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Medusa Rising accepts work by women in any genre on any feminist topic and in translation into English. Our call is open all year; we read all year; we usually respond in six weeks, and you are welcome to email us if you don't hear from us in that time :)

We accept work by women from the personal to the political, from the most factual to the most imaginative. We're mostly – but not only – looking for shorter work, as heavy on the moxy/attitude/rizz as on the thought/knowledge/imagination.

We accept pseudonyms to protect women's lives and livelihoods.

We suggest listening to our manifesto to get a sense of the perspective we bring to feminist movement and creativity.

Current Focus

We invite you to share work in any genre. We welcome works that combine or brushes the edges of any of these themes as you feel best gets shouted what needs shouting!

• Lesbian life, community, history, art, music, thriving

• Feminist history, women's history

• Feminist futures and world building, making the matriarchy

• Feminist economics, critiques of economic systems and money

• Metabolizing and growing beyond patriarchal socialization

• The real deal with transhumanism

• Sex, Gender, Identity

• Capitalism in Gender Industries from Beauty to Transition

• Bad Law, Bad Policy, Better Law & Policy

• Women and the law, lawfare vs women

• Women and incarceration

• Capitalism vs everything, class, work, labor

• Identity, Identiarianism, Power

• Violence, Coercion, Femicide

• Feminist economics, care economies, women-centered finance

• Withdrawing from men and men's world, 4B and related movements, women's new social formations and modes of community

• Women's health and well-being, policy &/ experience

• Authoritarianism, Fascism, Fundamentalism

• Technology that supports/threatens womenBeing radical, anarchofeminism, mixed-schools feminists

• Women, ecology, climate

• Effects of climate change on women, experiences, studies

• Women and children migrants, refugees of war and climate disruption

• Male allies working to make better men, books for the men in our lives

• Take-backies: on reflection, what would you do, say, theorize, argue, &/ make differently?

• What's changing for women in your country/region?

• What's going well for women where you are?

• What's the most urgent issue facing women in your country/region?

• Is there a great feminist organization in your region the world should know about &/ support?

Don't see your thing? Want to share something else, from another direction, in another mood, about another topic, wider aperture, sharper vector? Cool. Here's an even bigger list of the deep fields we want to dance in!

Style Note

Audience: Please assume our readers have some background in feminist thought or activism, but are not experts. Imagine your readers will want to put your words into action in some way.

Tone: We prefer a casual, clever, and human voice. That combination of rigor and friendliness is the sweetspot. Jokes, puns, sarcasm, unvarnished truths, rage, and well-polished cursing are all welcome.

Purpose: We really like solutions, proposals, imagination, thriving, plans, luck, theory, successes, models that can be adapted. But, some problems are sticky and wicked and just have to be examined that way.

References: Include sources as in-line links, or list author, title, and date in a reading list at bottom. Please use as much open source, public domain, and free subscription research as possible. Most of our readers do not have institutional affiliations.

Genres & Forms

We accept work by female people in these genres or in combinations of genres:

Visual Artworks, up to 5 pieces in high resolution JPGs

Essay, Memoire, Creative Non-Fiction (<1200 words, ~750 preferred)

Flash fiction, Microfiction, and Poetry

Conversations, Reportage, shorter 'Think Pieces': includes history, reportage, analysis, critique, explorations (~3000 words, will be published in series of ~1000 word posts). If your piece is a conversation, we welcome the participants biographies to be included at the end of the text.

Reviews of all cultural artefacts about or affecting women: film, music, books, podcasts, musicals, music videos, trends on social media, &c. We prefer balanced reviews, but we know that's not always possible. (<1200 words, ~750 preferred)

Policy ideas and proposals, legal history and discussion (<1200 words, ~750 preferred)

Recommendations, super-short positive reviews of culture, books, websites, feminist organizations, up to 100 words – collected and published quarterly.

Long reads and deep dives can range up to 6000 words and will be published as series of 1000-word posts (with links to keep the parts together and in order for readers).

Contributor Fees & Copyright

Your work belongs to you. Copyright reverts on publication. Contributors are kindly asked to credit and/or link to Medusa Rising when work appears elsewhere.

Submit as many places as you can! We know how it is for creators. If work you submit here is accepted elsewhere, please let us know quickly so we can celebrate your success with you!

We pay for work. Not much, but we do believe that women should get paid for work and that women should shift their spending toward women and feminist world building as much as possible.

• Non-fiction prose

  • ~ 750 words - $20 max
  • ~ 1200 words - $40 max
  • ~ 3000 words - $100 max
  • ~ 6000 words - $200 max

• Creative work

  • Micro/flash fiction - $15
  • Poetry - $15
  • Creative/experimental essay or memoire, strongly prefered limit 1200 words, maximum 3000 words - $1o0 max

• Visual Artwork - $30 each piece

All rates in US dollars.

Expectations

Your subscriptions of $5/month or more to Medusa Rising enable our support for feminist artists and writers. We give away a lot of content for free to support access for as many women as possible, so you can see that subscriptions are vital way to share this resource in solidarity.

A bit of expectation setting: We publish a maximum of 8 content posts per month. If we are publishing a series, that could run between 2-6 posts. We have a limited capacity for close editing as we are tiny staff. As our capacity increases, our pace of publication can increase as well. But we know there's cartloads of great feminist work going on. We do not want to overwhelm!

A few other feminist venues we admire (and there are many) are The Anti-Misogyny Club, Feminist Dissent, Total Woman Victory,Restoration Magazine, Womens eNews, Brown Sugar, Women's Liberation Radio News (WLRN), Lilith Magazine, Rewire, The Crunk Feminist Collective, Hawwa, Mistral, ... we could go on. Look in your regions, your languages, the venues and communities are there. We are not the only game in town, and we want your words to get in the world. Not all of these journals align closely with a RadMatFem framework, but connection beats isolation every time!

To you most courageous imagination!!!!

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