{"id":866,"date":"2010-03-29T22:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T03:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:19:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T03:19:33","slug":"call-for-submissions-21st-century-kings-an-introduction-to-a-new-brown-skinned-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Call For Submissions: 21st Century Kings&#8211;An Introduction to A New Brown-skinned Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All FTM Peoples of African Decent<br \/>\nLAST CALL for SUBMISSION<br \/>\nNew DEADLINE: open until Midnight, April 30, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Volume I<br \/>\n21st Century Kings: An Introduction to A New Brown-skinned Masculinity<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve extended and expanded our call and the call date. We are now getting requests and submissions from the African continent and have no choice but to change the call to include all Brown-skinned\/Black \u2013 Male, ThirdGender, TransMen, FtM, Boi, Daddy, Tranny, Tranny Fag, Butch, G3 (gee cued \u2013gender gifted guy,) \u2019masculine\/masculinized\u2019 women (butches, studs, aggressives, ballers, playas\u2026.,) Drag Kings, male illusionists, Transgenders, Transsexuals, gender-queers, stealth, boys like us and the likes** from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Please submit your stories, poems and art work. Please also refer to all of the more detailed information below.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Thank you to all of you who have submitted. We appreciate your patience. Some of you have asked if you can submit more than one item. Yes you can. And as stated below, it\u2019s your property until we confirm you for the book. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Below is a copy of the original call. Please send us your submissions today \u2013 new and previously published are welcome. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>All FTM Peoples of African Decent<br \/>\nLAST CALL for SUBMISSION<br \/>\nNew DEADLINE: open until Midnight, April 30, 2010<br \/>\nVolume I:<br \/>\n21st Century Kings: An Introduction to A New Brown-skinned Masculinity<\/p>\n<p>3 Kings are three Brown-skinned\/Black \u2013 Male, ThirdGender and\/or Masculine identified Trans persons who seek to give voice and page to the array of persons of color* who may have been born female and now live all or a significant portion of their lives as TransMen, FtM, Boi, Daddy, Tranny, Tranny Fag, Butch, G3 (gee cued \u2013gender gifted guy,) \u2019masculine\/masculinized\u2019 women (butches, studs, aggressives, ballers, playas\u2026.,) Drag Kings, male illusionists, Transgenders, Transsexuals, gender-queers, stealth, boys like us and the likes**.<\/p>\n<p>When considering works written over the past 25 years, there are a plethora of books addressing the \u2018social construction of masculinity.\u2019 About 90 books deal specifically with TransGendered identities. To my knowledge only four of the 90, specifically offer more than an obligatory glimpse of what is repeatedly understood as the \u2018illusive FtM of color.\u2019 Where are the voices, opinions, insight of all the black, brown, red and yellow \u2019masculine\/masculinized\u2019 women, FTMs and others?<\/p>\n<p>Ours are the voices missing from the page and the voices the next generation needs!<\/p>\n<p>For volume One we are requesting your unpublished stories, photographs, poems, essays, drawings. At this time and for this volume, we are specifically seeking submissions from the African Diaspora who identify as and\/or live all or a significant portion of their lives as FtM, Transmen, TransGender, Fag, Boi, Tranny, Tranny Fag G3 (gee cubed \u2013gender gifted guy,) Transsexuals, Stealth, boys like us, Trans-identified Butches and the likes.<\/p>\n<p>All submissions, commentary and visual works will be fully considered. Each submission will receive a receipt of delivery via email. We are also seeking\/accepting photos, sketches, drawings, digital imagery, cartoons and did we say poetry?!<\/p>\n<p>Word Count\/Page Limits:<br \/>\n&#8211; Personal Narratives: Up to 15 pages\/5000 words Double Spaced<br \/>\n&#8211; Fiction: Up to 15 pages\/3750 words \u2013 Double Spaced<br \/>\n&#8211; Critical Essays and Cultural Critiques: Up to 15 pages (including bibliography) 3750 words \u2013 Double Spaced<br \/>\n&#8211; Poetry\/Rhymes: No more than 3 pages per poem\/rhyme and 3 poems per poet\/mc \u2013 Double Spaced<br \/>\n&#8211; Graphic Stories: No more than three pages per submission (number of panels up to you). Up to three pieces\/stories per artist.<br \/>\n&#8211; Photographs\/Paintings\/Collage\/Drawings: 3-5, scanned as B\/W only. (No Originals, we are not returning ANYTHING).<\/p>\n<p>New writers welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Please copy and paste your text into your email. Please send images in jpeg format or paste into document. Mail to: <a href=\"mailto:3kingsanthology@gmail.com\">3kingsanthology@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is our CURRENT FOCUS of WORKS being requested:<br \/>\n1. As Men: African American TransMen on their life, experience, and journey to \u2018man\u2019.<br \/>\n\u00a8 Tell us your story. We want anything you want to share about your transition<br \/>\n2. Third Sex\/Recognize Me For Me: Passing African American butches and non-transitioned\/No Ho transgender folks on their life, experience and journey to be a true expression of themselves.<br \/>\n\u00a8 Here we imagine receiving work from African American Male\/Masculine identified folks who are not currently on hormones.<br \/>\n3. In Spirit We Trust (?): TransMen and Spirituality<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ideas that may help spur your writing\u2026<br \/>\n* Self\/personal journey: Who supports you? Are you coupled? How do you see yourself? What kind of challenges \/ issues do you have to deal with being you? Do you see yourself as gay, straight, bi or\u2026? Are you okay with being referred to as a Tranny? Trans? Transexual? Are you stealth? Who are your friends? Are you a parent? Co-parent? Adoptive parent? Foster parent? Guardian? A Primary Provider for someone younger than 18?<br \/>\n* On the job: Did you transition at work? What was that experience like? Did you keep your job? Do you feel safe?<br \/>\n* Your Spiritual Life: Is spirituality important to you? Has your relationship to spirituality, religion or your spiritual or religious community change after you began taking T?<br \/>\n* Have you transitioned? How so, in what ways? Are there differences in life as a woman of color to life as you live it now?<br \/>\n* What about relationships with your family, children, \u201cmales\u201d in your life, friends, intimate ones, girlfriends, tricks, neighbors and random human contact?<br \/>\n* Health \/ wellness: Do you have safe places to go?<\/p>\n<p>********************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Contact: 3kingsanthology AT gmail Dot com<\/p>\n<p>Copy Rights: We will retain copy rights until publication. You have full rights after publication.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that we respect your privacy, while we prefer you use a pseudonym, we will be accepting a limited number of anonymous works.<br \/>\n*We are aware this term may be offensive to some\u2026if it offends you we apologize. Our goal is to be All Inclusive<\/p>\n<p>**There are as many terms as there are communities. Please contact us if you feel you fit in this group even if you don\u2019t identify with the terms.<\/p>\n<p>( Scheduled for 2011 -Volume II: TransMen of  The Americas: Native American, Latin, Chicano and more\u2026  Volume III For our Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islanders and more\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All FTM Peoples of African Decent LAST CALL for SUBMISSION New DEADLINE: open until Midnight, April 30, 2010 Volume I 21st Century Kings: An Introduction to A New Brown-skinned Masculinity We\u2019ve extended and expanded our call and the call date. 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