call for submissions!

Vol. 6 (Winter 2023/2024): THE TIME TRAVEL ISSUE

We are currently taking submissions for our next issue. Our theme is TIME TRAVEL! We want to hear about the historical figures that informed your developing queer/trans styles, what you imagine for our queer future. Think Queerasures & Queertopias: Past, Present, and In Futurity! We’re particularly interested in receiving submissions that considers queer fashion, past, present, or future in terms of climate change and fashion’s role in (un)sustainability. We would love to hear from up and coming drag artists and independent fashion designers. You are welcome to send us submissions outside of the theme, but submissions that relate to the theme are highly encouraged. We accept anything that can be displayed on a website: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tutorial, illustration, comix, photography, painting, video, drag, costume/fashion designs, hot takes, interviews, and so on!

We pay 50 USD per text-based submission and up to 150 USD (note, this is a change from previous issues) per multimedia submission (video, photography, image + text, fashion spread + interview, etc.), determined by the editor who accepts the piece for publication. We pay using Venmo or PayPal and we are unable to work with any other payment services.

SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN FROM October 1, 2023 to January 15, 2024. Please read specific guidelines below. Please only submit ONE submission. Pitches that don’t fall under any specific category (or multiple categories) can be sent to info@justfemmeanddandy.com, but please do take some time to consider which section it most applies.  

Learn more about each section by visiting the submit section on our website.

NOTE: Some of our sections have changed! Read below.

We take submissions for consideration in features, manivestoes (queer futures & radical identities), sew what (DIY/shift/makeshift), genderfuckery (isn’t it obvious?), fat + furious (fatshion), and cancel & gretel (ethics & inclusion). We also take submissions for not what it seams, a column housed within sew what that focuses on costuming.

Please send your submissions to the following emails for each section:

genderfuckery: genderfuckery@justfemmeanddandy.com
sew what / not what it seams: sewwhat@justfemmeanddandy.com
manivestoes: manivestoes@justfemmeanddandy.com
fat + furious: fatfurious@justfemmeanddandy.com
cancel & gretel: cancelgretel@justfemmeanddandy.com

We take interviews, artist profiles, complete submissions in any genre that can be housed on a website, as well as pitches and inquiries. Email the specific section you believe your submission fits.

Please include with your submission a short bio of no more than 150 words, your headshot (including image description), any images, video, and/or audio (including alt-text - descriptions of images and video, transcriptions for audio, etc), along with a note of how your submission fits our mission and the particular category you are submitting to for consideration. We have no word count limitations, but we ask you be thoughtful about length as it relates to screen fatigue.

Headshots are not mandatory, so feel free to not include them if you would not like them included, just let us know in your submission.

We do expect you to consider yourself part of the LGBTQIA+ community, but we won’t be policing/asking directly.

We love all your many names and monikers, but please make it explicitly clear which name you would like to be published under.

We do expect all submissions to directly relate to LGBTQIA+ fashion/aesthetics, but our framework for that is flexible. We do not expect nor do we require anyone to be an “expert” on fashion. We see every human as a unique vessel, and we’ve long observed that 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.

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. Please ask if you need help/support for resources on how to write alt text, and we’re happy to direct you to resources.

NOTE: Your submission will be considered incomplete until you have submitted all of these materials.

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. We have no interest in participating in a system that steals from artists.

We take simultaneous submissions, but please let us know as soon as your submission has been accepted for publication elsewhere.

All general questions should be addressed to info@justfemmeanddandy.com.