LOUDmouth magazine — a feminist magazine coming out
of Cal State LA — is seeking essays (critical and/or
personal), investigative reportage, research, poetry,
prose, experimental pieces, critical analysis,
fiction, photography,illustrations, artwork (including
cover artwork), funny math and more for our
Spring/Summer issue on
the theme of MOVEMENT.
Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
* Feminism as a movement. Tokenism. How do we really
measure progress? A woman president? A CEO that is a
woman? Is it beyond race, class and gender constructs?
Femme/Butch/Machismo/Papi: progress or labels?
* Ableism and/or the ability to move. Paralysis. Bike
Culture and privilege.
* Transience. Gentrification. Migration.
Transnationalism. Immigration and the various isms of
movement.
* Political and social movement. The history, the
documentation, and the contemporary ways in which we
access knowledge and empowerment. Which movements?
Whose movements? What matters to a movement? Is
movement dead? Are the movements of yesteryear
outdated? What if anything can be gained from the
nostalgia of movement?
* Dance. Intersections between movement of the body
and cultural politics. Feminism in dance/guerrila
dance troupes.
* Transportation and access to transportation.
* Freedom Rides, Immigration Rides, Otra Compana etc.
* The politics and privilege of travel. Does a global
movement exist? And what about globe-trotting
leftists?
* The moving image: women behind and in front of the
camera. Experimental women filmmakers.
*The forces of nature, shifting icecaps and the people
that believe global warming doesn’t exist.
* Tracking movement and migration throughout the
world. Homeland Security.
*The movement for sustainable living and food source.
* Forced movement and migration (From Katrina to the
displacement of the Downtown homeless population in
Los Angeles)
Deadline for pitches: March 25th
Deadline for unsolicited drafts: March 22nd
(What this means: If you want to write about any of
the above topics or another topic related to MOVEMENT,
send a pitch regarding your idea as soon as possible.
Just send a brief note about what you’re thinking and
we’ll start a back-and-forth about how it might work
for this issue.)
Please note: Contributors need not be students nor
Angelenos nor members of any particular identity
group. Contributors do need to write from a feminist
perspective that takes as a given the
interconnectedness of multiple systems of oppression
and that consciously avoids reinforcing whiteness,
heterosexuality and the like as invisible/normative.
Contributors who are enthusiastic and good with
deadlines are greatly appreciated.
Please send all submissions to Irina Contreras, Editor
in Chief, at loudmouthzine@gmail.com
LOUDmouth
www.calstatela.edu/usu/loudmouth
feminism: fem’e-niz’em -n. [The]
movement to end sexism, sexist
exploitation and [all] oppression.
