CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

‼️CALLING ALL SINNERS, SAINTS, BIMBOS, HIMBOS, PITS & PERVERTS‼️

No one will give us what we deserve. Rights are not given, they are taken, by force if necessary. It is easier to fight when you know who your enemy is.… AN ARMY OF LOVERS CANNOT LOSE

—Queer Nation, “Queers Read This,” June 1990

We want your poems, flash (and we do mean flash) fiction, recipes & art about reproductive justice, bodily autonomy, abortion & your mother for volume 2 of abobo zine <3

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guidelines:

• email abobozine@gmail.com with your submission

• deadline: july 15

• send up to 3 pieces for consideration

• flash fiction should be no more than 1,000 words

• visual art (photos, illustrations, collages, etc.) should be black & white, minimum 300 dpi

• we accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work has been accepted elsewhere

• unfortunately, we are not able to pay contributors at this time. Any money that we earn in excess of production costs will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds

*all languages welcome!

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here are some examples of pieces we love​

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poems​

• Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, After an Abortion by Diane di Prima

• Lost Baby Poem by Lucille Clifton

• The End by Sharon Olds

• Right To Life by Marge Piercy

• Pelican by Mahogany L. Browne 

• A Million Women Are Your Mother by Saniyya Saleh 

• Free And Safe Abortion by Ana Gabriela Rivera

stories​

• The Happening or Cleaned Out by Annie Ernaux

• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

• Don Quixote’s Abortion by Kathy Acker

• The Escombros Bug by Shy Watson

• An Avocado Is Going To Have An Abortion by Vi Khi Nao 

• Lizard by Ulrica Hume

• The Abortion by Alice Walker

• A Long, Long Time Ago in Late August by Rivka Galchen

recipes

• Abortion recipes by Adelitas & Mansa Ballena

• Recipes for Survival by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

• Ashtray cake by Sumer Sabooh

• Subversive jello molds by Lazy Mom (Phyllis Ma and Josie Keefe)