1. We have changed the email address for the journal; you can now reach us at subversivehuman@email.com
2. There are 9 days left to submit for the September's contest. The website is https://sites.google.com/site/thesubversivehuman/
3. The prize is 1st place prize is $25 but we hope to add money for the 2nd and 3rd place prizes in October. Currently, the 2nd place prize is submission to the next month's contest, at no cost.
Good luck to everyone who has entered for September!
The "Subversive Human" website is LIVE. Right Now. Today. Yup yup yup. Me and Sassy duone it.
Hello Friends & Family,
1. The submission deadline for The Subversive Journal's August contest draws close. Sharon and I have our favorites...lol, BUT we would welcome some more submissions. Remember, there is some prize money involved. Visit us at http://thesubversivehuman.blogspot.com/
2. I am back at work but waiting for my disability claim to be adjudicated.
3. The Bionic Bong is publishing three of my haikus, the ones in my series, "Haikus for a Post Human". I don't post my poetry on Multiply because of their TOS yada yada.
4. The Blue Jew New Yorker is publishing my poem, "Red Bras and Bad Girls".
5. My Poem "Island Bays" has been short-listed for the Frederick van Eeden contest at Holland Press. Final judging is in September. Woo Hoo
Visit The Subversive Human, an Online Journal at http://thesubversivehuman.blogspot.com/ for specific submission guidelines.
Well, well, well...the prodigal daughter returnes.
1. I have been ill and the witch-doctors are mumbling about dialysis for my failing kidneys.
2. I filed for disability but am still working until it is eith approved or denied.
3. I started my own on-line journal, The Subversive Human...for some reason. Multi[ly won't let me post the link. Oh Well, here it is: http://thesubversivehuman.blogspot.com/
The theme for August is "when walls fall". The deadline is August 15, 2010. The prize is $25.
Are you a wall breaker? Do you respect boundaries or does a wall kindle the urge to tear it down?
1. Pay Paypal a fee of $1.00 per poem to subversivehuman@gmail.com
2. Submit poetry to subverwivehuman@gmail.com the Paypal receipt
number and word "Submissiom" in the subject line.
3. COPY and PASTE the poem(s) in the body of the email.
4. Include a bio (no more than 100 words), your name, address,
phone# and email. An accompanying picture is allowed.
5. Previous and simultaneous submissions are allowed but please
indicate if you own copyright and where the poem was previously
published. If accepted for publication elsewhere, notify us as
soon as possible.
6. Must be 18 and older.
7. Poems must be submitted in English.
We will notify the winner by August 28, 2010 and post the winning poem. the following month. Good luck!
I am hoping that I get as big enough response that I can have a 2nd and 3rd place winnner.
After-all, a girl has to have sumthing to dfo whilst she is laid up in bed. Be kind and pass this blog post along...it would be nice to get this going...
I'll be blogging next weekend...My head kinda exploded this weekend...lol...so I was abed instead of watching fireworks....sigh
Three times a year, Jerry Jazz Musician awards a writer who submits, in our opinion, the best original, previously unpublished work of approximately one - five thousand words. The winner will be announced via a special mailing of our Jerry Jazz Musician newsletter. Publishers, artists, musicians and interested readers are among those who subscribe to the newsletter. Additionally, the work will be published on the home page of Jerry Jazz Musician and featured there for at least four weeks.
The Jerry Jazz Musician reader has interests in music, social history, literature, politics, art, film and theatre, particularly that of the counter-culture of mid-twentieth century America. Your writing should appeal to a reader with these characteristics.
Contest details
A prize of $100 will be awarded for the winning story. In addition to the story being published on Jerry Jazz Musician, the author's acceptance of the prize money gives Jerry Jazz Musician the right to include the story in an anthology that will appear in book or magazine form. No entry fee is required. One story entry only.
Submission deadline for the next contest is May 31, 2010. Publishing date will be July 1, 2010.
Please submit your story by May 31, 2010 via Word or Adobe attachment to jm@jerryjazz.com. Please be sure to include your name, address and phone number with your submission. Please include "Short Fiction Contest Submission" in the subject heading of the email.
All month, I have been watching the commercials about the upcoming Black History Month. This morning I turned on the TV and decided to watch Mr & Mrs Loving, a movie about a couple struggling to live as a married couple during the 1960s. As I laid there, I was struck by a sudden insight.
And despite 40 years of civil rights, TV and that includes this channel, we are still viewed as being outside the mainstream. If we are lucky, sometimes we have roles as side-kicks. Or prostitutes. Or recovering drug addicts. The fat mammy. The peppery chica. Or even the sultry Asian sex-pot. Occasionally, we have starring roles as the main character. Occasionally.
Despite the fact that people of color (which includes Asians and Hispanics) out-number whites, there are few movies showing us as just regular people, on TV. It takes a Hispanic month or a Black History month to see movies with us as just regular people, with no damn stereotyping. And LMN, which purports to be a "womens channel" shows few movies with women of color. LMN, predominantly offers movies with white women and their struggles, the rest of the year. That's 365 days of the year. I bet if one could have access to LMN's film library, the stats would show that they have a disproportionate number of diversity films, in relation to actual American demographics. Thus we women of color, get one, two months of the year. With a few movies. That's it folks. *clap clap clap* . I guess after 40 years, I should be grateful. But I'm not. I freaking pissed off.
And this is speculation on my parts, but I bet that LMN and the rest of their executives are applauding themselves and their liberalism. Guess what? I'll applaud you when you show a significant amount of movies that show-case women other than whites more than one month of the year, with 7 or 8 movies.
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