Call for Pitches
OHF Newsletter Vol 1 No 4
“Play ball!”
You may have noticed a slight change in the Our Human Family (OHF) navigation: new headers! All the stories you’ve read previously are still available, but now they’re grouped under topical headers. As time goes on, you’ll see the addition of more categories within each header that’ll offer you a rich variety of reading material. And you can always find our newest and trending stories on the OHF landing page.
Up at Bat
New this week, Glenn Rocess is back with a new and provocative essay, “White Supremacists Have Already Lost the Race War, They Just Don’t Know It Yet.” And yours truly focuses on the myth of not seeing race in, “On Color-blindness.”
Call for Pitches
We’re filling out our editorial calendar for upcoming issues and we’d like to hear from you. If you’re a writer who supports equality for everyone across ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, or any notion that would be used to segregate our human family, we definitely want to hear from you. We’re convinced that exposure to, learning about, and seeing the similarities in the different ways people experience the world are key components to achieving equality.
We’re looking for long-form nonfiction essays (2,500 words), feature length nonfiction essays (800–1,500 words), and short-form nonfiction essays (500–600 words) about equality in the following areas —
- Culture — critical reviews and announcements related to literary, performing, and visual arts; this might include an occasional current event, but is not to be construed as “news”
- Dialogue — the nuts and bolts of discussing (and understanding) racism; along with its catalysts and hindrances
- Faith — where do faith and equality overlap, what does that overlap look like exactly, what doesn’t it look like?
- Family — kitchen table topics; stories of real world challenges families encounter and the triumphs they bring to fruition as related to equality and bias
- History — reviews of momentous occasions in American history that have advanced or hindered social advances on a local, regional, or national level
- Intersectional Feminism — women’s achievements, issues, and rights
- LGBT — how do LGBT rights play out in America? Are we there yet? Stories of where the country is hitting or missing the mark?
- Law & Policy — the practices (not politics) that impact achieving equality
- Personalities — notable people of the past or present as related to achieving equality
- Science/Medicine — this one’s wide open; but surely there are factors in science and medicine that impact equality
- Sports — sports figures, sporting events, trends, relevant topics at the intersection of sports and equality
- and more, if you have another topic you’d like to present, let us know
As you can see, many topics overlap. That’s intentional as equality is a broad and complicated subject that permeates all facets of humanity.
Innings
Our “themes” for the next three months are —
- May — moms, mothers, maternity, motherhood, tales of moms who are no longer with us, their legacies
- June — dads, fathers, fatherhood, hero tales of fathers, their legacies, all things dad
- July — freedom and independence
OHF isn’t ranty, whiny, or accusatory in addressing issues. This publication strives to offering thoughtful and well-measured options to handle situations. We always strive to tuck positive messages into our essays, and in doing so offer readers hope.
So. Check out Our Human Family, bat some ideas around, and drop us a line at info@ourhumanfamily.org. We’d love to hear from you. And while you’re at it make sure to hit that follow button on our landing page!
Clay Rivers
Our Human Family, Editor
Love one another.
