TL;DR: Writing Badly is a new journal of letters on the subject of transmisogyny and transfeminism.

It’s by and for trans women

A waterfall Alasdairaph CC BY 3.0

A waterfall Alasdairaph CC BY 3.0

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It’s by and for trans women.

Because:

  • We bite our tongue.

  • If we don’t we get abuse.

  • You don’t know what you’re not talking about until you’re talking about it. 

  • Transfeminist texts don’t as often get homes, posterity, or the chance for interlocution.

  • It’s important to me that there be space where a transfeminine subjectivity is valued in its own right. 

Seeking:

  • Submissions - paid

  • Stockists

  • Readers

Expect: 

  • Paper distribution 

  • Accessible versions

  • Thoughtful writing

  • Subjects relevant to our lives

  • Subjects covered in the invitation to submit

  • And other subjects

  • Candid women

  • Earnest discussion

  • Discussion on transfeminist work in the community

  • Reviews

  • Bits and bobs useful to us

  • Comfortable typesetting

  • Dirt cheap printing (cheaper than that)

Don’t expect

  • Good paperstock 

  • Strict or stiff styles or editing

  • Colour images

Details:

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