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We also welcome volunteers. If you’d like to donate your time, drop us a line at [email protected] with a description of your skills/how you’d like to help.

Do you accept submissions?

Yes! Fairer Disputations accepts unpublished submissions that are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Articles should fall broadly within the journal’s four topic areas: Feminism and Rights, Sex and Exploitation, Gender and the Body, and Work and Family.

All submissions should align with our core mission: to advance a sex-realist feminism. We are looking for content that—whether implicitly or explicitly—defends a vision of female and male as embodied expressions of human personhood, affirming that men and women are equal in their dignity and their capacity for human excellence, yet distinct in many significant ways, particularly when it comes to sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and care for children. Each submission should express an original argument about how society ought to accommodate these realities.

Fairer Disputations is non-partisan and non-confessional. The topics we address are controversial and politically charged, but we do not accept articles with inflammatory, offensive, or insulting language. Content should be written for readers both inside and outside of the academy who want to think deeply about the unstated philosophical assumptions that shape our culture, politics, and society. Our goal is to create a forum for spirited discourse that is, nonetheless, precise, nuanced, and clear. Accordingly, we seek authors who are not only respectful and charitable, but also fiercely courageous and intellectually honest.

We accept:

• Op-eds: approximately 1200-1500 words, making a concise original argument in a popular tone.
• Feature Essays: approximately 1500-3000 words making an extended original argument. Can incorporate interviews or academic research and be written in a more scholarly tone but should still be accessible to non-specialists.
• Pitches: 300 words or less, describing the argument you’d like to write. If you haven’t written for us before, please also tell us why you’re the right person to write on this topic.

To submit, please attach your draft as Microsoft word document and send it to [email protected]. Text should be single-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, with all citations formatted as embedded hyperlinks to sources (no footnotes).