Call for Contributions:
Collaboration

Deadline for submissions: 30.01.2026

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Like mosaics, the view from afar and the close reading of feminisms may give a very different picture. And like mosaics, feminist coalitions were built up from the bits and pieces available – other movements, committed individuals, actions and ideas. Some mosaics have been long- lived; others have crumbled, and their tiles have been reused, or have disappeared from view (Delap, 2020, pp.20-21).

 

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the eighth issue of Cultivate. The theme of this issue is collaboration.

Collaboration has long been central to feminist practice. It fosters the conditions for genuine friendship, mutual recognition, and forms of collective work that resist the patriarchal elevation of individual authorship, hierarchy, and the myth of the solitary genius. Collaborative practices redistribute power, knowledge, and creative agency, foregrounding interdependence and the collective as a site of shared becoming. Yet collaboration also carries risks: voices can be overshadowed, labour unevenly valued, and partnerships can inadvertently reproduce the very structures they aim to dismantle. Feminist collaboration thus requires continual reflection, care, and accountability, holding space both for its transformative potential and for the tensions and vulnerabilities it entails.

In the spirit of this theme, we hope this issue becomes a collaborative space. The Cultivate Team has composed some questions that you may wish to reflect on and respond to in your submission. These provocations are not exhaustive, but we hope they will spark rich and varied responses:

 

• To what extent is collaboration inherently feminist?

• Is collaboration privileged? Who is invited into - or excluded from - collaborative spaces?

• Can debate be understood as a form of collaboration?

• What is the relationship between collaboration and ownership?

• How do power, care and interdependence shape collaborative work?

• Which forms of collaboration have been overlooked, undervalued or forgotten?

Other possible perspectives and approaches include, but are not limited to:

 

• Community work and collective organising

• Geopolitics or transnational feminism

• Solidarity campaigns

• Rejoinder or response articles

• Cross-generational collaboration

• Feminist knowledge-making

We are open to submissions from any self-identified feminists, both in and out of academia, and align with our journal’s intersectional feminist values. We accept academic essays as well as creative work. We encourage submissions in all mediums of art and critical thought, including but not limited to essays, photo essays, poetry, videos, illustrations. For this issue, we are particularly interested in showcasing co-authored and co-created work.

Critical academic articles should be maximum 2000 words (including footnotes; excluding bibliography - formatting and referencing guidelines can be found here: 

https://www.cultivatefeministjournal.com/submission-guidelines). Creative pieces should be accompanied by an artist statement and bio of maximum 350 words (combined). We allow for multiple submissions of up to one article and two creative works. All submissions should be accompanied with a completed submission form (available on our website).

We look forward to receiving your work and to co-creating a vibrant and layered feminist mosaic of collaboration.