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Submission Guidelines

Help engender a more equitable, just, and sustainable world

Thank you for your interest in contributing to engendered.

This publication extends the work we do for survivors, advocates and pro-feminist allies to engage in knowledge-sharing and knowledge building. We hope to use this platform to uplift survivor voices and stories. By cultivating a gendered power lens, we hope to provide readers with a toolkit for interrogating power, privilege, and oppression, and for building a cultural literacy around abuse and abuse of power so that we can better identify it, confront it, prevent it and heal from it.

As such, we seek pieces that are intersectional in nature — that span culture, history, politics, and make visible the interconnectedness of our lives and of the systems that contribute to upholding systemic power structures at the expense of liberation, autonomy, and collective thriving for ourselves and for our communities. Submissions that are fact and evidence-based, science and reason centered, and trauma-informed will be reviewed with thoughtful consideration.

Our goal is to help educate the public about coercive control, debunk myths about abuse and trauma, expose and hold accountable institutional sexism and misogyny and it economic, social, and environmental impacts on society, and offer ideas for how to make systems change. So articles on any of these topics are welcome.

If you’re interested in being a contributor, you’re probably already a reader and subscriber to our publication. Familiarize yourself with our style and tone which will help guide your choice of the content and characteristics of thought pieces we invite for submission. Please read through Medium’s Curation Guidelines for a general sense of what is acceptable and desirable and what is not.

To submit a piece for the first time, complete our brief submission form. Friend or draft links enable faster and more flexible review.

We cannot guarantee a reply for every submission, but if we do accept your piece, you will be added as a contributor and may receive a private note to inform you of our decision. You are confirmed contributor when you see Engendered appearing as an available publication for submission.

If you haven’t heard from us within 8 business days, and you haven’t been notified otherwise, please assume your piece was declined and feel free to submit to other publications. Once you are a verified contributor, you will not need to submit your piece via the Google form, but can do so directly within the article itself.

Submission Requirements

Engendered welcomes contributions that contribute to building a just, equitable, and sustainable world and planet. Perspectives that are not rooted in facts, science, reason, and thoughtful analysis will be rejected. If a subject matter or topic fuels conspiracy theories, is anti-science and rooted in bigotry, reinforcing implicit biases, hatred, it will be rejected. Content rooted in amplifying our worrying discourse of misinformation and seeking to use misinformation tactic will be rejected.

Each article must be of a minimum “3 minute read,” or approximately 650 words in length. It should contain a featured image that is at least 1000 pixels in width with clear credits for the photo in the caption area and a link to the source, if you are using Unsplash. Submissions without credits risk copyright infringement for images or other incorporated media and will likely be rejected.

Pieces must be written free from profanity, spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors.

No piece or contributor is exempt from Medium’s Rules and Terms of Service.

Contributors own the rights to the content they post and therefore, bear the burden and full legal responsibility to issues arising from violations of intellectual property, libel, plagiarism, and other legal disputes that may arise from their articles. If you decide to edit or remove an article once it’s been published on Engendered, please notify us.

Submission Logistics

All articles from existing contributors must be submitted through Medium. We welcome both drafts and published pieces for submission.

The following tags are strongly encouraged and will help editors assess the fit of a potential piece:

Power: [Sexism, Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, Ableism, Intersectionality, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Corruption, Privilege, Oppression, Violence, Coercive Control, Exploitation]

Trauma: [Trauma, Healing, Recovery, ACEs, Survivors, Children, Trauma-Informed, PTSD, Health, Mental Health, Family, Relationships, Self, Love]

Equality and Accountability: [Feminism, Equality, Justice, Accountability, Culture, Society, Future, Media, News]

Systems Transformation: [Society, Culture, Systems, Policy, Leadership, Governance, Transformation, Future, Technology, History, Education]

Engendered will never perform textual edits on submissions although our editorial team may make minor formatting adjustments.