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Subject: [the collective] call for submissions
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:57:20 -0400
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Muslim Women Redefine WAR
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> This anthology seeks to redefine the stereotypical
> definitions of "Muslim" women that over flow Western
> discourses on the Islamic Other. The veil,
> seemingly the age-old symbol of our repression and
> the archetypical rationale for our rescuing by the
> west, has become a transp! arent symbol of Islamic
> "barbarity." In this anthology we seek to move
> beyond such sterile representations and narrow
> debates, calling for work that engages the
> complexity that make up "Muslim" women's
> contemporary realities. We seek to construct a
> multiple-voiced text and many-sided vision of our
> lives as "Muslim" women by forging ourselves into
> new creative collectivities. In this process the
> category "Muslim" must be rendered anew through our
> own politics and cultural practices and such a
> rendering must reflect the many valences of our
> multiple histories because we come from all parts of
> the "Muslim" world-whether we are from Saudi Arabia,
> Britain, Indonesia, Sudan or Black Muslims in the
> United States. Through this anthology we seek to
> build coalitions among "Muslim" women, broadening
> the definitions of "war," and giving voice to the
> multiplicities of our lives. The reason why we have
> put "Muslim" in quotes throughout this call is to
> move away from those tendencies that seek to reduce
> us to monological stereotypes and to define us in
> one homogeneous way.
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> This anthology encourages submissions that might
> subvert these stereotypes, claim them and move
> beyond them or perhaps simply ignore them. Through
> poetry, prose and photography we wish to express the
> multiple voices that move within us and in our
> communities, voices that trouble the dominant
> generalizations. Submissions should speak of war
> broadly but of struggles specifically and redefine
> war and warring, from our bodies to the so-called
> war against terrorism, from the war against
> hetronormativity in our homes to the construction of
> the nation, from the war for control over our
> sexuality to the wa! r against cancer.
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> For ages it seems we have been torn between two
> empires, one that claimed our freedom in rapacious
> capitalism and another that claimed to breaks these
> bounds by divesting us of our cultures. Both were
> caught in a shadow dance of proliferating arms. Now
> with the end of this so-called Cold War, the nuclear
> race over and bombs under every pillow we are at the
> beginning of another divide. Today, the US and its
> military is seeking to impose a (new) world
> (dis)order creating new dictionaries of control,
> defining, normalizing which person and populations,
> which nation and which culture can enter the theater
> of "civilization." Sometimes this is simply a
> matter of which look matches this weeks terrorist.
> Can we really believe what they claim constitutes a
> threat when people are being held captive without
> due pro! cess, unjustly profiled and targeted and
> carpet bombed, from immigrant ghettoes of the US to
> Camp X-ray at Guantanamo Bay, from Palestine to
> Iraq, to Afghanistan, to Kashmir? We are living in
> a period where violence is the rule of the day,
> where states sponsor and legitimizing violence
> seeking to control populations, to define a "just"
> death and to monopolize the right to kill.
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> As our lives become targets of manufactured
> "truths", and the real questions hidden behind
> corporate media sound bytes, Islam becomes the new
> demon to be exorcized. While corporate radars drain
> our economic and natural resources, and war lord
> militias backed by the US confiscate our lands, our
> cultures are "occidentalized"; the Pentagon has
> co-opted The Battle of Algiers. It becomes even
> more urgent to open our selves to the multiple forms
> of struggle! s-to the many becomings that our survival
> demands. As "Muslim" women we are at the forefront
> of struggles and war all over the globe. We are
> targets of hate crimes in the US, we are also
> suicide bombers in Palestine, "Muslim" women are
> taking up arms and throwing their bodies against
> military machines while offering their sons,
> brothers, husbands, fathers and friends to. war.
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> Through poetry, prose and photography this anthology
> seeks to bring together the experiences, dreams,
> nightmares and views of "Muslim" women in their
> daily struggle in and against wars throughout the
> world. As the war against "terrorism" unfolds, we
> seek submissions that address the every day of
> "Muslim" women's lives and that reconnect our
> resistances, spirituality and religion, and our
> memory, loss, violence, sexuality and love.
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&g! t; Issues such as but not limited to:
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> Muslim Women and the Nation
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> Terrorism
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> Counter terrorism
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> Muslim women and the Nuclear Bomb or WMD
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> Muslim women and women of colour
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> Building Coalitions
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> The war in Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan,
> Nepal, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Middle East,
> New York City, Indonesia, Algeria, Sudan, etc. etc.
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> Hate crimes
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> Queer Muslim women and their struggles and wars
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> The border the body and the Muslim nation
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> Motherhood and war
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> Pregnancy and War
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> Military Tribunals
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> INS detention and deportations
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> The construction of the wall in Palestine
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> India Pakistan border
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> Nightmares and September 11th
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> The Gulf War
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> Media and Muslim women
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> Organizing and Muslim women
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> The veil and liberation
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> The Quran and war and women
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> Muslim women and health
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> Reproductive rights to the fight for better health
> care/facilities
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> Cancer and Muslim women
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> Submission deadline: November 15th, 2004
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> Sarah Husain
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> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Mail:
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