We are a mix between publication styles. We welcome personal essays, multimedia, creative nonfiction, and visual arts and plan to publish digital, audio, and print issues. We invite contributors to share their beliefs on, and relationships to, their content.

We are looking for pieces with depth, information, and context as well as pieces crafted with a strong emotional pull and call to action. We prefer pieces where a more generalized rather than specialized audience would feel able to engage with. And we feel so excited by publishing that plays with visual and physical form.

While we very much invite the intimate and personal in these pieces, we also are interested in how our experiences tie into larger scale movements because we believe that by placing our stories in the context of systemic action/inaction we step into our collective power. 

We hope we can balance writing styles and craft to connect our individual lived experiences to broader patterns, to humanize global systems, and to better understand what we can do to build the world we want to see. And we are excited to test printing on the risograph and hope to eventually work with artists to develop cover artwork or experiment with the structural and/or conceptual form of the magazine through various book arts techniques.
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We are not looking for jargon-heavy, inaccessible texts or the cloaking of the writer's own positionality and a purported neutrality that often furthers white, middle and upper class values.

In short, we are trying to combine everything we feel moved by from the kinds of publications we see out there and leave the things we don’t to create something different and experimental. 

Learn more on our About page, our About us FAQs, and our Launch event presentation.

Our audience is first and foremost fosterees and adoptees, then birth parents, then anyone else who happens to read our publication. We want to center fosterees, adoptees, and birth parent voices. We are not writing for adoptive parents. We are not trying to convince people to care about us. We are only trying to share what we’re passionate about and how folks can get involved. The connections we see between our many communities of origin, gender, sexuality, ability, and the ways we can build solidarity for our work to improve situations for our audience. 

There are ways we see this project being viewed by non-fostered/adopted people, absolutely. That is also not within our control, and a point of this project is that non-impacted people can see how we work and create when it’s not about them. We hope that through this one entryway they will learn more about these issues and support our work. We hope this could be one way to change minds and shape societal shifts.

We want to work with anyone who supports our goals AND we want to prioritize folks who have lived experience and been impacted by these systems we’re addressing as well as those who are more marginalized (folks of color, disabled, queer and trans folks, etc). 

Folks who are not fosterees, adoptees, and birth parents are welcome to submit work to our publication and we want to recognize the thoughtful and important contributions that some non-impacted folks have made to these subjects such as Dorothy Roberts, Eleana Kim, Laura Briggs, and Rich Lee, among others. 

In the cases of non-impacted people wanting to submit work to us, we want to take care with the long history of fosteree, adoptee and birth parent voices being ignored or decentered in favor of folks who hold none of those identities (oftentimes adoptive or foster parents) who are also overwhelmingly white.

This is why we ask folks who haven’t experienced family separation firsthand and who want to submit work to us do so with a co-author (or co-creator for artwork) who has been impacted. In general, we encourage collaboration and co-creation with this project because none of us develop our perspectives alone and is another way we can be in community with each other. 

Please contact us if you have any questions!

Artists and writers alike are welcome to provide any affirmations, guided questions, meditations, organizations to connect with, action items, etc. for readers to consider, reflect upon, or take action on after engaging with the content. These could be placed at the end of a written piece, or beside/after a piece of art. This is optional. We want to offer this as a way to make good on our first goal of “keeping education actionable.” 

We hope these ideas can empower the audience to engage, get involved, or otherwise move from a more passive role of consumption to more active practice. This is not intended as a promotional area for advertising purposes. 

IMPORTANT: we are unable to include any time sensitive items such as signing a petition or attending an event due to our extended production timeline.