The Arctic Institute is searching for Contributors!
Queerness and Indigenous Arctic identities have often been subjected to narratives which place them into dichotomous categories under different pretexts, such as traditionality vs. modernity, global vs. local, or urban vs rural. All too often, those dualities have proven to not only be fallacious, but they also restrain researchers, activists, and communities alike from gaining holistic and detailed insights into arctic queerness, and eventually, driving change. Adding “2S” (Two Spirit) to the LGBT2SQ+-umbrella is just one example of how precolonial Indigenous concepts of gender and identity have gained popularity in recent years, and how queer people are taking matters in their own hands yet again. To research and highlight queer arctic realities, The Arctic Institute is proud to announce its first-ever series about queerness in the far North, called “Queering the Arctic”. In this series, we will ask: How are queer people in the Arctic challenging well-established systems of heteronormativity? To what extent are they suffering from societal, cultural or structural shortcomings and how are they using their resources to overcome them? With these pointed questions, we want to challenge deficiency-oriented, ethnocentric and neoliberal approaches and invite authors to create a space to identify “Hope Spots” from Indigenous and queer feminist perspectives, may it be artistic, academic, analytical or narrative.
We welcome contributors from any discipline or education level. Contributors can submit a commentary (a 700–800-word short opinion or analysis piece), an article (a 1,000-3,000-word analysis), or a multimedia contribution (we have published videos, audio, infographics, and poetry) focusing on queer realities in the Arctic. For examples of past series contributions, see The Arctic Institute’s 2020 China Series or our most recent 2022 Colonialism Series.
If you are interested in contributing, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, as well as a short paragraph about yourself to the series editor, Michel de Wall (michel.dewall@thearcticinstitute.org), Jeevan Toor (jeevan.toor@thercticinstitute.org) and TAI’s editor-in-chief Alina Bykova (alina.bykova@thearcticinstitute.org) by July 1, 2023.
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