WAVAW Rape Crisis Center is seeking submissions of poetry, prose, and art for our upcoming zine ‘Recognition: Trans & Queer Writing on Sexual Harm’.

We are looking for diverse voices to talk about how consent does and doesn’t show up in our community: with partners, with friends, at sweaty dance parties, and more.
We’re particularly interested in pieces that speak to cycles of abuse, and how systemic violence can show up in spaces that are meant to be safe.
We’re also interested in pieces about how surviving sexual violence can intersect with being trans or queer.

We’ll be prioritizing submissions by trans people and people of colour, but all queer-identified artists are invited to submit. There is a $50 honorarium for selected artists, who will be published in the zine and invited to read or display their work at a launch event with award-winning poet Adele Barclay.

Some food for thought:

• What do accountability and justice look like in small communities, especially when we don’t trust the police?
• What are the taboos around talking about harm in sex-positive spaces?
• What happens when survivors of sexual violence go on to perpetrate it themselves?
• What has the antiviolence movement gotten wrong about our lives?
• How can queer sex be healing?

Send submissions and a short bio to felix@salalsvsc.ca by April 15, 2019.