The WWS members included in this post published their work in amazing places during the month of November. I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb (if available) if the publication is a book, along with a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in November!
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The WWS members included in this post published their work in amazing places during the month of October. I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb (if available) if the publication is a book, along with a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in October!
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I spent September doing a residency at Ragdale in Illinois, where I was lucky to have a great cohort that included two wonderful WWS members, Lauren Eggert-Crowe and Siel Ju. Never have I been more grateful to enjoy such good company and to have such a big chunk of time to contemplate and to write.
Submitting, though, has escaped me, which makes me even more in awe of those of you who participated in WWS’s Submit 1 submission event on September 10th. Congratulations to all who participated and to those who have already heard from their publication venues of choice, whatever the response. Sending out our work into the world is an act of bravery deserving of recognition.
Meanwhile, the WWS members included in this post published their work in amazing places during the month of September. I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb (if available) if the publication is a book, along with a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in September!
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The last two months of summer have been filled with emergencies for me. So I’ve combined the July and August publication roundups. This way, I was able to fully focus on the wonderful accomplishments of the WWS members, who continue to persevere and publish in wonderful places.
I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb if the publication is a book, and a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
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June 2022 released even more chaos into the world. Roe v. Wade was officially overturned by SCOTUS, in a decision that eliminated a constitutional right for the first time in United States History, and the January 6th House Committee Hearings revealed information about the 2021 insurrection that even the most jaded found startling. Despite the ongoing mess that is 2022, our WWS members continue to persevere, sending out and publishing their amazing creative work in fantastic markets.
I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb if the publication is a book, and a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in June!
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May 2022 has been a month of devastating news, from the near-certain overturn of Roe v. Wade to the continued war in the Ukraine to the horrifying murder of children and teachers in Uvalde, Texas. Yet our WWS members continue to persevere, sending out and publishing their amazing creative work in fantastic markets; reminding us that creativity matters, that it uplifts us even during the most uncertain of times.
I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb if the publication is a book, and a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in May!
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by Noriko Nakada for the Women Who Submit Leadership Team
This week my ten-year-old had her annual physical. Her dad took her, but that afternoon, when she came home to tell me about it, she said, “I’ve never had a man before.” In her ten years, every pediatrician she’s known has been a woman or non-binary physician. She is growing up in a world where women can be and do so much: they are doctors, they run for president, they play professional sports. In my work in a public middle school, I see young people pushing back against sexist dress codes, and exhibiting so much freedom in what they want to do with their bodies and their lives, but the leak of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade cast a long, dark shadow across any of the improvements to women, non-binary, and transgender folks’ rights, reminding us that our bodily autonomy is under aggressive attack.
We have seen this coming in the election of a blatant misogynist, in the efforts at the state level to restrict abortion access, to silence stories through book and conversation bans, and in the appointment of conservative justices to the Supreme Court. We have watched this unfold slowly, like the shifts in our planet’s climate, but with this ruling, for the first time in many of our lives, abortion will no longer be protected in the United States.
Over the course of the pandemic, chapters and memberships have sprouted up across the nation and globe, and while some of us might reside in solidly blue states where access to safe and legal healthcare remains intact, but even there, care can become precarious as clinics shut down, or voting restrictions make it more likely that the conservative minority will come to power. We watched this over the years as in so many places the reasonable availability of abortions has eroded. And for those of us living in poverty, no matter where we reside, healthcare options are often financially out of reach.
Women Who Submit supports safe, legal, affordable abortion access for all and encourages members to support and lift one another up as we navigate these hostile waters. We see you and acknowledge the range of emotions this week’s news might have triggered. We urge you to take care of yourselves and those around you as you seek out opportunities to turn the tide. We acknowledge that the ways we all push back are diverse and unique. Maybe you are grieving silently, writing a story you have about your reproductive struggles or health, or having difficult conversations with loved ones about the significance of this ruling. However you are processing, we are here, we are creating, and we aren’t going anywhere.
If you have the wherewithal to push back financially, here are some funds and resources to pass along. Most are set up to help people in areas where access to abortion and healthcare is already limited and is likely to become more challenging in the coming months.
Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund
ARC Southeast supporting Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Tea Fund serving northern Texas
Whole Women’s Health Alliance with clinics in Austin, Minnesota, Charlottesville, and South Bend
Jane’s Due Process supporting Texas teens
Women’s Health Center of West Virginia
Kentucky Health Justice Network
Holler Health Justice serving Appalachia
Arkansas Abortion Support Network
National Network of Abortion Funds
Reproductive Legal Defense Fund
Keep Our Clinics
Although April 2022 has been a quiet publishing month for our WWS members, they still are consistently sending out their work and publishing in fantastic markets.
I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb if the publication is a book, and a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in April!
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March 2022 is ending here in Los Angeles with both rain and sunshine, which feels like a hopeful sign. Another hopeful sign: our WWS members are, as always, consistently sending out their work and publishing in fantastic markets.
I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available) or a blurb if the publication is a book, and a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in March!
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It’s Halloween, which signals October’s close, and our WWS members continue to send out their work and publish in amazing places.
This month we’re celebrating the WWS members whose work was published during October of 2021. I’ve included an excerpt from their published pieces (if available) or a blurb if the publication is a book, and a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in October!
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