Deadline: Friday 13th March 2026 at 5pm

Lip Service is a quarterly publication by the Vagina Museum in the style of old school community magazines. In this A5 zine, the content ranges from expanded exhibition content and other longform commentary and cultural critique, to horoscopes and letters. The hope is that it serves as a forum for community engagement and knowledge exchange.

As a creative, promotional and educational outlet, Lip Service also serves as another channel by which the Vagina Museum might share our work with the public. Our work being:

1. Spreading knowledge and raising awareness of the gynaecological anatomy and health

2. Giving confidence to people to talk about issues surrounding the gynaecological anatomy 

3. Erasing the stigma around the body and gynaecological anatomy

4. Acting as a forum for feminism, women’s rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community

5. Challenging heteronormative and cisnormative behaviour

6. Promoting intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values

We are accepting submissions for Letters, Commentary, Fiction, as well as questions for Ms Fallopia.

Commentary, fiction, visual and question submissions should respond to, engage with, or in some sense tackle the theme of sex work & decriminalisation. Sex work is a political term that was first coined by activist Carol Leigh in 1978 to acknowledge and validate sexual labour as work. In the UK and around the world, sex work is subject to extensive debate, scrutiny and prejudice in mainstream media, politics and policy. Yet, sex workers are often excluded from these conversations, which relate to feminism, legality, safety, and rights. Continuous legal and social barriers to sex workers’ safety significantly impact how individuals encounter, navigate and experience their work. As such, there is a growing call for the full decriminalisation of sex work. Meaning the removal of all criminal penalties from the buying and selling of sex, positioning sex work as legally equal to other types of work and giving sex workers the same employment rights as workers in other industries.

Insofar as the term sex work encompasses, but is not limited to, stripping, phone sex, camming, pornography, and full service work, this issue welcomes contributors to respond to the topic in whatever way resonates with them. We invite the community to reflect on this Issue’s theme – whether that be personal, scholarly or creative – as well as engage with the social-political landscape of sex work, either historically or in the present day. The zine is a collaborative, mixed media project so we encourage not only written submissions, but visuals too.

For a full description of the sections see here.

For full editorial guidelines see here.

For submission guidelines, please see below.