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Deliberately Queer Journal

Call for Manuscripts

The 2024 Submission Period is open.

Deliberately Queer Journal will be accepting submissions until May 28, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. local time.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any other published form. Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages (double-spaced) or 7,000 words (including notes and references) and can be prepared following MLA, APA, or Chicago style. All submissions should include an abstract of no more than 150 words and have a detached cover page listing the author/s’ name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Authors should remove all identifying references from the manuscript. To be hosted on the Deliberately Queer Journal website, media files should not exceed 220 MB in size. Authors must hold rights to any content published in Deliberately Queer Journal, and permission must be granted and documented from all participants in any performance or presentation.

Special Call: Deliberately Queer(ing)

In addition to general submissions from any field or discipline, the editor encourages the submission of scholarship that engages with queer, queer theory, and queering deliberately and intentionally. On their own, each of these terms is contested. Queer has been used in a variety of ways including the reclaimed derogatory (Callis, 2009), as an umbrella term for LGBTQIA+ (Carr et al., 2017), as a protest to fixed identities (Henderson, 2001), as a verb for questioning so-called norms and categories (Lovaas, 2003), to understand the self (Britzman, 1997) and numerous others. It has been argued that the power of the term queer stems from its complexity and inability to be defined absolutely (Halperin, 2003). Queer research is found throughout activism and academia as are the academics and practitioners continuing queer labor. The inaugural issue of Deliberately Queer is seeking research from graduate students whose labor advances the expansive collection of queer theory.

As you are preparing your manuscript, consider the following guiding questions: What does queer theory look like in your field? In what ways is queer theory still necessary? How might queer theory (re)shape your discipline? What does queer theory look like in practice? How do we connect queer theory to practice with an attention to materiality and lived experience? What does it mean or look like to queer in your discipline? What does queerness look like in the everyday? How can we answer the call to queer deliberately?

The editor welcomes submissions from a variety of qualitative or quantitative methodologies and mixed-methodological approaches, including critical/cultural analysis, web-based and new media research, autoethnography, poetic and arts-based inquiry, performance scripts, as well as other methods. Authors should identify in their cover letter whether their submissions address the special call. All submissions, including those for the special call, should follow regular submission guidelines. All authors must be graduate students at the time of submission.

To submit a manuscript, please visit opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dqj.

For additional information and questions, contact the editors-in-chief at deliberatelyqueer@gmail.com.

References:
Britzman, D. (1997). What is this thing called love?: New discourses for understanding gay and lesbian youth. In S. de Castell & M. Bryson (Eds.), Radical in(ter)ventions: Identity, politics, and difference/s on educational praxis (pp. 183-207). State University of New York Press.
Callis, A. (2009). Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and queer theory. Journal of Bisexuality, 9 (3-4), 213-233, doi:10.1080/15299710903316513
Carr, B.B., Hagai, E.B., & Zurbriggen, E.L. (2017). Queering Bem: Theoretical intersections between Sandra Bem’s scholarship and queer theory. Sex Roles, 76, 655-688. doi:10.1007/s11199-015-0546-1
Lovaas, K. (2003). Speaking to silence: Toward queering nonverbal communication. Journal of Homosexuality, 45 (2-4), 87-107. doi:10.1300/J082v45n02_04
Halperin, D.M. (2003). The normalization of queer theory. Journal of Homosexuality, 45 (2-4), 339-343. doi:10.1300/J082v45n02_17

To submit a manuscript, please visit opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dqj

Inquires should be emailed to deliberatelyqueer@gmail.com

Preparing Submission Materials

To submit your manuscript through OpenSIUC, click on “Submit manuscript” in the left sidebar. You will want to have the following materials ready:

  • Contact information for you (and co-authors, if applicable)
  • Article title
  • Shortened article title (for running head)
  • Key words
  • Abstract (150-word maximum)
  • Cover page footnote (could include a short description of your institutional affiliation, any acknowledgments to individuals who contributed to the article, and anywhere the article was presented prior to publication)
  • Full text of submission (manuscript in Word Doc or RTF format which not does exceed 25 double-spaced pages or 7,000 words and does not include any identifying information about the author)

Publication

Authors are completely responsible for the factual accuracy of their contributions and neither the Editorial Board of Deliberately Queer Journal nor Southern Illinois University Carbondale accepts any responsibility for the assertions and opinions of contributors. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to quote lengthy excerpts from previously published articles.

Please e-mail deliberatelyqueer@gmail.com for inquiries.