Hi everyone,

I wanted to invite all of you to the below call for submission. Submissions do not have to be only on human trafficking/slavery, but can also be linked to issues of violences in the community.

take care,
-Annie-

 Call for Poetry Submissions & Art Submissions for Publication

"Speaking Truths: The Poetics of Defining Human Slavery"
Collaborative Initiative: Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery & Achiote Press
Deadline: October 20, 2007  

Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery (SAFEHS) is a non-profit whose mission is to end human slavery through art and education. Through collaborating with community artists, students, and survivors, we feel that human slavery can be abolished through imagining newer spaces of social justice and change (visit: www.safehs.com). We joined forces with Achiote Press because of their commitment to: ask what it means to bear witness, to use adaptations as resistance, to cross borders, to map ourselves onto a dislocated world, to speak in exile, and to suffer diasporic hunger (To learn more about previous submissions through Achiote Press, visit: www.achiotepress.com). Join us in the fight to end human slavery through submitting for our collaborative publication through Achiote Press on "Speaking Truths: The Poetics of Defining Human Slavery."

POSSIBLE THEMES
Submissions that engage with human slavery may do so with the following themes:
-Survivor perspectives
-The raced, sexed or gendered dynamics to human slavery
-Defining of human slavery/trafficking
-What does it mean to speak truths about human slavery?
-Where are spaces of revolution/change/abolition of human slavery imagined?
-Voicing how violence impacts community/individuals

GUIDELINES FOR POETRY & ART
Guidelines for Submission of Poems:
We invite submissions of poems, up to five poems per submission. Submit an poem(s), short bio and cover letter describing your interest in this initiative. Send all submissions by email to: [address removed]

Guidelines for Submission of Visual Art
We invite submissions of visual art to be placed either as the cover or as inserts in the anthology. Submit visual documentation in digital or hard copy, artist's statement, short bio and cover letter describing your interest in this initiative. Please do not send packages larger than 8.5 x 11 inches and include a self-addressed stamped envelope for return of materials if necessary. Digital submissions of art work must be no larger than 8.5X11 inches at 300dpi. 

Send Submissions to:

Please send all submissions by email to [address removed] or by regular mail to SAFEHS c/o Annie Fukushima, Department of Ethnic Studies, 506 Barrows Hall #2570, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA [masked]

Questions or inquiries may be sent to: [address removed]

For more information about SAFEHS: www.safehs.com
For more Information about Achiote Press: www.achiotepress.com

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Annie Fukushima
Doctoral Student -  Ethnic Studies
& Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, & Sexuality
University of California, Berkeley

Founder
Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery
www.safehs.com

Volunteer
Asian Women's Shelter

Programs Coordinator
Narika at Berkeley

International Board of Advisor
Chinese Adoptee Links, International

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