Hairy
It's time to do something about publishing something from my Honours thesis on body hair removal. A friend of mine just emailed me this Call for Papers. Looks perfect! (And not too academic, which appeals to me at the moment).
“Hair”
The first book in the TRUNK series
Editors: Suzanne Boccalatte (artworks) & Meredith Jones (writing)
To be published by Boccalatte Pty Ltd
TRUNK books will be a series of small, corporeal, personal, and sensual
books. They are intended to be beautiful, coveted objects filled with
fascinating content, much like an old trunk in an attic. These
collectable volumes will be consumable and engrossing as a whole, yet
filled with short pieces so that each book can also be flipped through
or dipped into at random. Each will explore a part of the human body
through writing, art, and photography. There will be interviews, essays,
fiction, photo essays, poems, and art works addressing multifarious
dimensions of the theme. The series is aimed at an intelligent, engaged
audience interested in both “high” and popular culture and is intended
to have wide appeal.
Our first volume will be about hair. Hair has deep cultural and social
significance (is it the only body part that can boast a dedicated
musical?). Hair grows on all mammals, but the particular configuration
of short vellus hair on the body and long terminal hair on the scalp is
found only on humans. We seek writing and art that explores the
fascinating cultural, historical, religious and social aspects of this
evolutionary ambiguous outgrowth of protein. Submissions must be
accessible, curious, entertaining and stimulating. Art and photography
can be of any size; writing should be 1500 words or less.
Often, it is an absence of hair or a hiding of hair that is culturally
or medically significant: thus we encourage fiction, essays, and
interviews about alopecia, male-pattern baldness, temporary hair loss
caused by chemotherapy, hair transplants, and Muslim, Jewish and Sikh
traditions of covering hair.
Hairy stories about fashion, personal expression, religion, cultural
confluences, and social status will be most welcome. Perhaps you would
like to contribute a photo-essay of famous combovers, or a more academic
piece about hair extensions and the global hair trade? Or you might
consider Goth hair, henna, hairdresser training, braiding, or hair dying.
Facial hair and body hair must not be forgotten: we will welcome work
that addresses body hair removal, the “Brazilian”, changing 20th Century
attitudes to women’s leg hair, bearded ladies, men’s facial hair (the
goatee, the beard, mutton-chops), Freda Kahlo’s eyebrows, and the
moustache.
This hairy collection may also include visual or written pieces about
wigs, going grey, androgyny, the beehive, locks of hair kept as
mementoes, collections of celebrity hair, the blonde recessive gene,
Medusa’s hair and its symbology, and the story of Rapunzel.
Submissions are due 9 June 2008
“Hair”
The first book in the TRUNK series
Editors: Suzanne Boccalatte (artworks) & Meredith Jones (writing)
To be published by Boccalatte Pty Ltd
TRUNK books will be a series of small, corporeal, personal, and sensual
books. They are intended to be beautiful, coveted objects filled with
fascinating content, much like an old trunk in an attic. These
collectable volumes will be consumable and engrossing as a whole, yet
filled with short pieces so that each book can also be flipped through
or dipped into at random. Each will explore a part of the human body
through writing, art, and photography. There will be interviews, essays,
fiction, photo essays, poems, and art works addressing multifarious
dimensions of the theme. The series is aimed at an intelligent, engaged
audience interested in both “high” and popular culture and is intended
to have wide appeal.
Our first volume will be about hair. Hair has deep cultural and social
significance (is it the only body part that can boast a dedicated
musical?). Hair grows on all mammals, but the particular configuration
of short vellus hair on the body and long terminal hair on the scalp is
found only on humans. We seek writing and art that explores the
fascinating cultural, historical, religious and social aspects of this
evolutionary ambiguous outgrowth of protein. Submissions must be
accessible, curious, entertaining and stimulating. Art and photography
can be of any size; writing should be 1500 words or less.
Often, it is an absence of hair or a hiding of hair that is culturally
or medically significant: thus we encourage fiction, essays, and
interviews about alopecia, male-pattern baldness, temporary hair loss
caused by chemotherapy, hair transplants, and Muslim, Jewish and Sikh
traditions of covering hair.
Hairy stories about fashion, personal expression, religion, cultural
confluences, and social status will be most welcome. Perhaps you would
like to contribute a photo-essay of famous combovers, or a more academic
piece about hair extensions and the global hair trade? Or you might
consider Goth hair, henna, hairdresser training, braiding, or hair dying.
Facial hair and body hair must not be forgotten: we will welcome work
that addresses body hair removal, the “Brazilian”, changing 20th Century
attitudes to women’s leg hair, bearded ladies, men’s facial hair (the
goatee, the beard, mutton-chops), Freda Kahlo’s eyebrows, and the
moustache.
This hairy collection may also include visual or written pieces about
wigs, going grey, androgyny, the beehive, locks of hair kept as
mementoes, collections of celebrity hair, the blonde recessive gene,
Medusa’s hair and its symbology, and the story of Rapunzel.
Submissions are due 9 June 2008