our Mission Statement, Core Values, and Shared Goals, General Hoax FAQs, Submission FAQs, and Stipends for Submissions.

Essays in this Issue:

An exploratory essay by a queer teacher about whether or not classrooms can be considered safe spaces

A call to action to counteract dominant activist discourse that permits activists with privilege to police marginalized activists on the basis of not participating in activism "correctly"

A short essay about minority feminist art spaces in the second and third wave, essentially arguing for people to not rely on tokenism

An essay about the author’s struggle to negotiate his identity as a femme queer trans man online, including his attempts to pass as cis online while being out as trans in real life

Using relationship anarchy and anarchist approaches to commitment to (re)frame messed-up family relationships in terms of in/accessibility

A creative nonfiction meditation on systemic racism, white supremacist normativity, and American society's conditioned, unconscious justification for the continuous injustices of heterosexual white men and how, historically, their heinous actions have always gone unquestioned

A personal essay describing a young woman's experience getting an IUD (intrauterine device) after the most recent presidential election for fear that affordable healthcare could be eliminated

A discussion of the ways in which the queer community can be unwelcoming to those whose identities don't fit the mainstream queer narratives

Experiences working in a domestic violence shelter and how its nonprofit infrastructure made the author’s work harder and exasperated their caregiver burnout

Identifying the need and subsequently carving space for oneself as a non-binary transgender feminist

An ode to the author’s city and an understanding of how white supremacy has historically and continues to shape the city’s politics, community, and culture

A short narrative on reclaiming physical space

The closet metaphor is both too singular a metaphor for how the author segment their queerness online, and also inaccurate given the author's use of trash bags for storing clothes

Tracing the origins of Canadian queer zine culture

Establishing distance from difficult memories, and the allegory of clocks as instruments of timekeeping

A critique of academic spaces that addresses the importance of integrating anti-oppressive strategies into research methodology

Orthodox Jewish and Native American menstrual rituals in America and how ritual seclusion can be perceived as empowering and used as a way to affirm identity and difference

Distancing oneself from hostile environments, including a parent, the nonprofit industrial complex, and white feminism as manifested through the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, as a form of reclaiming agency and considering possibilities for a whole self

Told in second person, an experimental creative non-fiction piece on recovering from psychosis and depression

An examination of how the colloquialisms dispatched and the postures held by heteronormative society affect one's personal growth

This issue also includes poetry, a comic, feminists we love, current feminist heroes, and a vegan/gf recipe for Red Lentil and Collards Soup! The zine is ½ size, black & white, 80 pages, printed in English, and very text heavy.

+ Note about Triggering Content: We are circulating the above descriptive list in an effort to reveal the content and chronological order of this issue, thus creating the opportunity for readers to judge on a personal basis as to which essays could be potentially triggering or uncomfortable to them. We have chosen not to place trigger warnings on specific pieces in Hoax because we recognize that triggers are unique and highly personal. We believe that it is impossible to discern what content has the potential to be upsetting and/or triggering to every one of our readers, and we do not want to inadvertently create a hierarchy of what material is “intense” or “real” enough to warrant a warning. Please contact us if you have suggestions as to how to better incorporate trigger warnings into future issues of Hoax.

+ Note about Pricing and Stipends: This issue costs US$3.50. All of the money procured for Hoax goes right back into this not-for-profit project. As mentioned above, pre-sales are vital for ensuring that we are able to give adequate stipends to our contributors. What we are able to offer for compensation will depend on the amount of revenue from sales and pre-sales. Although we cannot afford to pay very much (probably just enough to purchase a few zines), we hope that offering a stipend, however small, will ensure that our contributors of the present and future know that their submissions are valued and appreciated.

You can order via our Etsy shop (for PayPal payments, where you can also find back issues on mythologies, vulnerabilities, embodiments, strategy, and healing as well as some Hoax pins and many of our personal zines) or, if you prefer well hidden US cash via snail mail, you can e-mail us at hoaxzine (at) gmail (dot) com to find out where to send it. If you are interested in potentially becoming a contributor to Hoax, please check out our call for submissions for Hoax #14: Feminisms & Boundaries, which is accepting submissions until May 31st, 2017 (deadline is flexible)!

+ Note about Mailing: We will be mailing out issues on a first-come, first-serve basis as soon as possible, optimally starting on Monday March 27th – but our ability to purchase necessary printing / mailing supplies and send copies out depends on when we will sell enough zines to afford to get everything in the mail. As always, feel free to send us an email if you have any questions about the status of your order.

+ Note about Not Listing Contributors’ Names: We have included a screenshot of the Table of Contents above to safeguard our contributors from “being Googleable” while providing credit and transparency as to who collaborated on this issue. Content that is consented to appear in print is not automatically consented to appear online and respect for our contributors’ comfort, safety, and privacy is also one of many reasons why circulated issues of Hoax are only found in hard copy form.

+ Other Ways to Support this Project: We’d love for you to submit content to future issues of the zine, come to an assembly party (upcoming in Baltimore!), write a review about Hoax, recommend it to your friends and favorite zine distros, and/or donate money to overall Hoax operations via PayPal (our account is hoaxzine at gmail dot com).

Please reblog to spread the word! Happy reading, y’all!

With care,

sari (Editor) & rachel (Editorial Assistant)

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