Pitches wanted (trans, queer activism) | $250 per article
Added 2024-07-31 01:23:03 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: NACLA REPORT
Deadline: 21 August 2024
Now accepting proposals for our NACLA Report issue CUERPOS FURIOSOS: Travesti, Trans, Queer Politics in the Americas, guest edited by Cole Rizki. Send us your pitches by August 21.
CALL FOR PITCHES | CUERPOS FURIOSOS: TRAVESTI, TRANS, CUIR POLITICS IN REVOLT
On May 24, 2023, elderly travesti and trans activists took to the streets in Buenos Aires in the first Plurinational March for Travesti-Trans Historic Reparations. With support from over 100 organizations, the march demanded material forms of collective repair for the state violence that has radically curtailed travesti and trans lives. In doing so, these activists draw attention to long histories of political, social, and economic violence in Argentina inseparable from dynamics across the Americas, from dictatorship-era police and military abuses to the impacts of extractive neoliberalism in times of democracy. Their demands, as well as their expansive vision of a plurinational movement, highlight how these varied forms of violence produce disability, dispossession, and other material conditions that require repair.
At their best, travesti, trans, and queer politics forge connections that cut across histories of violence and social movements, enacting the solidarities we need to fight back. Such radical and transversal travesti, trans, and queer politics contend with some of the most pressing social, political, and economic issues of our time. Their demands for reparations and racial, environmental, housing, migrant, and disability justice can orient us toward a material and redistributive politics that challenges anti-Blackness, settler-colonialism, fascism and authoritarianism, extractivism, dispossession, and imperialism. In other words, travesti, trans, and queer activisms go far beyond calls for legal rights and recognition, where identity is narrowly defined and beholden to the state.
The Spring 2025 issue of the NACLA Report, guest edited by Cole Rizki, will explore these themes of collective resistance across diverse lines of struggle. For this issue, we are looking for pieces that examine these expansive solidarities as well as the longstanding and emerging role of travesti, trans, and queer activisms in shaping contemporary politics across the hemisphere. We also welcome pieces that examine the historical and ongoing evolution of public policy, legislation, and other creative and embodied forms of resistance.
We’re interested in pieces addressing travesti, trans, and queer politics as they relate to topics including, but not limited to:
Archives and historical and collective memory, genocide, sexual terror, as well as reparations and transitional justice processes
Strategies for revolution: uprising, revolt, insurgence, and marronage
The rise of the far right as expressed in gender ideology, ecclesiastical movements, trans exclusionary radical feminisms (TERFs), and parental rights groups
Police and military violence, criminalization, militarization, securitization, punitivism, carcerality, and abolition
Plantation and hacienda economies, racial capitalism, debt and austerity, survival and popular economies, anarchocapitalism, and neoliberalism
Migration, diasporas, displacement, asylum, exile, borders, return, and other forms of mobility and immobility
Circuits of incarceration, confinement, disappearance, detention
Creative forms of resistance including ballroom, artivism, graffiti art, protest chants, flash dance mobs, karaoke, vernacular photography, installation art, and other media
Geographies and scales of resistance: Abya Yala, Améfrica Ladina, the caravan, the backseat, and the street corner
Sexual economies, sex work, sex tourism, and economies of pleasure and intimacies
Disability, debility, capacity
Aging and age-based politics across generations, from youth to old age and beyond
Kinship, dwelling, housing justice, okupas, collectivity, quilombo, single-room occupancy hotels, and the commons
Pandemic and travesti, trans, queer health, including issues of mutual aid, collective care, care labor, medical access, self-determination, reproductive justice, and depathologization
Climate and environmental justice
For articles, we are interested in pieces that examine specific, narrowly defined topics and are written in a lively, accessible manner. We give preference to articles that are based on original research and interviews. We are also especially seeking art, music, and creative writing from across the region. We are interested in working with artists to showcase their work in hybrid print and digital formats.
Please send a brief pitch (250 words) outlining the thrust and tone of your proposed piece and why you are well positioned to write it by August 21, 2024, to managing editor Heather Gies at hgies@nacla.org. We will respond to pitches by September 5. Drafts of accepted articles (2,500-3,500 words) will be due November 15, 2024.
Pitches and accepted articles may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. NACLA offers a small symbolic honorarium of $250 to contributors who depend on writing as their primary source of income.
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CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):
Questions/submissions: hgies@nacla.org
Website: https://nacla.org/
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