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We're mostly – but not only – looking for shorter work, as heavy on the moxy/attitude/rizz as on the thought/knowledge/imagination.

Celebration, rage, pleasure, dreaming, burning down, tenderness, grief, your strength and your growing, your clarity and your mess are all welcome here.

Thought, critique, poetry, fiction, reporting, reviews of all cutlural production, speculations, futures, soulcraft, healing, history – about and around all the harms patriarchy does to women and all the feminist resistance women are giving our lives to.

We invite you to share work in any genre. We welcome works that combine or brushes the edges of any of genres and themes. Shout what needs shouting!

We accept pseudonyms to protect women's lives and livelihoods.

We suggest listening to our manifesto to get a sense of the perspective we bring to feminist movement and creativity.

Current Focus

• Women & Fascism, resisters & collaborators, past & present
• RadFem, Matriarchal feminists, and RadMatFem organizing against fascists (hyperlocal, national, geo-regionally, globally)
• Best practices for alternative communities
• Lesbian resistance past & present
• Myths and misrepresentations about feminism
• Tech against women, misogynist algorithms
• Tips for Newbies: how to search for feminist friendly activist groups
• Metapatterning, getting off men's grids, counter-power
• Matriarchal/gift economics, feminist alt currency, feminist though about economy and production
• Skill-shares, mutual aid networks, resource pooling
• Feminist joy, successes, wins, celebration
• Body as resource: pornography, prosititution, surrogacy, alternatives to serving men's interests to survive
• Matriarchal imagination
• What do you want feminists of other factions/ethnicities/countries to know or do?
• Women's culture, women's time, women's space
• Pick some part of the Manifesto RadMatFem, imagine what it could look like in action. All speculations welcome!

Don't see your thing? Want to share something else, from another direction, in another mood, about another topic, wider aperture, sharper vector? Cool. Here's an even bigger list of the deep fields we want to dance in!

Audience: Please assume our readers have some background in feminist thought or activism, but are not experts. Imagine your readers will want to put your words into action in some way.

Tone: We prefer a casual, clever, and human voice. That combination of rigor and friendliness is the sweetspot. Jokes, puns, sarcasm, unvarnished truths, rage, and well-polished cursing are all welcome.

Purpose: We really like solutions, proposals, imagination, thriving, plans, luck, theory, successes, models that can be adapted. But, some problems are sticky and wicked and just have to be examined that way.

We accept work by female people in these genres or in combinations of genres:

Visual Artworks, up to 5 pieces in high resolution (still and video)

Essay, Memoire, Creative Non-Fiction

Flash fiction, Microfiction, Music, and Poetry

Conversations, Reportage, shorter 'Think Pieces': includes history, reportage, analysis, critique, explorations. If your piece is a conversation, we welcome the participants biographies to be included at the end of the text.

Reviews of all cultural artefacts about or affecting women: film, music, books, podcasts, musicals, music videos, trends on social media, &c. We prefer balanced reviews, but we know that's not always possible.

Recommendations, super-short positive reviews of culture, books, websites, feminist organizations, up to 100 words – collected and published quarterly.

Long reads and deep dives of any length.

• Non-fiction prose
• • ~ 750 words - $20 max
  • ~ 1200 words - $40 max
  • ~ 3000 words - $100 max
  • ~ 6000 words - $200 max
• Creative work
• • Micro/flash fiction - $15
  • Poetry - $15
  • Creative/experimental essay or memoire, strongly prefered limit 1200 words, maximum 3000 words - $1o0 max
• Visual Artwork - $30 each piece

All rates in US dollars.

Expectations

Your subscriptions of $2 or $8 per month to Medusa Rising enable our support for feminist artists and writers. We give away a lot of content for free to support access for as many women as possible, so you can see that subscriptions are vital way to share this resource in solidarity.

A bit of expectation setting: We publish a maximum of 8 content posts per month. If we are publishing a series, that could run between 2-6 posts. We have a limited capacity for close editing as we are tiny staff. As our capacity increases, our pace of publication can increase as well. But we know there's cartloads of great feminist work going on. We do not want to overwhelm!

A few other feminist venues we admire (and there are many) are The Anti-Misogyny Club, Feminist Dissent, Total Woman Victory, She's Right You Know Substack, Restoration Magazine, Female.Liberation, Womens eNews, Brown Sugar, Women's Liberation Radio News (WLRN), Lilith Magazine, Matriarchy Times, Rewire, The Crunk Feminist Collective, Hawwa, Mistral, ... we could go on. Look in your regions, your languages, the venues and communities are there. We are not the only game in town, and we want your words to get in the world. Not all of these journals align closely with a RadMatFem framework, but connection beats isolation every time!

To you most courageous imagination!!!!