Deadline: 26th September 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 reproductive justice. Reproductive justice is a broad term. For us, it encompasses three core tenets: the right to have children, the right not to have children, and the right to raise children in safety. From access to abortion to the ability to see ones children, into adulthood – safe from state violence and neglect. We’re interested in everything from personal experiences to academic reflections and professional insights.

Whether you’ve experienced reproductive injustice first hand or campaign for changes in the law – we want to hear about it. How is reproductive justice reproduced, or indeed undermined, in fiction? What does sociology have to say about it? How does it intersect with decoloniality or disability justice? We’re interested in it all.

For a full description of the sections see here.

For submission guidelines, please see below.