Community Accountability Zine Wants Submissions
A group of folks from Minneapolis and Tucson are working to put together a zine on community accountability:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Who: Those who have worked with/been involved in community accountability processes and survivor support or general efforts to cultivate community response to sexual violence.
What: A zine compilation- stories, essays, interviews, artwork, thoughts reflecting on working around accountability and community response to sexual violence:
What does accountability look like? What could it look like? Who does it involve? In what ways? How is a community responsible? How is a community involved? What can an accountability process look like? What has it looked like? What works? What doesn’t? What were the fuck-ups, the successes?
**These questions are asked with the assumption that confidentiality will be respected and that stories will not be shared if they are not yours to share.
Why: To further give voice to our efforts and experiences in doing this work, to give space and voice to silence. To know and hear how we have survived in this work, how we have sustained this work, or why we burned out. To further document our attempts at figuring out what community accountability even is. To be able to reflect and grow from our mistakes and epiphanies.
Looking for submissions that:
- explore the importance of accountability and support work as an act of community building and collective liberation, that express the importance of this work within social justice movements.
-reflect on the support, empowerment, recovery and growth that have come out of this work
-reflect on the pain, trauma and frustration of this work or which is inherent in this work.
-develop ideas and methods of sustainability around this work
-look at the social and political contexts in which community accountability and response to sexual violence grows and exists.
-share our stories
Anonymity and confidentiality will be respected.
DEADLINE: September 18th, 2010
For info and submissions contact: responsezine@gmail.com
Feel free to send in ideas/proposals and ask for feedback!
