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The inaugural issue of E/X Journal is now open for submissions. 


We are looking for: Critical Essays, Personal Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Artwork and Radical Shit. Visual art, music, literature, architecture, performing arts - we want it all. 

For visual art features: please send to the.ex.journal@gmail.com with “Art Feature Submission: Your Name” as the subject. 

For written pieces: please send a PITCH no more than 300 words to the.ex.journal@gmail.com with “Submission: Your Name” as the subject line. Helpful pitches include a concise description of your idea, expected length, as well as why you think your piece would be a goof fit for this issue. Working titles are welcomed and encouraged. We publish pieces up to 2500 words. 

For all submissions: include a brief bio at the end of the email. 


Issue 01 Theme:


The inaugural issue will be centered around the theoretical underpinnings behind the title: E/X. It is a prefix but it is also a state of being. E/X here refers both semiotically and ontologically to a desire to move outward, to EX-press, to EX-tend beyond the thresholds of our self-contained perimeters. For some time now, the dominant discourse around Self-making has focused on inward movement, on a belief in some kernel of authentic Self located as a pit in our human centers. But while introspection has its time in place, with regard to the female subject, specifically that of the female artist, there is something equally as stifling. A journey to the center of ourselves leaves us rather alone, rather shaded, and rather separated from what is really going on around us—and what is inevitably a part of us. The female subject has been keeping it inside for eternity. 

For issue one we want to explore: EX-ness in the context of female art, whatever that means to you. What does it mean to EX-press oneself as a woman? What does it mean to EX-tend oneself into the world as a woman? What is potentially radical about the E/X: the linguistic, material and semiotic act of cutting something open, of creating entrances and exits between an “outside” and “inside” of Self? 

E/X Words: EX-press, EX-crete, EX-pand, EX-tend, EX-cite, EX-egesis, EX-oskeleton, EX-it.  

The deadline to submit is Friday, September 26.