Submissions Closed: Gay Asexuality and Gay Aromanticism
theme
AZE’s next upcoming journal issue is on the themes Gay Asexuality and Gay Aromanticism. This issue is open to receiving submissions from people who may identify or gravitate toward being both gay and asexual and/or gay and aromantic. It was created to provide a space for gay aces and/or gay aros to express themselves while addressing the themes of gay asexuality and/or gay aromanticism.
This issue is also being created to counter the dominant social assumptions that asexuality/aromanticism and gayness are mutually exclusive experiences - an idea that erases gay asexuality/aromanticism and problematizes people who are both gay and asexual/aromantic. Through centering on gay asexuality/aromanticism, this issue addresses the many ways in which they overlap.
The following questions are listed here to encourage possible approaches to the theme:
How do you understand your gayness as an asexual/aromantic or ace/aro person?
How do you understand your asexuality/aromanticism as a gay person?
Are there expectations placed upon you as someone who is both gay and asexual/aromantic or ace/aro?
How would you describe or represent your gay asexuality/aromanticism in written or visual form?
tags: gay aromantic experiences, gay aromantic identity, gay asexual experiences, gay asexual identity, gay aroace identity, being both gay and asexual, being both gay and aro, as a gay asexual, as a gay aromantic, being both gay and ace, being both gay and aro
what to submit:
AZE accepts poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, personal essays, academic essays, abstract written pieces, and any other form of writing. AZE also accepts photography, recorded videos, music, speeches, recited poetry, sketches, drawings, paintings, comics, abstract artistic work, and any other forms of visual and/or recorded media or creative expression.
Submissions can be under a pseudonym. Submissions can be in languages other than English.
format
If you are submitting written work, your submission should be in Microsoft Word format if possible.
If you are submitting images, your submission should be in .jpeg/.jpg, .png, .gif, or any widely-used image format.
If you are submitting music or video, your submission should be in any widely-used audio or video format.
For all non-written submissions, please include a short (100-250 words) description of your piece in 1st person. Example: "I created this piece because..." "This piece represents...." etc.
publication
All submissions are subject to an editing process. Authors always have the final say as to how their submission will appear on AZE.
There is no payment for publication.
If accepted, you agree to allow your submission to be published online and to be promoted on any social media of AZE. Your social media handle may be included when your submission is promoted on social media (if included with your submission).
After publication authors will retain all rights to their work.
when to submit:
By February 15th, 2023
where to submit:
Direct submissions to AZE journal’s Google Form.
