Pitches wanted (earth, gender, climate, food, etc.) (worldwide) | $130 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: FEMINIST FOOD JOURNAL 

Deadline: 8 September 2022

Pitches are open for our EARTH issue, focused on gender and all things related to our earth home— climate change, farming, foraging, and more. We pay a flat rate of USD$130 per contribution. Please get in touch with pitch@feministfoodjournal.com by September 8.

WRITE FOR OUR EARTH ISSUE

We’re calling for pitches for our EARTH issue. Please read or pass on the brief below if you’re interested in pitching or know someone who might be. If you’d like to know more about pitching us, our full guidelines can be found here.

Things are precarious here on the third planet from the sun. Our earth has always given us life. We need her, yet we know she is burning. It’s no secret that the way we produce food has a lot to do with it. In turn, food production is under threat from the changes to the climate that some of its methods helped to fuel. Women and marginalized communities are on the frontlines of the impacts we are experiencing.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Thanks to the unplumbable power of plants and soil, agriculture is one of the only sectors with the potential to become a net emissions sink, pulling more carbon out of the atmosphere than it puts in. But we’re a long way from realizing this at scale, and in the meantime, there are many questions to explore about the gendered dimensions of our changing earth.

We know that much of this is old news, so we’re looking for fresh ways and lesser-heard voices to tell these stories. Our EARTH issue will focus on gender and all things related to our irreplaceable earth home: climate change, food production, plant medicine, and much more.

To pitch for this issue, please get in touch at pitch@feministfoodjournal.com by midnight CET on September 8, 2022. Some general topics we have in mind (to be unpacked, of course, through an intersectional feminist lens) include:

• Feminist agroecology
• Climate change
• Foods and ways of growing/eating that are under threat from climate change
• Permaculture
• Ecofeminism
• Indigenous food systems
• WWOOFing
• Farming while Black and/or with other historically marginalized identities
• Foraging and/or stories about trailblazing foragers
• Nomadic lifestyles in the modern world
• Plant medicine
• Seed saving, sharing, rematriation, and/or seed breeding
• Novel perspectives on the harms of the global industrial food system
• Farm-to-table/farming for haut cuisine
• Critical readings of existing texts on agricultural futures (e.g., works by Michael Pollan, Dan Brown)
• Farming and labour
• Agriculture and women’s economic empowerment
• Farmer’s/food movements (e.g., the Via Campesina, Slow Food International)
• Global development initiatives focused on agriculture (e.g., CGIAR)

The topics in this list are broad — and we’re open to all other ideas — but please pitch us a story, not just a topic. A good pitch will present a compelling narrative and a strong sense of character and place. We’re particularly interested in stories that haven’t been told elsewhere, coming from diverse geographic and cultural perspectives. These stories can be historical, contemporary, or even fictitious; what matters most is that they offer new ways of thinking about the relationship between food, the earth, gender, and power.

For more information, you can find our full pitch guidelines here.

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

Submissions: pitch@feministfoodjournal.com

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

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