OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2011-2012

**** pls forward far & wide ****

We are looking for any and all definitions of writing and art: artwork, graffiti, hip hop, photos, journalism, poetry, stories, ideas, quotes, film, book and music reviews, paintings, drawings…basically if you can put in on a page, you can send it in!! we welcome all indigenous languages. we want to include some outside-the-mainstream political education that doesn’t often make it into remote communities, jails, and on the streets.

we also really want to try and raise up voices that don’t get heard from, even in our own communities: youth, women, two spirited peoples and the many of us living in extreme poverty without access to a lot of technology.

we’re also looking for people who can commit to some distribution: handing them out on the streets, in remote communities and reserves, youth and womyn’s centers, shelters, jails, detention centers, on the powwow trail. if you know anything about editing or producing a magazine, we need some help there too.

we go by and agree on a few things:

(1) we protect and defend the water, the land, our people and our indigenous way of life,

(2) we don’t work with police, government or the state

(3) we honor womyn and two spirited peoples, and

(4) we believe that no one can struggle for us, but us.

Submission Guidelines

* If you’re submitting, please tell us the title you want to see published and include a word count.

* Please include your nation, community and name. We encourage you to use a handle/pen name (alternative to your english name, can be a nickname), but it’s up to you.

*ART and photos should be as high a resolution as possible (minimum 300 dpi). If you want to mail us your work, let us know!

All submissions/questions, etc. can be sent to:

indigenouscollective@gmail.com

Submissions are always welcome and always being accepted. This is an ongoing, long term project and we always love hearing from you!

Gchi Migwech / Nia:wen Kowa / Wado / Welalin

The Indigenous Artists & Writers Collective is an autonomous group of Indigenous women, men youth and two spirit people who came together to create an uncensored, independent mag talking about our issues, in our communities, in our own voices.

This generation is rising up, decolonizing our minds and reclaiming our freedom. So let’s gather and talk, in as many places, in as many ways as we can!

Indigenous Sovereignty can be expressed in many, many ways. Being sovereign as an Indigenous person can mean speaking your Original language, knowing the land, creating a garden with ancestral seeds or defending our homelands from logging, mining and exploitation.

Do you have art that celebrates the honor within our ways of being? How about work that poetically engages education, maybe something you’ve wanted to share about the beauty of Indigenous women, how colonization is affecting you or your community, your battles with addictions, abuse or violence?

Please send all submissions, questions, rants and love-notes to: indigenouscollective@gmail.com

Indigenous Anticapitalist Network