Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2007

We invite creative submissions from a global cross-section of writers to help raise awareness for sexual assault awareness month this April for publication in our forthcoming #17 2007 issue of Empowerment4Women (www.e4w.org), published by Managing Editor Carly Hope Finseth.

Writers of resistance use language in a discursive space not only to bear witness to violence against women - a descriptive response - but to <i>resist</i> this violence. Resistance happens by deploying discourse to challenge or subvert common cultural narratives about violence and may also make visible alternative narratives. The writer may also directly critique dominant cultural narratives on sexual violence against women.

Possible Topics: (this is not an exhaustive list)

- speak to rape culture
- raise awareness on sexual assault
- offer of an alternative narrative
- break silence
- critique dominant cultural narratives
- help empower victims and educate others
- naming or self-naming
- strategic anger
- revising justice
- others…

All submissions must seek to resist rape culture or seek to raise awareness on sexual assault. Short fiction and non-fiction should not exceed 6000 words. Send 3-5 poems. Submissions should be sent to: Laura Madeline Wiseman, Expression Editor,
expression [at] empowerment4women [dot] org.

Essays, Interviews, Art and other submissions, see submission guidelines at www.empowerment4women.org/submissions.php.

DEADLINE: February 1, 2007


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Empowerment4Women is a free online magazine dedicated to bringing the basic tenets of feminism to women and men of all ages and backgrounds.

We are here to argue with the societal norm, which depicts those who value feminist ideals as anarchistic, angry and radical. Empowered women are sometimes angry, sometimes radical and, even, sometimes anarchistic. But empowered women also know that feminism can be as big as a globally-choreographed movement or as small as the individual realization that something simply isn't … quite right.

Empowerment4Women's mission is to present feminist-hearted material without the shock factor. Rather, we present that which is reality, and then let our readership sit back and develop their own conclusions. After all, an empowered woman is, above all things, a woman who knows how to think for herself.

We are not a revolution, but we dream that each and every one of our readers will create his or her own. Because empowered individuals learn to create their own destinies—and then invite others to join in.

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