Currently in progress: Issue 2
The theme of the second issue: First rule of misogyny: Women are responsible for what men do.
Soft deadline: winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.
I’ve been stuck with this issue, but still want to see it to fruition. Submissions are still accepted.
We’d love to see your writing!
Essays, slice of life, fiction, poetry, musings, ramblings, reviews, forbidden questions: everything that fills lots of space in your thoughts and you don’t feel like you can share anywhere else.
I want to feature as many different women’s voices from as many different places as possible. We have more in common than the patriarchy would like us to believe. We’re in the same boat, and we have to work together. So if you have something to say, please say! Don’t stay silent!
Please send your pieces to: zine@roots.pub
The YES list:
- Please send your writing in an open format, for example .odt, .txt, .doc, .docx etc. No pdfs please.
- Include a brief third person biography. You can be as precise or as vague as you wish. For example: Becky is a mother who lives in Scandinavia and works in IT.
- For essays/nonfiction, imagine you are writing a letter to a friend rather than an op-ed for an important magazine. Keep it personal; your story is a whisper in another woman’s ear.
The NO list:
- NO calls to violence.
- NO “cis”, “trans” anything. Use Sex Matters or Women’s Declaration USA guides when writing about “gender identity”. If you absolutely have to use these words, put them in quotation marks.
- no pdfs please. They’re a hassle to work with.
Please note that we are unable to compensate for your writing. If you’d like to be paid, please consider writing to 4w.pub, feministcurrent.com or creating a blog on Substack.
Roots operates under a Creative Commons license. Your writing will be copyrighted with an Attribution licence, meaning that anyone can take and use your work for any purpose, as long as it is attributed to your name and Roots zine. One reason is practical: we have no means of ensuring that any other kind of licene would be respected, and Attribution is the easiest one to respect (just say where you got the text from, that’s it). Another is ideological: we want ideas expressed in Roots be spread far and wide like dandelion seeds, and an open license is best for that.