Adventures in Mothering Across Cultures

(to be edited by Suzanne Kamata)

What happens when your child doesn’t speak your native language? Should you invite your German-American in-laws to your Diwali celebration? How can you raise a child with two cultures without fracturing his/her identity? In our increasingly global society, more and more mothers are facing questions such as these.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!Call Out for Zine Contributors!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feminist Childrearing/Feminist Kids Zine

(deadline: Sept. 2008)

We are a group of parents, educators and people who care about children, who want a feminist upbringing for the next generation. The group started at the 9th march 2008 Feminist Gathering in Hackney London, and is open for all to join. We would like to create networks to support and discuss feminist childrearing issues and push childrearing issues in feminist activist circles.

Funding Exchange Announces New Guidelines for Paul Robeson
Fund for Independent Media

Deadline: May 15, 2008

The Funding Exchange's ( http://www.fex.org/ ) Paul Robeson Fund
for Independent Media supports media activism and grassroots org-
anizing by funding the pre-production and distribution of social
issue film and video projects as well as the production and dis-

Revolutionary Motherhood

Call for submissions

Due by April 30th, 2008

We are creating a global multi-media publication called Revolutionary Motherhood inspired by the Incite! 2008 Southwest conference and the workshop entitled: Revolutionary Motherhood. The intention of this publication is to inspire, connect, and organize women and transfolk of color who perform motherhood and daughterhood to co-create life-affirming, mutually liberating communities.

Call for submissions: My Baby Rides the Short Bus – an upcoming anthology to be published by PM Press (Winter, 2009)

We are seeking submissions from a diverse group of parents rising special needs kids who feel marginalized by their subculture status (economics, lifestyle, orientation, religion/atheism) and underrepresented in print.

Got tips on how to stay sane during the IEP process when you don’t believe in the system to begin with? Felt you had to hide you radical political books while the Early Intervention Folks come over? Found yourself stuck a mainstream world of special needs parenting that you don’t fit into?

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!!! PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!!!! PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!!!!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LOUDmouth Spring 2008 Issue

LOUDmouth magazine -- a feminist magazine coming out of Cal State LA -- is seeking essays (critical and/or personal), investigative reportage, research, poetry, prose, experimental pieces, critical analysis, fiction, photography,illustrations, artwork (including cover artwork), and more for our Spring issue on the theme of ENVIRONMENT.

Call for Submissions: Shameless Magazine's First Anthology

Shameless, a feminist magazine for teenage girls, is putting together
an anthology for publication in Spring 2009 and we're currently
looking for submissions! Check out the call below (And please post
and forward to anyone you feel might be interested!)

Co-editors Megan Griffith-Greene and Stacey May Fowles are seeking
submissions for an anthology for teen girls to be published by

Please Forward Widely!

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* Thinking of joining a nunnery?

* Feeling asexual and just want to cuddle?

* Swinging and loving it?

We want to see/hear/read your stories! Audio stories are great, too. CDs

may accompany the anthology.

SEND YOUR CREATIONS TO THE FORTHCOMING ANTHOLOGY:

"Desire: A Girl's Guide to Dreaming - Queer Women of Color Writing Critically on the Erotic" (working title)

Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant for Artists in Minnesota and New York City

Deadline: February 13, 2008

The Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant Program awards
grants to emerging creative artists in Minnesota and New York
City. Funds support periods of travel for the purpose of study,
exploration, and growth.

The 2008 Travel and Study Grant Program will support artists

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Big Ugly Review (www.biguglyreview. com) is seeking submissions for Issue
#7. All submission must somehow relate to the issue's theme, FIGHT OR FLIGHT.

Seeking: FICTION, CREATIVE NONFICTION, POETRY, PHOTO-ESSAY, MUSIC, AND
SHORT FILMS OF FIVE MINUTES OR LESS.

Complete guidelines at www.biguglyreview. com/submissions. html

Categories:

Short Story: Up to 3,000 words