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lit & art fashion mag for & by queers+ | eics @addieisunwieldy & Sarah Sheppeck. | art @makeshiftlove. | vol. 05 out now! no DM pitches. pls email us! http://www.justfemmeanddandy.com
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We're hiring, offering small stipends! Take a look here:

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October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Just wanted to start the morning with Jubi Arriola-Headley’s words. Here’s an essay we solicited from Jubi for our Rebirth issue. We will honor him in our next mixtape. Sending rest and ease to our friend. 💜🕯️

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October 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The last time I saw Jubi Arriola-Headley he bowed at my feet & showered me with love. We didn’t see each other often but we had such a tender connection. I was honored to publish his kilt essay at @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social. I’m not ready to accept he’s gone. A tremendous kind fierce spirit.
Addie and Jubi at AWP.
October 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#FF It’s another colonizer holiday. Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that are BIPOC-led:
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@justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social
@kwelijournal.bsky.social
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@oatleafpoetry.bsky.social
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July 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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4) the flowing strands of time - uhh yep i'm one of those transmascs with a hair thing...? also old school asian american things? 😅 at the lovely @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social
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March 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Last August my editor and right hand person Felix Salmoran & I had a meeting at his house. I'd been thinking about the inserts of vinyl records, but more so, the excitement around the artistry of vinyl records. I was also considering the unsustainability of the traditionally printed magazine.
A vinyl dust jacket with a sticker that has just femme & dandy's logo inside a black record with the words the just femme & dandy mixtape. Peeking out of the jacket are a collection of mini zines, chapbooks, stickers, and broadsides.
May 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We’re starting a little storefront, closet swapit, at justfemmeanddandy.com/closet-swapit, where you can buy gently used clothing & accessories. If you want us to sell anything for you, reach out! First up, a 60s rainbow skinny tie! If you want to make an offer, email addie@justfemmeanddandy.com.
A skinny rainbow striped tie.
March 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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We are setting up our pre-orders for the just femme & dandy mixtape to launch with AWP, set to deliver early summer!

Rather than a traditionally printed or online mag, the just femme & dandy mixtape will include broadsides, zines, stickers, & other separates in a 12x12 vinyl dust jacket.
The just femme & dandy logo inside a black round graphic like a record with the words just femme & dandy mixtape in red and black.
March 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Announcing: GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy (@justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social)!

Tuesday, March 25th from 6:30-7:45pm EST.

Join us! Email beestung at sundresspublications dot com for the Zoom link. 💛🖤

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GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
February 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Baby's first Pushcart Nom! From our fat + furious section, volume 6, Talicha J's "Declarative Body." Please celebrate with us and read below!

www.justfemmeanddandy.com/06-talicha-j
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March 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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addieisunwieldy.bsky.social Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social · Feb 16
February 16. Check out Black queer writer Tylyn Johnson, @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social’s recurring contributor, in this dazzling piece on PValley’s Uncle Clifford over at the just femme & dandy Medium page: medium.com/justfemmeand.... One of my favorite pieces we’ve published. 🥰 #BlackHistoryMonth
The Worlds of Queer Black Aesthetics within the HNIC of P-Valley
Uncle Clifford and the queer Black body as a canvas.
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February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Please join our discord!!
January 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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#WritingWednesday We're in full on beanie season (an acquaintance's term) so here's my #haibun , "Beanie Season", about #skateboarding and gender euphoria published in @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social . #JeniverseWritings #poetry www.justfemmeanddandy.com/04wang-1
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November 21, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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November 24, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Check out our first ever cover story in our new issue!

www.justfemmeanddandy.com/06-qing-blaze
Qing wears a white dress shirt and a bow tie is around his neck. A brown blazer is draped around his shoulders, and has a crown pin. He stands in front of a gold curtain with the following quote: Drag doesn’t have to be onstage. It doesn’t have to be lip-syncing. It doesn’t have to be anything… People can try [it] on and figure out what it means for themselves. -Qing Blaze
March 13, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Honestly it’s a dream to feature Rose Butch 🥹😍 with an interview and drag videos, please check it out in our latest issue.

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Honestly it’s a dream to feature @rose.butch 🥹😍 with an interview and drag videos, please check it out in our latest issue. Over a gold curtain is a quote next to a portrait of Rose. Rose is in white face paint with red glistening lips, blue eye and red hearts on their cheeks, a black beret, a red tie around their neck, and a black and white striped shirt with a boat neck. They wear their hair short and curly. The quote says: Getting to play within gender in the expansiveness of drag is helping me follow that pursuit of gender euphoria and it is such a pleasure and joy to be able to share that with other people. -Rose Butch.
March 9, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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Happy Monday, babes! Go check out our featured interview with Sofia Aguilar and our brand new fat + furious editor SG Huerta in our new issue!

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[Sofia is next to a gold curtain with the quote in white text, “I want more people of color to be more visible in this community because we deserve that. It’s not just white girls who are crocheting and doing cute things.]
March 4, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Very thrilled to share our new issue!!

www.justfemmeanddandy.com/volume-06
Cover of just femme & dandy, with Black draglesque performer Qing Blaze on the cover, wearing a bow tie around his neck and an open collared shirt, peering out from behind a gold curtain.
February 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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One month to send in your work to us!! We pay a little in $ and a lot in 💜!
Red background with just femme & dandy’s logo. White text reads: SUBMISSIONS CLOSE IN ONE MONTH / JANUARY 15, 2024 / TIME TRAVEL ISSUE Red background. White text reads SECTIONS, underlined with the below text: MANIVESTOES (RADICAL IDENTITIES), SEW WHAT (DIY/THRIFT & COSTUMING), GENDERFUCKERY (ISN’T IT OBVIOUS), CANCEL & GRETEL (ETHICS & INCLUSION), FAT + FURIOUS (FATSHION), FEATURES (EVERYTHING ELSE). HTTP://WWW.JUSTFEMMEANDDANDY.COM FOR MORE INFO, *SUBMISSIONS DO NOT NEED TO FIT THEME* Black background, with The Time Travel Issue in Black within a white bubble. Text in black, red, and white reads: Submissions are open! We’re looking for: pieces on climate change and sustainability, pieces on or by up-and-coming drag performers and indie fashion designers, anything you can imagine for our queer future! Submissions close Jan 15. Please only submit ONE piece, whether that to our Editor-in-Chief or to a particular section, Queerasures & Queertopias: Past, Present, and In Futurity. Find all the details at www.justfemmeanddandy.com
December 15, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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Beyond Creating the Monster: An Interview with @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social

"I have always lived in this space of liminality, which is why Unwieldy Creatures isn’t only Asian and queer but specifically biracial."

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Beyond Creating the Monster: An Interview with @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social Franken-stans & Retellings. "I have always lived in this space of liminality, which is why Unwieldy Creatures isn’t only Asian and queer but specifically biracial." Image Credit: Haidan on Unsplash
November 4, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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Our statement in support of Palestine and a ceasefire.
We want to make it abundantly clear just femme & dandy stands with Palestine & Palestinian resistance. We are devastated & enraged to see apathetic responses & propaganda from world leaders & the media to the genocide of Palestinians, as well as lit mags, orgs, & our larger writing community. This is not a “complicated conflict.” This moment is an escalation of a 75 year ongoing occupation. Recent uprisings are a reaction to decades of colonization, displacement, oppression, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing. To condemn or equate Palestinian resistance to the violence of their oppressor is to paint this as a balanced conflict, which obscures the asymmetric war taking place & dehumanizes believers in armed resistance as a path to collective liberation. It is clear this is no longer about Hamas. Israel is collectively punishing the Palestinian people in an effort to further their settler colonial agenda. It is lot antisemitism to oppose Zionism. In fact, it is antisemitic to conflate Zionism with Judaism. Israel is involved in oppression internationally, including an exchange program with Atlanta PD to train at Cop City. We firmly believe all oppressions are interconnected, so our resistance must be as well. We demand an immediate ceasefire & hope to see humanitarian aid reach Gaza. In the long run, we firmly support the decolonization of Palestine & an end to Israeli occupation. We in the queer community are all too familiar with the notion that silence = death. To be neutral is to be complicit. For our readers and contributors who are wondering what they can do: Boycott, Divest, Sanctions: Starbucks McDonalds Disney SodaStream HP Puma Sabra
November 12, 2023 at 10:49 AM
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i'm reading pitches and submissions for @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social's fat + furious column!
I'm particularly interested in hearing from fellow fat queer POC but of course am open to anything that fits our guidelines <3
check out the whole call for subs (incl other sections!) below, & pls share!!
call for submissions — just femme & dandy
Any currently open calls for submission for staff or written works for our queer fashion literary magazine.
www.justfemmeanddandy.com
October 23, 2023 at 8:55 PM
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as a regular contributor for the past year or so, I'm so excited for my first jf&d issue as the fat + furious editor!
I'm specifically interested in hearing from trans writers & artists of color. Send me all the pitches! www.justfemmeanddandy.com/call-for-sub...
October 1, 2023 at 4:02 PM
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We’re open, please come hang with us and submit!
Graphic for call for submissions. We’re looking for: pieces on climate change and sustainability, pieces on up and coming drag performers and indie fashion designers, anything you imagine for our queer future. Submissions close Dec. 1. Please only submit one piece. Details at www.justfemmeanddandy.com.
October 2, 2023 at 7:13 PM