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Sister Stories: Sisters of Frida submission call-out
We’re excited to announce a call-out for the new Sisters of Frida blog series, and we need your help!
This ongoing blog project is for you and will be shaped by you, the Sisters of Frida community. It will be an online space to share your experiences, stories and creativity, and help us to create a digital sisterhood and archive of disabled women’s voices.
We want to showcase work by writers and artists living with chronic illness, mental illness, and disability. Your work doesn’t need to be about those experiences exclusively, but we welcome and encourage submissions along those lines.
We’re looking for contributions of things that inspire you, this can include non-fiction, fiction, poems, illustrations, photographs, essays, reviews, etc.
Here are some quotes we like:
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lorde
“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.” – Unknown
If you’d like to contribute:
- Send all submissions with the subject SISTER STORIES: *TITLE OF PIECE* to sisofrida@gmail.com
- Please include a short third-person bio and your pronouns, but if you’d like to remain anonymous, that’s fine! Just let us know. If you also want to include a brief background about the piece, please feel free to do so.
- Attach submissions to your email in an accessible format.
- Non-fiction, essays, reviews should be no longer than 1,000 words.
- Poetry/Artwork – Please submit no more than 5 individual pieces.
- Languages: We welcome submissions in any language but please provide a translation if possible.
The blog will be updated monthly, so expect a calendar’s worth of stories! The frequency may increase depending on the number of submissions.
If you have an idea but need a bit of direction, let us know! We can work through it together, and help to guide whatever it is you’re creating. Just email sisofrida@gmail.com
* Sisters of Frida is an inclusive safe space for all self-identifying and non-binary disabled women. We do not tolerate sexism, homophobia, racism, transphobia or other forms of discrimination based on sexuality, age, gender expression, religion, education or socio-economic status.
Jennifer Brough is the curator of this set of stories/blog.
Jennifer is a writer and editor who lives with fibromyalgia and endometriosis. She is involved in projects at the Feminist Library and seeks to amplify the voices and experiences of self-identifying women.
She is learning Spanish and dreaming of visiting Frida’s house in Mexico, so is very happy to be part of the Sisters of Frida community.
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