Pitches wanted (sea) | $130 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: FEMINIST FOOD JOURNAL

Deadline: 11 July 2023

Isabela Vera and Zoe Johnson, Founders of Feminist Food Journal, are looking for pitches:

We’re calling for pitches for our SEA issue. Please read or pass on the brief below if you’re interested in pitching or know someone who might be. We are accepting story ideas at pitch@feministfoodjournal.com until midnight CEST, July 11, 2023. Learn more about how to pitch by reading our full guidelines here.

CALL FOR PITCHES: SEA

The sea can mean many things to many people; at once mythical, spiritual, material, dangerous, and in danger, our SEA issue wants to explore the sea and how it relates to what we consume and how we consume it.

Please note that we’re open to pitches focusing not only on oceans but also water more broadly (this can mean lakes, rivers, streams, humanmade pools, water policy, salt, irrigation, agriculture, pesticides — in essence, anything about liquid!). The sea could also be used to denote space, a separator of people or things, or a medium by which people travel or escape. We can talk about seafood, algae, desalination technology, or mermaids, myths, and migration.

Sea (and water) does not necessarily need to be the central focus of the piece, but can also be an entry point. The same, as always, goes for gender and food. Most of all, we’re interested in stories that tell us something about power, risk, and resistance, and how they may flow through water, our bodies, and the world around us.

Stories for this issue can be whimsical or serious in tone; fiction or non-fiction, written or audio/visual. Topics, for example, that would fit well for this issue include the ama divers in Japan, professional fisherwomen who have been freediving for seafood and pearl oysters for up to 2,000 years and hold important but disappearing ancestral knowledge about the sea. We’d love to hear more about the Tsunami Ladies project, which brought together women cooks from Chile and Japan who survived the tsunamis that decimated their homes in 2010 and 2011, or similar initiatives to bring women and food together across seas. How are deep-sea fishing practices impacting women in communities which historically depended on now-declining fish stocks? What’s the deal with seaweed aquaculture? How does food imagery feature in the Odyssey and how might this relate to gender? Did the original Little Mermaid predict how countries would start to protect the agency and sentience of seafood?

These are a few specific ideas, so more broadly, the themes we’re excited about include:

• The geopolitics of the sea and their relation to gender
• Our relationships, practical or emotional, to the sea and the food it provides us with
• Aquaculture
• Climate change and the impact on marine life/our lives
• Links between the sea and cultural foodways
• Historical pieces about colonization and resistance as enabled by the sea
• Natural disasters and shipwrecksLiterature or film critiques

Please send your ideas to pitch@feministfoodjournal.com by midnight CEST, July 11, 2023. Get in touch with us if you have any questions in the meantime, or check out our full pitch guidelines here. We currently pay a flat rate of US$130 per piece.

CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):

Submissions: pitch@feministfoodjournal.com

Website: https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/

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