Siren!, No. 1

In an era of media saturation, where news, information, art, and entertainment flow endlessly across screens and platforms, our capacity for meaningful interpersonal communication and vital social conversations is increasingly at risk. Within this vast ecosystem, dominant cultural narratives often drown out feminine, queer, Indigenous, diasporic, and other historically underrepresented and silenced communities, reinforcing entrenched patterns of exclusion. In response to these dynamics, we position this inaugural issue as an intervention. One that actively disrupts these silences and reclaims space for voices and knowledges pushed to the margins.

Siren! is now accepting submissions for its first issue, dedicated to resurfacing and amplifying submerged voices, epistemologies, and practices. As a transnational feminist platform, we aim to amplify these resonances through critical scholarship, artistic expressions, and acts of resistance that seek to envision alternative futures. This inaugural issue will set the tone for the journal, calling for contributions that navigate the allure and dangers of the media ecosystem, challenging its hegemonies, and charting new routes toward solidarity, care, and transformation.

We invite submissions that critically examine, celebrate, and creatively engage with acts of activism, resistance, collaboration, and cultural interventions. We welcome work from scholars, artists, and practitioners. We are seeking work that sparks conversations, challenges dominant narratives, and resonates with global audiences passionate about feminism, media, and cultural activism.

We welcome proposals on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Oral histories and/or experimental storytelling formats
  
• Archival practices and counter archives
• Memory work and reparative media
  
• Transnational solidarity networks and organizing
  
• Indigenous media practices and knowledge transmissions
  
• Diasporic narratives and cultural preservation
• Collaborative authorship and collective knowledge production
  
• Soundscapes, audio activism, and voice-centered practices
  
  

We particularly encourage submissions from early-career scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and independent intellectuals (including activists, artists, and public scholars) whose work engages with critical feminist discourses in communication, media, and related fields.

Submission can take many formats, be it written, multimedia (visual, AV, audio pieces), or hybrid (a blend of written text and other media), and should align with the magazine’s current issue theme and our commitment to transnational solidarity, feminist world-making, and transformative social change. Please indicate the format of your proposal submission in the body of the email.