Company/Publication: The Land, Food, and Freedom Journal
Topics: Food, Culture, Freedom
Rate: $350–$750 per piece (honoraria)
Deadline: Rolling submissions
Submit Via: Webform
What They’re Looking For
Freedom begins with land. Our ability to grow food, build shelter, raise children, gather, grieve, and organize starts with land. Without access to land or sustainable relationships with it, visions of liberation remain incomplete. Across generations, Black communities have faced land dispossession and systemic inequities—but we’ve also preserved practices of care, stewardship, and rematriation, fighting to live with land, not just on it.
FOOD
Sustenance, memory, resistance. Black food sovereignty asserts the right to define and control food systems, reclaim ancestral growing practices, and preserve culinary traditions.
Examples of Food Pitches:
- Recipes with stories on Black food traditions, family legacies, or culinary resistance
- Poetry and essays on food apartheid, commodification of Black foodways, or radical food systems
- Visual art, photography, or design celebrating Black farming, cooking, and communal meals
- Oral histories from Black farmers, chefs, herbalists, and food workers
- Research and case studies on Black-led food co-ops, community gardens, and self-determined food economies
FREEDOM
Self-determination through movement building, political education, futuring, and world-building. Work should explore strategies for liberation, cooperative economics, abolitionist frameworks, and transformative justice.
Examples of Freedom Pitches:
- Essays or manifestos on abolitionist futures, mutual aid, and cooperative economics
- Poetry and prose rooted in Afrofuturism, Black radical thought, or speculative fiction
- Documentary photography and short films on social movements and protest art
- Music, spoken word, and performance pieces as expressions of resistance
- Research on liberation movements, solidarity economies, and transformative justice
CULTURE
Culture mediates land, food, and freedom. It carries collective memory, creativity, and spiritual practices. Culture is where resistance, joy, and imagination meet, shaping traditions and inspiring futurism.
Examples of Culture Pitches:
- Storytelling, poetry, and prose celebrating Black cultural traditions and intergenerational wisdom
- Visual art, film, and music exploring ritual, spirituality, and cultural preservation
- Essays on language, folklore, and the impact of colonialism
- Oral histories from elders, cultural workers, and artists
- Multimedia projects documenting intersections of culture, resistance, and futurism
Submission Specs
- Written Work: Google Docs link, max 2000 words
- Visual Art: High-res JPEG or PNG
- Multimedia: Provide video, audio, or interactive links
Rates
The Land, Food, and Freedom Journal is a not-for-profit, freely accessible publication. Contributors are offered honoraria to recognize labor as part of a collective movement, emphasizing reciprocity and shared knowledge over market-driven payment. Baseline honoraria apply across all categories, with additional compensation for research-intensive work, expanded word counts, or commissioned projects.
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