before & after
PUSH magazine wants your stories, paintings, cartoons, plays, photographs, essays, illustrations, or poems on the theme: before & after.
How has an event, moment, or political action rocked your world? How has a community, society, or nation been transformed by some event? Was your life revolutionized the first time you heard someone speak? Or read a particular book? Or took a class? How does a community change after a violent act occurs within that community? What was it like before, and how did it change after…?
PUSH, a magazine of queer feminist subversions, is an all volunteer, queer feminist collective located in Seattle, Washington. We have published nine topical print (free!) issues since 1999. Our topics have ranged from revolution to taboos. We publish essays, stories, poetry, interviews, visual art, book reviews, and regular columns. Our goal is to create a collaborative, queer, feminist publication that engages our Pacific Northwest community in an ongoing dialogue on issues of politics, activism, identity, and representation. With each issue, we attempt to choose a dynamic theme that inspires multiple voices to reflect, speak out, and keep talking to each other long after the issue has gone to print.
Submissions due by September 1, 2006. To find out where to submit pieces or to contact us with questions, go to www.pushmagazine.org.