Digital Dialogues: Navigating Online Spaces - Call for Papers and Artwork

deadline for submissions: 
October 11, 2018
full name / name of organization: 
Intersectional Apocalypse

Intersectional Apocalypse is a student-made, student-run, and student-edited online journal which makes centring marginalised voices and experiences a priority.

 

As an anti-oppressive, anti-colonial and decolonial, non-hierarchical, and diversity focused journal, we bring the attention of our first issue to navigating online spaces, where we will explore the many complexities of marginalised experiences online and relating to online spaces. Covering all the highs, lows, and in-betweens of navigating online spaces, we welcome diverse and dissonant perspectives. This is where you come in: be they positive or negative, we want to hear about your experiences! Tell us how aspects of your identity have influenced the way you interact online!

What we’re looking for:

  • Submissions from marginalised people: emphasis on black and Indigenous people of colour (BIPOC), disabled, and LGBTQ2IA+ perspectives.

  • All media accepted and encouraged: academic articles (max. 3000 words), personal/narrative texts (max. 3000 words), videos (max. 20 mins), images, music, podcasts (max. 1 hour), poems, art, interviews, etc. If you have creations that exceed our maximums, please contact us.

Prompts:

The list below is not exhaustive. If you have any ideas relating to the topic that are not mentioned below, please feel free to submit! We would love to see your creations.

  • (In)accessibility on the Internet

  • LGBTQ2IA+ and Feminist Online Communities

  • Mental Health, Support, and Resources

  • Finding Community, Celebrating Networking

  • Hashtag Activism, Call-Out and Boycott Culture

  • Body Positivity and Virtual Embodied Experiences

  • Online Dating and Relationships

  • Online Sex Work and Critiques of Anti-Sex Work Policies and Rhetoric

  • Digital Privacy

  • Content Creators, Ownership, and Content Consumers

  • Oppressive Website Administration

  • Cyber Harassment

  • Indigenous Online Cultures

  • Cultural Colonialism and Appropriation

  • Challenging Racism Online

  • Food, Blogging, and Racism

  • Critiques of White Feminism, White Tears, and the White Saviour Complex  

To view the full CFP, click here: https://tinyurl.com/ycc67ff8