Thanks for your interest! Read the application below carefully and take your time. Contributor guidelines are below the cut. Applications close July 2nd 2022.
“Our Side: Queer Enough” is a Good Omens charity fan zine with a focus on LGBTQIA+ identities and experiences that often feel overlooked. We’ve all heard it, or even felt it: am I queer enough? Do I belong? Can I even be here? This October, Our Side stands proudly in support of the most marginalized voices within the queer community.
A panromantic wife and an aromantic husband raise their Antichrist child. A demisexual Madame enjoys intimacy with others but only begins to feel attraction to someone after many years. Though he’s yet to have any partner, a witchfinder knows he’s only interested in other men. An ambassador’s wife discards the expectations of heteronormativity to embrace her identity as a lesbian. A bisexual witch introduces her agender masc-presenting boyfriend to her family. A nonbinary angel and demon platonically dine at the Ritz.
In an ineffable world AND our own world, they are all queer enough. Our visible genders, sexualities, romances, solo status or partnerships, and experiences do not erase who we are inside. Yes, you belong here.
We seek the art and stories you wish you could pass to your younger self, or to other LGBTQIA+ people in your life dealing with gatekeeping, imposter syndrome, and erasure of their identities. The sort of fan works that will encourage confidence and self-acceptance.
This zine will have digital orders available from October 21 to November 4. Charity to be determined! We will use a pay-what-you-like method for this digital-only edition.
Contributors are expected to create new pieces for the zine. OUR SIDE: QUEER ENOUGH asks to hold an exclusive on the content until a date To Be Announced (expect late November 2022).
Please only apply for either Visual or for Written art. Thank you!
Production Team:
Claude (claudetastic)
Caspian (CaspianTheGeek)
North (SeedsOfWinter)
Suvroc (ApolloJust)
Please be aware: There’s A LOT to unpack and be gentle around with queer identities and experiences when one worries about if we’re “queer enough”. The team feels strongly enough about this topic to attempt this edition, especially since we each have identities or experiences which get questioned by others outside of and within the community. We will not tolerate any policing, gatekeeping, or erasure of others’ queer identities or experiences. Doing so will risk immediate removal from the project. We appreciate that you agree with us on this policy.
IF YOU THINK “I’M NOT SURE I’M QUEER ENOUGH OR MARGINALIZED ENOUGH”, YOU ARE EXACTLY WHO SHOULD APPLY TO THIS!
This will be our last OUR SIDE ZINE until after season 2 (we’ll reassess at that point so no guarantee we’ll be back). We’re going to do our damned to make this the best OSZ yet.
And the topic is extremely near and dear to our hearts, both recently and over the lives of our production team. There are so many identities and experiences that get pushed aside both by the mainstream and within the LGBTQIA+ community. I want to hear your story, I want to see you relate it to others through the lense of GOOD OMENS. I can’t wait to see all your proposals.
