call for submissions!

open submissions

We are currently taking rolling submissions for future just femme & dandy mixtapes! Read more about it here.

We’re interested in writing and art that arise from the role fashion offers within queer identity and queer life. Consider what we tend to think of when we think of fashion: clothing, hair, cosmetics, accessories, and shoes. Consider what we tend to think of when we think of LGBTQIA+ fashion: drag, cosplay, transness, disability and adaptive wear, gender play, performance, subversion, costume, and so on. As you consider submitting, imagine the body your submission can take and consider how that body would be printed and fit inside a vinyl dust jacket. We pay anywhere from $50-$150 depending on the piece.

All submissions must relate to LGBTQIA+ fashion/aeshetics created by and centering LGBTQIA+ artists, but our framework for that remains flexible. We do not expect nor require anyone be an “expert” on fashion. We see every human as a unique vessel, and we’ve long observed fashion, aesthetics, and style to be a powerful language and reclamation for the LGBTQIA+ community. One of the reasons we do what we do is to intervene in the elitist, inaccessible, ableist, white supremacist, gatekeeping frameworks that have surrounded mainstream fashion.

Now that you know where we’re headed, if you are interested in submitting to the magazine and have designing chops, feel free to submit pieces specially formatted and designed with the mixtape in mind, but you can also send your piece traditionally and we’ll do the rest.

We pay using Venmo or PayPal and are unable to work with any other payment services.

ACCESS/DESIGN NOTE: Your submission MUST include descriptions for all visuals, including images, headshots, and audio descriptions/transcripts for video. Please send images separately instead of embedding them in the document, and make clear which description describes which image (by labeling it the same name as the file, etc.). If you’d like images to be placed in a specific location within the text, please make that clear as well. Please do not include more than 10 images for editing concerns and capacity. 

AI NOTE: We will not accept ANY SUBMISSION that uses AI. If your submission is accepted and we discover that it has been created using AI, we will pull your publication/submission and ask for you to repay your honorarium.

just femme & dandy retains first publication rights. After publication, rights will revert back to the creator. Please credit just femme & dandy if the piece appears elsewhere after publication, including but not limited to journals, magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, books, YouTube, Vimeo, and other multimedia platforms. 

[All submissions must relate to LGBTQIA+ fashion/aeshetics created by and centering LGBTQIA+ artists, but our framework for that remains flexible. We do not expect nor require anyone be an “expert” on fashion. We see every human as a unique vessel, and we’ve long observed fashion, aesthetics, and style to be a powerful language and reclamation for the LGBTQIA+ community.]

Please submit here.

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wedding album

We're celebrating the love of the LGBTQIA+ community by making a global wedding album! 

Please send 1-5 high resolution images of your wedding. Any representative image is welcome (including wedding ceremonies, engagements, commitment ceremonies, and anything else applicable), including drawings, illustrations, paintings, and other similar types of images (as long as no AI has been used to create it).

In your cover letter, please tell us a little about yourselves and your connection, and anything about the photo/event/day you'd like to share. 

Please submit here.