CALL for SUBMISSIONS: BLOOD, SWEATS AND CHEERS: 10 YEARS OF RADICAL CHEERING
BLOOD, SWEATS AND CHEERS: 10 YEARS OF RADICAL CHEERING
We are compiling a zine like anthology that will include a range of styles and voices – personal, political, academic, and artistic. This book should be like radical cheerleading itself, where the initial idea (an anthology) is corrupted to create a tool for activism. Let’s start writing about our experiences as radical cheerleaders setting protest (and turned over cop cars) on fire!
The following questions should provide a guideline for those wondering what aspect of RC to write about. Please choose your own adventure…mix and match our questions or make up your own!
Pom Pom’s Not Bomb Bombs
Do we make an impact politically?
• Action brag book or I can’t believe you got away with that!
• What was your favorite protest, and why?
• How does creative street theatre allow you to express your politics?
• How do the physical movements and choreography of radical cheerleading affect the way you participate in and feel about political action?
You Too Can Be a Cheerleader! NO TRYOUTS!!!
• Where/when did you first see radical cheerleading?
• What made you want to be a part of a radical cheerleading squad?
• How old were you when you first started cheering, and do you still cheer?
• How is radical cheerleading empowering? Sex, Gender, and Politics
• Pleated skirts and pom poms: Does radical cheerleading ever reproduce the politics or aesthetics it attempts to mock and reject?
• What were the gender politics of your squad?
• Is radical cheerleading for all genders/everybody?
• We’re here. We’re Queer. Get Used To It!
White Girls Gone Wild
• How are race and class accounted for in radical cheerleading?
• Why does radical cheerleading appeal to ___________ people?
• What did your squad look like and why?
Here Come the Cameras and the TV crew
• How does radical cheerleading (and performance activism) generate media attention?
• Does publicity help or hurt your message?
• Which stunts and antics worked, and which didn’t?
DIY
• Pleated skirts and pom poms. Radical cheerleading and fashion
• Queerleaders, jeerleaders, cuntleaders, raging grannies. How radical cheerleading is part of a larger movement of creative protest.
• Is radical cheerleading 3rd wave?
• Do you have a personal collection of radical cheerleading memorabilia? What does it look like?
• Did you ever write your own cheer or cheer ‘zine?
Deadline is June 1, 2007.
Send your photos, artwork, personal stories, academic essays, manifestos, cheers, collages, sound files, and more to: radicalcheerleaders @gmail.com - or -
Francis Goldin Literary Agency/Attn: Radical Cheerleading
57 E. 11th Street, Suite 5B
New York , NY 10003
Visit us at www.myspace. com/radicalcheerleadingbook
All accepted contributors will receive a copy of the book and financial compensation.
The editors – c – are represented by the politically progressive Francis Goldin Literary Agency in New York City (goldinlit.com)
We are compiling a zine like anthology that will include a range of styles and voices – personal, political, academic, and artistic. This book should be like radical cheerleading itself, where the initial idea (an anthology) is corrupted to create a tool for activism. Let’s start writing about our experiences as radical cheerleaders setting protest (and turned over cop cars) on fire!
The following questions should provide a guideline for those wondering what aspect of RC to write about. Please choose your own adventure…mix and match our questions or make up your own!
Pom Pom’s Not Bomb Bombs
Do we make an impact politically?
• Action brag book or I can’t believe you got away with that!
• What was your favorite protest, and why?
• How does creative street theatre allow you to express your politics?
• How do the physical movements and choreography of radical cheerleading affect the way you participate in and feel about political action?
You Too Can Be a Cheerleader! NO TRYOUTS!!!
• Where/when did you first see radical cheerleading?
• What made you want to be a part of a radical cheerleading squad?
• How old were you when you first started cheering, and do you still cheer?
• How is radical cheerleading empowering? Sex, Gender, and Politics
• Pleated skirts and pom poms: Does radical cheerleading ever reproduce the politics or aesthetics it attempts to mock and reject?
• What were the gender politics of your squad?
• Is radical cheerleading for all genders/everybody?
• We’re here. We’re Queer. Get Used To It!
White Girls Gone Wild
• How are race and class accounted for in radical cheerleading?
• Why does radical cheerleading appeal to ___________ people?
• What did your squad look like and why?
Here Come the Cameras and the TV crew
• How does radical cheerleading (and performance activism) generate media attention?
• Does publicity help or hurt your message?
• Which stunts and antics worked, and which didn’t?
DIY
• Pleated skirts and pom poms. Radical cheerleading and fashion
• Queerleaders, jeerleaders, cuntleaders, raging grannies. How radical cheerleading is part of a larger movement of creative protest.
• Is radical cheerleading 3rd wave?
• Do you have a personal collection of radical cheerleading memorabilia? What does it look like?
• Did you ever write your own cheer or cheer ‘zine?
Deadline is June 1, 2007.
Send your photos, artwork, personal stories, academic essays, manifestos, cheers, collages, sound files, and more to: radicalcheerleaders @gmail.com - or -
Francis Goldin Literary Agency/Attn: Radical Cheerleading
57 E. 11th Street, Suite 5B
New York , NY 10003
Visit us at www.myspace. com/radicalcheerleadingbook
All accepted contributors will receive a copy of the book and financial compensation.
The editors – c – are represented by the politically progressive Francis Goldin Literary Agency in New York City (goldinlit.com)
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