Pitches wanted (Palestine) | $100-$250 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE

Deadline: 11 April 2024

Science for the People seeks proposals for articles, art, and other content for the upcoming issue on “Palestine” (Volume 26, no. 3, Spring 2024).

We see our publication as a platform of the Palestinian liberation movement.

As radical science practitioners, academics, and activists largely based in North America and Europe, we condemn Israel’s occupation of Palestine and its genocide against the Palestinian people. We bear witness to the influence of Zionism and anti-Palestinian racism on university and college campuses, in our communities and workplaces, and the murders of our Palestinian colleagues by Israel and Western governments. As a radical science organization, we intend to bring to light the ways in which science, technology, and engineering are being weaponized for increasingly sophisticated and brutal violence against the oppressed. It is also important that we consider those in the social sciences, humanities, jurisprudence, and in many other fields that have been equally weaponized by imperialism and deployed for the suppression of pro-Palestinian voices.

We are particularly enthusiastic about submissions centered around the following topics:

• How the Israeli occupation has impacted Palestinian science and scientists
• The role of science, technology, and engineering in orchestrating and facilitating the occupation and attacks on Palestinians
• The process for and challenges associated with enacting educational boycott within the BDS movement
• The long-term effects of the onslaught on Gaza on healthcare and public health
• Suppression of pro-Palestinian voices in and outside of the classroom on university campuses and the subsequent response of students and faculty
• Testimonials from Palestinian academics
• The labor movement, social justice unionism in academia and its intersection with BDS and Palestine
• Efforts by Israel to wash the testing and export of AI used for ethnic cleansing as ‘public good’ efforts such as biological image analysis
• The intersection of pinkwashing with soft power, LGBTQIA+ rights at universities, and the demonization of Muslim and Arab men.
• The suppression of the right to dissent and social justice organizations on university campuses.

We will make an effort to review all submissions quickly and post time-sensitive materials on a dedicated special issues page on our website. Later, we will select several pieces for the next volume of our print magazine, which we expect to be completed in June of this year. We will continue to welcome, accept, and solicit contributions on this topic after the issue has gone to print.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• Submit proposals here (English) or here (Spanish).
• Deadline for submissions: April 11, 2024
• We ask prospective authors to provide a detailed outline.
• We accept proposals for features, opinions, book and media reviews, artwork and more. You can read more about the kinds of articles we publish and our rates here.
• Please keep outlines under one page and image uploads to 20 Mb total.
• Science for the People articles are geared toward non-specialists, and are written in a journalistic format and from a radical perspective. We consider submissions from scientists across the STEM fields, scholars working in science and technology studies, as well as non-scientists and non-specialists. We especially encourage submissions from activists and those organizing in the sciences, and those working in the humanities and arts at their intersection of science and technology. We particularly welcome women, people of color, non-binary individuals, and others traditionally underrepresented in these fields to send submissions to Science for the People.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

• Submissions: Via the webform
• Website: https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Science for the People aims to build and promote social movements and political struggles around progressive and radical perspectives on science and society. It is committed to the democratic practice of science for the benefit of humanity and the planet. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent articles/stories on its website.
• Review the submission guidelines here.
• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook Database and at SuccessfulPitches.com.
• Do not forget to end your pitch with (1) a short introduction about yourself; (2) a paragraph highlighting your writing experience, relevant credentials and publication credits; and (3) links to your strongest work or portfolio, and online profile.

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