Submit & Subscribe
Medusa Rising accepts work in any genre on any feminist topic and in translation into English. We accept work by women from the personal to the political, from the most factual to the most imaginative.
Free — Corra — memberships include two essays a month (one Soul Craft and one by Esmée or by a contributor), updates on our free podcast and YouTube channel, & access to our Discord server, with ticketed invitations to quarterly events like the reading circle or another course or meeting.h
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Paid Subscriptions Work Like:
YACUMAMA - $2/mo or $20/yr
Includes the Corra level perks
+ Free access to quarterly events, currently our reading circle
+ Access to archive (nearly all posts go behind a paywall after two months)
PYTHIA - $8/mo or $80/yr
Include the Corra and Yacumama level perks
+ An essay or other submission from our readers, when available
+ Bonus Essay by Esmée - one or two per month
+ Bonus SOUL CRAFT essay
+ Personal Transformation Tool (meditation, journal prompt, spiritual re-orientation activity each month)
+ Free invitations to monthly and quarterly events (Soul Craft group, reading circle, and more programming on the way!)
TIAMAT - $20/mo or $200/yr
Includes all the content, the server access, and events/discusions
+ 2 one-hour sessions with Jaclyn about whatever (patriarchal) 'ish is getting between you loving yourself and standing in your own alignment (email us at info@medusarising.org to access this perk)
+ Annual Hardcover Anthology
+ Assures Medsua Rising lasts long enough to build the matriarchy
On our socials you will find several posts each week focused on the RadMatFem worldview and world building, one post promoting our content, one for re-posting great work from allies in collation, and one promoting upcoming live events.
First Month Always Free | So even if you give us money, you get a month to be sure you want to.
To Submit
Medusa Rising accepts new and published work by women in any genre on any feminist topic and in translation into English.
Your blog, substack, youtube, &c are welcome here. Share a link for consideration. Your new work is also welcome here.
Note: we can no longer pay contributors. Maybe one day, but not for now.
Our call is open all year; we read all year; we usually respond a week or so, and you are welcome to email us if you don't hear from us in that time 😄
Genres & Styles, Moods & Tones
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, science and tech, economics and money, 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.
Medusa Rising has set out several themes so far. We still welcome thought and imagination on:
- the globl fascist far right (with a focus on the US :/ ), we seeks work from other countries in or falling under these regimes, AND that have thrown them off (Hungary, Colombia, ...)
- Support girls and teens girls in this ultra-preadorty time
- Matriarchy past, present, future
- Feminist tensions over geopolitics & the nature of strategic intersectionality
- Goddess culture, goddesses, past and present of feminist spirituality
Time to shift gears!
Current Focus
- Women & Fascism, resisters & collaborators, past & present
- What if the Democrats win in 2026 in the US? What do you want to push for?
- Socialization, epigenetics, and genetics and temprament
- Relational Psychology, process relation, relational ontology
- RadFem, Matriarchal feminists, and RadMatFem organizing against fascists (hyperlocal, national, geo-regionally, globally)
- Best practices for alternative communities
- What are you leaving behind now?
- How are you turning differences into assets for feminist movement?
- Lesbian resistance past & present
- Myths and misrepresentations about feminism
- Tech against women, misogynist algorithms
- Tech women are leveraging for feminist causes
- 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 thought about parallel economy and production
- Skill-shares, mutual aid networks, resource pooling
- Feminist joy, successes, wins, celebration
- Parasociality and movements, weaving or rending, or both?
- Body as resource: pornography, prosititution, surrogacy, alternatives to serving men's interests to survive
- Practices of Power-With
- 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!
Now let's bring in other threads of a radical materialist/radical matriarchal feminism: our physical world, our sciences for understanding it, the social and genetic elements of human traits and behaviors, how to interact with our biology wisely, how to change money and work so that it supoorts life rather than wealth, socialization and epigenetics, porn and parasocial male bonding, what makes better men better, the planet's limits and how to live regeneratively in a globalized world, ... The kickables in the both/and of both material and cultural, both rational and spiritual, both relational and unique...
Style Note
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.
Print & Media We Accept
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.
Commission & Copyright
We are currently unable to offer commissions.
If you are a member of our website or Substack, then we publish 'reprints' when we find them compelling. Your blog, your 'stack, your site, a piece from there can also be shared here. We want to amplify women's brilliance.
If you are out there in the feminist public, we ask that you send us original, unpublished work. Copyright reverts to the creator the day of publication. We just ask that you credit Medusa Rising as the piece moves on in the world.
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!!!!
