write for us

We accept pitches, works in progress, and completed submissions. For jfd editions, please find more information here. For the just femme + dandy newsletter, please read a few posts to get an idea of what we’re about, as well as a call for submissions. For pocket square, we accept pitches and submissions for queer fashion journalism, fashion editorials, and artwork that fits the style and content of queer and fashion magazines, as well as inquiries to be featured as our upcoming musician (keep in mind that we’re working off very limited funds when deciding to inquire). Any other ideas or inquiries? Be in touch. Send all pocket square and newsletter inquiries to addie@justfemmeanddandy.com.

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. We pay, depending on funding.

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 any of our print projects, feel free to submit pieces specially formatted and designed with pocket square or the zine style of jfd editions in mind, but you can also send your piece in a standard text file and we’ll do the rest.

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.