CFP: APA Studies in LGBTQ+ Philosophy

APA Studies on LGBTQ Philosophy invites members to submit philosophical essays, book reviews, short notes, and interviews, conversations, and more experimental writing formats for publication in the Fall 2026 edition. Members at all career stages and kinds of employment are encouraged to submit. We especially welcome submissions from LGBTQ+ people of color and from trans people.

Members should submit a short pitch (2-3 paragraphs) summarizing their piece, illustrating its tone and voice, and making the case for its interest to a wide audience of philosophers and/or LGBTQ members of the public.

The theme of the 2026 issue is: Resistance and Solidarity. Pitches should relate to this theme, broadly conceived. Approaches from all areas and traditions of philosophy will be considered. Topics can be approached in a variety of formats (in addition to argumentative pieces, personal essays, reviews, short notes, interviews and conversations, among others, are welcome). Potential topics include (but are by no means limited to):

• LGBTQ+ perspectives on the nature of solidarity or of resistance

• Paths for resisting the oppression of LGBTQ+ people in the current political situation

• Organizing within the university

• Epistemic or linguistic aspects of LGBTQ+ resistance

• Understanding everyday acts of resistance and solidarity

• The aesthetics of LGBTQ+ political movements

• Emotions and LGBTQ+ resistance and solidarity

• The potential and pitfalls of LGBTQ+ practices of resistance and solidarity online

DEADLINES
The deadline for submission of pitches is January 30, 2026. If the pitch is provisionally accepted, the deadline for a full draft of the piece is March 31, 2026. The editor (and perhaps an additional referee) will provide comments by April 30, 2026, with a final version due by May 31, 2026.

FORMAT
Pieces should be between 1,000-4,000 words, with shorter notes welcome as well. The maximum limit is 6,000 words, and is only acceptable in exceptional cases. Pieces should be reasonably accessible to non-specialists, and can be considerably more informal, essayistic, funny, irreverent, or narratively-driven than a philosophy article (think here of pieces of the sort published in n+1, The Point, The Drift, or, closer to our disciplinary home, The Philosophers' Magazine, The APA Blog, or Aeon). No footnotes or endnotes should be included except for (ideally very few) references, which should appear as endnotes.

CONTACT
Submit all pitches by email and direct inquiries to Carolina Flores, Editor, APA Studies on LGBTQ Philosophy, [email protected].