[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: call for submissions: LOUDmouth magazine

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Subject: Fwd: call for submissions: LOUDmouth magazine

FYI call for submissions

>>> Cheryl Klein <cklein at pw.org> 8/15/2006 1:34 PM >>>
Please contact Irina Contreras at the email address below if you are 
interested in submitting.

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LOUDmouth Winter Issue

LOUDmouth magazine -- a feminist magazine coming out
of Cal State LA -- is seeking essays (critical and/or
personal), reportage, research, poetry, prose,
fiction, photography,illustrations, artwork (including
cover artwork) and more for our Winter issue on News.

Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
* Looking at feminism in the media: how is feminism
portrayed today and who is listening?  How should it
be portrayed etc.?  What can we do as media makers,
artists, mothers etc.?
* How have the different labels created even by the
supposed "alternative papers" created how feminism is
looked at?  In particular, we are thinking about the
"waves" of feminism, riot grrrl, zapatismo, 70's
academic feminism etc.?
* a research based piece about who decides what airs. 
Where does our news really come from? How is it
crafted?
* Independent News Projects/radical media all over the
world, country, city, and your backyard.
* Old News.  What happens to it?
* Portraits of who should be in the news. Community
Profiles. 
* Tabloids. Celebrity Gossip, particularly a critical
piece about how and why it so important (or not) in
our culture and everyday life right now. Looking at
race/class/gender in celebrity gossip.
* Zines, artists looking at news or manipulating news,
comics like Boondocks/Simpsons use of news.  
* Anchorwomen: how many are there really?  And the
barrage of the "hot weather girls". 
* "Ethnic News" such as Hoy, Al Jazeera, Watts Times. 
What news is being delivered?  And, how are we mislead
to think (that in the case of Watts Times) that these
are actually made in the communities they claim to be?

*How has the news been or not been democratized by the
internet?  
* Blogs, podcasts, cable, ham radios, reality t.v,
cb's etc. 
* Is the news really changing as the demographics are
changing?
*How the news diverts or attempts to divert our
attention from what is really happening.  How do we
end up watching news about Mel Gibson while Atenco,
Lebanon, immigration struggles take place?
* And can a journalist really be an activist in this
time?

Deadline for pitches: September 1st.
Deadline for unsolicited drafts: August 27th
(What this means: If you want to write about any of
the above topics or another topic related to NEWS,
send a pitch regarding your idea as soon as possible.
Just send a brief note about what you're thinking and
we'll start a back-and-forth about how it might work
for this issue.)

Please note: Contributors need not be students nor
Angelenos nor members of any particular identity
group. Contributors do need to write from a feminist
perspective that takes as a given the
interconnectedness of multiple systems of oppression
and that consciously avoids reinforcing whiteness,
heterosexuality and the like as invisible/normative.
Contributors who are enthusiastic and good with
deadlines are greatly appreciated.  

Please send all submissions to Irina Contreras, Editor
in Chief, at poopstarr at yahoo.com
<http://us.f822.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=poopstarr@yahoo.com&YY=67971&y5
beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0>.

LOUDmouth
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feminism: fem'e-niz'em -n. [The]
movement to end sexism, sexist
exploitation and [all] oppression.





 
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