Open Call for Contributions for Pasya Advocazine Issue 2

Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) is now accepting submissions for publication in the second issue of Pasya advocazine, stories, practices and perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the Philippines.

Pasya is the Filipino word for decision, or a choice one makes after thinking carefully. At Pasya, we believe that when advocates, women, and girls have the access and capacity to use information, are aware of their rights, and have the opportunity to voice themselves, they can effectively demand power holders to bring about change and create positive shifts in social and -cultural norms and values so women and girls are free and able to make informed choices towards having safe and healthy sexual and reproductive health and lives, free from stigma, fear, and violence. Pasya aims to collect and share learnings and advocacy practices and amplify the stories and demands of women, girls, and other vulnerable and marginalized groups. 

The theme of the second issue of Pasya advocazine is Intersections.

Our experiences of claiming our sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) intersect with experiences of multiple and concurrent crises – COVID-19, the climate crisis, authoritarianism, extreme inequality, to name a few – and the myriad vulnerabilities we are exposed to owing not only our position in society as women, girls, and LBTQIA+ but as a result of other identity markers such as age, class, religion, education, race, ethnicity, and location.

In line with this theme, we invite writers to submit essays, opinion articles, feature articles, or study results that:

• Share experiences of women, men, and LGBTQIA+ from diverse backgrounds and explore how identity factors intersect to facilitate the fulfillment or denial of their sexual and reproductive health and rights; and
• Discuss frameworks and analytical tools that could guide inquiry on the interplay of systems of oppressions with inequality and inequity in sexual and reproductive health;
• Illustrate how concurrence of crises, identity factors, and contextual factors, such as legal, socio-economic and political aspects and governance issues also affect SRHR; and
• Show approaches or strategies used or can be used by social movements and organizations to work together and/ or address the complex intersecting factors that shape people’s SRHR.

We are also accepting experimental pieces, visual and textual media, and political interventions, including interviews, short stories, poems, and photographic essays for an Open Space section on women’s rights, human rights, and SRHR issues that may or may not fall within the issue’s focus.

Please send expressions of interest, pitches, or inquiries to office@wgnrr.org.

Important dates/ deadlines

AUGUST 13 – Deadline for Expression of Interests/ Pitches/ Abstracts (no word count requirement)

SEPTEMBER 17 – Deadline for submission of full-length articles (approximately 800-1500 words)

OCTOBER 8-9 – Writeshop