#humanitarian architecture

[vicshush]

[ID 1: A photo of the underside of a bridge. Based on the visible nearby cars on an adjacent road and the next photos, the space is at least 10 ft (3 m) tall and it is wide and long enough to park a minimum of 16 cars. The ground is covered with short, rectangular columns of stone, like irregularly-sized bricks, placed about a foot (third of a meter) apart in a very rough grid.

ID 2 & 3: Two photos of an older man with glasses, a medical mask, and a thin white fringe of hair. He is wearing a yellow smock over a white lab coat.

In the first photo, he has one hand resting on the long handle of a sledgehammer that is head down, upright on the ground, while he is looking out from under the bridge. The man is standing at the background edge of the space, based on the first photo. Around his feet are the short stone columns, but it looks like several rows from the edge have been partially destroyed, to the point that the space is much more navigable, and some have been completely reduced to rubble.

In the second photo, the man is in the foreground, holding the sledgehammer with both hands, lining up a swing at the base of one of the short stone columns.

/end ID]

So recently the mayor of my city placed a bunch of sharp stones under a bridge commonly used by homeless people to escape the harsh tropical storms we experience during the summer

A priest decided that was an utterly anti humanitarian course of action (rightfully so) and so his solution.. was to destroy those rocks with a hammer.

I'm not Catholic (in fact, I grew up Jewish and am now atheist) but I feel this is what religion is supposed to be about. Using the divine to help humans behave a little more... human.

[worldhumanitarianday]

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[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

au where alan still goes Mannequin mode but instead of doing murders he still does architecture and humanitarian inventing

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As Israel’s bombing campaign continues in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis deepens to catastrophic levels, the Biden administration has not wavered in its support for Israel.

United States weapons transfers - from 2,000-pound bombs to artillery shells and tanks - have been a crucial part of the Israeli military campaign.

Fault Lines worked with journalists in Gaza to profile three families as they try to survive the war.

Together with Airwars, Fault Lines also investigated an air strike on December 11 in north Gaza in which more than 100 people from the same family were killed.

Numerous attacks on civilians - including that on Hind Rajab and her relatives in late January - have raised international concern and questions over continuing US support.

Fault Lines partnered with Forensic Architecture and Earshot to investigate that attack.

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1072. Shigeru Ban /// Temporary Paper Log Houses /// Nagata, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan /// 1995

OfHouses presents: Japanese Architects, part I - Shigeru Ban.   (Photos: © Shinkenchiku-sha. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 11/1995; Shigeru Ban and Kartikeya Shodhan, 'Paper-Tube Housing', Perspecta, Vol. 34 / 2003; Belén García, 'Earthquake architecture: new construction techniques for earthquake disaster prevention', New York: LOFT and HBI, 2000; Manuel Gausa, 'Housing + Single-Family Housing', Barcelona: Actar, 2002; Philip Jodidio, ‘Shigeru Ban, 1957: Architecture of Surprise’, Köln: Taschen, 2012; Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Claude Bruderlein, Naomi Pollock, Eyal Weizman, 'Shigeru Ban: Humanitarian Architecture', Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, 2014; 'The inventive work of Shigeru Ban', Sidney: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 2017; Shigeru Ban Architects Archive.) — This project will be published in our upcoming book: Japanese Fields | OfHouses.

[beguines]

Plant scientists have noted that under similar environmental conditions, and with all sprayers adjusted properly, herbicide drift is "generally greater from aerial application than from ground application," and that the use of ground-based field crop sprayers through tractors reduces the likelihood of extensive drift. In an investigation I led with the team at Forensic Architecture, with close consultation and research supervision by Eyal Weizman, we were able to show that once sprayed, the herbicidal toxins sprayed by the IOF along the border are carried by the wind deep into Gaza—with wind speed and direction relative to the flight path as key environmental factors in determining the final impact of herbicidal spraying. But here too, environmental factors coincide with an apartheid structure for protection, recognition, and compensation that underpins the State of Israel. The colonial erasure of Palestinian existence through herbicidal warfare became further apparent after a confirmed the spraying by the Israeli army in 2015, Israeli residents of Kibbutz Nahal Oz living immediately on the other side of the Gazan border experienced unexpected agricultural loss and damage. On 16 November 2015, spraying for sterilization of agricultural land was carried out by the Northern Battalion of the Gaza Division of the army for operational purposes. Wheat crops sown in October 2015 in that area were scorched and dried up with no ability for growth on a land spanning 50 dunams. The toxicity of this spraying also prevented the Kibbutz from planning watermelons for the following season. Demanding compensation "following unsupervised spraying activity on active agricultural lands," the MOD paid the Kibbutz 61,900 NIS under a compromise agreement.

The case of Kibbutz Nahal Oz reaffirms that spraying herbicides by air is an inaccurate and less readily controllable method of application. The damages also confirm that low-growing crops are more vulnerable to this poison in various harvest periods as the toxins remain in the soil across seasons. However, while Israeli-Jewish farmers qualify for compensation, Palestinian farmers a few hundred meters on the other side of the border perimeter fall under the legal framework of Israeli military law and are denied the same protections and accountability. In June 2016, a claim on behalf of eight farmers in Gaza was filed by Al-Mezan, Gisha, and Adalah, seeking compensation for damages caused by aerial crop-spraying by the Israeli army in al-Zanna and Abasan al-Jadeda, in the border area east of Khan Younes. The complaints amounted to a total affected land area of 81.3 dunams, with an immediate loss for farmers estimated at $14,550, plus approximately $18,500 in water costs required for irrigation and replanting of the destroyed fields. In one of the complaints put forth, the herbicides reached a four-dunam agricultural plot farmed by Abu Ta'aymeh approximately 700 meters from the buffer zone inside Gaza, reportedly destroying the harvest and causing significant harm to the land itself. The petition held that the Israeli military's aerial spraying of herbicides constitutes a violation of both Israeli constitutional and administrative law, as well as of international humanitarian and human rights laws. According to the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) and Additional Protocols (1977), parties to a conflict must protect civilians and humanitarian interests during wartime and occupation, must refrain from causing harm or damage to civilian targets such as agricultural lands, and must respect the right of protected civilians to access food. The Israeli military's spraying of herbicides on agricultural crops which serve as a basic food source, while also taking into account the ongoing closure of Gaza, constitutes a violation of Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Yet, on 2 November 2017, the Insurance and Compensation Section of the Israeli MOD notified the human rights organizations of its decision not to provide compensation or reparations to Gazan farmers. Although recognizing its involvement in the spraying, the MOD does not hold itself accountable to the civilian population in Gaza, nor is it willing to provide reparations in accordance with its international obligations. Moreover, Gisha reports that the MOD has "failed to explain why the spraying was carried out, and why the same result could not be achieved using less destructive methods." To date, no Palestinian farmers have ever been compensated for damages to their crops resulting from herbicide spraying.

Shourideh C. Molavi, Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance

[liketwoswansinbalance]

How do you think the twins (like all of them in SGE) would act in real life?

I'm not sure if I'm interpreting your question correctly, so you can correct me if I'm wrong! I will take the ask to mean that you'd like to know how I think they would they adjust to our modern world, not necessarily them in a Modern AU. (Also, would you like me to include Castor and Pollux? I'm not sure if I'd have an immediate response for them, but I'll try to think of something, if you'd like me to.)

Sophie and Rise Rhian would probably embrace modern conveniences, and Rhian would likely exhibit more fear than Sophie would, in response to them, or he'd conceptualize things like electricity, for instance, as a just another form of sorcery. They would both appreciate modern cosmetics and technology, and Sophie would probably never want to return to old, backward ways when the future is so pristine and sanitary. Rhian, however, would mourn the great architectural feats of our past and our obsession with pragmatism and designs purely focused on utility. Unfortunately, I could see them being prone to believing absurd, medical/political conspiracy theories, and their germophobia becoming worse.

Agatha, Rafal, TCY Rhian, and Japeth would be more skeptical about modernity, at first, I think. Agatha would probably grow used to it, but continue to live by her old ways and values, in many cases. She might get into environmentalism, humanitarian causes, or antiwar efforts, etc. If either Rafal, Rhian, or Japeth saw a use or benefit to modern technology and ways of life, they would likely adapt, especially if it could get them something they desperately wanted. Rhian would probably use some form of broadcasting or social media frequently—and eventually get cancelled. I could also see Rafal or Japeth trying to radically change or impact the modern world if it provoked them. Japeth could go down the activism route (if it's in regards to his being gay), but I can't see him being that selfless about others' rights, others who have nothing to do with him, and I can't come up with any modern objects or activities that might appeal to him. Maybe, he'd even disavow modern technology, if it proved it weren't a means to getting Aric back. In addition, I could also see Rafal being incredibly rude in commanding voice-operated devices, and refusing to entertain the trivial, human-like gestures machines are programmed to recite, like greetings, and he would rarely use "please" and "thank you" in his commands. He'd have no patience for small talk or manufactured, repetitive, pleasantness because it's just a machine, and he'd be damned if a machine expected more respect from him than any human subordinate ever would! And, he'd get irrationally offended by certain output before he realized why things did what they were preprogrammed to do, such as give simple-minded answers that could appear to be an insult to his intelligence and common sense, as, a machine couldn't know his identity. After all, machines aren't capable of being hostile like Adela Sader was. So, eventually, he'd learn. Also, getting automated or human directions from the bodiless voices of intercom systems, at self-checkout lines, or on public transportation would probably infuriate him because he's so used to being the greatest authority at all times. Why abide the law when you can keep above it?

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✧.* Aries Moon - You radiate outgoing energy, always ready to embark on new adventures with an endless supply of enthusiasm. Your thoughts and actions are swift, making you a self-starter. However, your impatience can sometimes lead to a lack of tolerance, and you may come across as self-centered at times.

✧.* Taurus Moon - Those with a Taurus Moon exude confidence, energy, and a likable demeanor. Your artistic abilities shine, making you a natural in fields like architecture, gardening, or any creative endeavor. Yet, be cautious of becoming overly dogmatic in your views.

✧.* Gemini Moon - A Gemini Moon brings a wealth of talents, particularly in engineering and draftsmanship. Your mind teems with amazing ideas, and your communication skills are quick and witty. However, be mindful of occasional confrontational and sarcastic tendencies, as well as a proclivity to delegate responsibilities to others.

✧.* Cancer Moon - Firm and unwavering in your projects and ideas, you possess excellent business acumen and a pleasant character. You hold family and home life in high regard. Though you're sensitive, you often conceal this facet from others.

✧.* Leo Moon - You're a born entrepreneur who craves the attention of the public. Your enthusiasm and optimism are infectious, driving you to lead and inspire others. Sometimes, highly creative Leo Moons may overlook subtle nuances and effects.

✧.* Virgo Moon - Inquisitive and analytical, those with a Virgo Moon display remarkable efficiency and talent at work. However, you tend to withdraw in personal matters. You're an adept writer but can be a harsh self-critic, always on the lookout for mistakes.

✧.* Libra Moon - Externally bold and passionate, your inner serenity shines through. Others are attuned to your feelings, drawn to your loving and enthusiastic nature. You possess a natural commercial talent along with strong ambition.

✧.* Scorpio Moon - Intensely focused, Scorpio Moons can excel in professions requiring concentration, such as surgery or military service. Your enthusiasm can be overwhelming to some, and your fixed opinions may come across as inflexible. You're known for your coherence and intensity.

✧.* Sagittarius Moon - You're a restless and dynamic intellectual explorer. Your idealism and zest for life influence those around you. However, your frankness and caustic remarks can sometimes rub people the wrong way.

✧.* Capricorn Moon - Nothing can deter your drive for success, even if it means sacrificing your personal life. You possess a dominant personality that naturally tends to take charge in any situation.

✧.* Aquarius Moon - With humanitarian and idealistic tendencies, Aquarius Moons make great teachers or sports coaches. Yet, be cautious of thoughtless, sarcastic comments that can inadvertently hurt others.

✧.* Pisces Moon - While you may appear energetic on the surface, internally, you might struggle with reserve and self-confidence issues. Your kind and well-meaning nature often leads you to offer counsel to others. Occasionally, you may find solace in withdrawing from the outside world.as

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[humanrightsupdates]

Deadly Russian Attacks on Lviv’s Historic District

Civilians Killed, Schools Damaged in Western Ukrainian City

In Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, today is a day of mourning.

On September 4 at about 6 a.m., Russian air attacks struck the city’s historic district, killing civilians and damaging civilian buildings and infrastructure.

Seven people were killed, Lviv Mayor Andryi Sadovyi reported on Telegram, including four members of the same family: a 43-year-old mother and her three daughters, ages 7, 18, and 21. Only their father survived. Sixty-six people, including 10 children, required medical assistance, and 12 were rescued from under the rubble, Sadovyi said.

Local authorities said the attacks damaged about 50 civilian objects, including homes, medical facilities, and local architectural landmarks, located in Lviv’s historic district, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The attacks also damaged seven educational facilities, including a primary school and three secondary schools, affecting 1,456 children. Because of the early hour, no children or staff were in the schools.

An official from the city council education department told Human Rights Watch that Lyceum No. 5 on Kokorudza Street suffered damage to dozens of windows and classroom doors, as well as the stairwell. The school remains closed. Lyceum No. 17 sustained damage to over 100 windows as well as doors and the main gate. It reopened the next day and some students from Lyceum No. 5 will temporarily attend classes there.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has had a devastating, lasting impact on Ukrainian children’s access to education. The Ukrainian government reported that nearly 4,000 educational facilities have been damaged or destroyed since the full-scale invasion in February 2022. In Russia-occupied areas, children are subjected to the Kremlin’s anti-Ukraine propaganda, in violation of international humanitarian law. Active hostilities put children at risk and disrupt education.

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i love LOVE the moodboards!! all the photos go together so well too which is always tricky. if you have time i did engineering and now medicine, going for humanitarian and war work (trauma surgery). as a student always lived in a gothic, old architecture city with a new england close knit campus vibe, dark wood, anatomy, light snow, frozen lakes...

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[asciidot]

11 for laz I need more lore

In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?

Fear is a tangled concept when you're a functional immortal whose been alive for two millennia, but aside from Aurum's "Death" and the underlying dread of eternity, it would probably be the first time he "broke" one of its own hard set rules. Long text because there is ...context! needed!

cw minor character death

For anyone who hasn't been trawling my blog for scraps of lore over the years, or seen me in the wild back when I used to roleplay and join JSaB servers, Lazureus is the shape who is the head of the "Watchers", one of the four main sectors in Paradise, Utopia. The Watchers is basically their iteration of "defence" that our countries have, covering general policing, warfare, "peacekeeping", punishment and some other odd jobs. They do not have good optics, even in Paradise, and Lazureus is presently a pretty hated public figure, even though some argue his necessity.

Lazureus does not enjoy his line of work, nor deem it necessary, but has developed a numbness towards it because he doesn't have a choice in it. To hold some semblance of morals to keep himself sane once this position was given to him, Laz set himself a few rules, one of which being is no matter what: he cannot directly cause a death that was not on the field, or trialled beforehand through the Wayfinders ("Humanitarian" and Legal sector, Aurums domain). That means the person for which his hand was responsible for death was either deemed guilty or had "agreed to the risk" by stepping foot in a battlezone.

On the field, Lazureus is barely deployed because he is a walking natural disaster. All the siblings have their specialties; Amael can manipulate inorganic matter and metals (things of noise) with precision, Protham is fantastic with what can best be described as telekinesis (manipulating the space between noise and sound), and Aurum is exceptional with plants and life (things of sound). They all have their practical applications. Lazureus on the other hand, can reduce sound and noise to nothing. The only exceptions are Pink shapes with their unstable sound, and deities who are instead of Light, not sound.

All that exposition to get to the actual answer to the question!

Lazureus had been deployed by the King in order to clear out an area, as the meaningless skirmish against the Backlands had started to lose momentum and was causing more trouble than it was worth to their own people.

It was a pretty desolate area, and the evacuation order had been given, so Laz was more haphazard than he usually was. It didn't scout the area, and even at the end razed a run down building in the vicinity too, even though it wasn't quite in the designated zone, just clipping Paradise land-- because he had always hated churches. One broken old tribute to his creator couldn't hurt to erase, spite fuelled or not. It was half caved in anyway, so he was doing the place a favour.

Well, he thought as much until there was shrieking in the priorly silent battlegrounds. It was all the more chilling because there was only that. There was nothing to tune it out. No background noise, no people beside him droning on about patriotism, no wind, no gunfire, just the desperate cries of a singular living thing, alone and in agony.

The next hour he acted practically on autopilot, finding the person in a few panicked minutes, dragging what was left of them out from the debris, teleporting them both to Aurum and begging xem to fix it, because Laz himself couldn't, he wasn't designed to.

They survived a few lucid-ish days before succumbing to having half their body destroyed. They were writing an article on historical architecture, and the building had interested them, even though it was so close to a no-go zone. She finished writing it then died, like it was some sort of final duty. She had no family, and she took it in her stride. She said it was all coincidence, really, and even said she forgave Laz, that it wasn't really his fault. That Laz was a nice person and just happened to be in a bad position. She was one of the few people Laz ever brought himself to be completely truthful with in those few days, maybe out of guilt, maybe out of something else, he didn't know.

When he went back to the site, the mural of his creator was still intact.

It felt like Vie was laughing at him.

[emptyanddark]

To be clear, many in and out of the US government often treat the term “rules-based international order” as a synonym for international law. And proponents of the rules-based international order are happy to use or hail international law when it serves the United States, like when the International Criminal Court seeks to arrest Vladimir Putin for his war crimes in Ukraine. Yet the United States will never submit itself to the ICC. Under President George W. Bush, the US revoked its (unratified) signature to the treaty establishing the court. Under President Donald Trump, it sanctioned the families of ICC prosecutors who opened a war-crimes investigation into the US war in Afghanistan. That is how the rules-based international order operates. It doesn’t replace the mechanisms of international law; it places asterisks beside them. The rules may bind US adversaries, but the US and its clients can opt out. A brief history of how the US spent its post–Cold War moment of supreme global power shows the rise of what we now call the RBIO at the expense of international law. When the United Nations wouldn’t authorize war on Serbia to save Kosovo, the United States acted as if NATO wielded the same imprimatur, and no nation was strong enough to challenge its assertion. That impulse was supercharged by 9/11. The 2003 US invasion of Iraq made a mockery of international law while claiming cynically to uphold it.

What began as a response to an emergency in the Balkans is now routine. President Barack Obama turned a UN humanitarian mission in Libya into supporting the overthrow of Moammar El-Gadhafi. After the wreckage of Iraq became the horror of ISIS, the US stationed troops in eastern Syria with neither UN mandate nor invitation from the unfortunately enduring Bashar Assad. Trump ordered the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, one of the most important figures in the Iranian government.

“The RBIO cannot replace international law—international law is inherent in the very concept of a state, of an international boundary, of treaties, of human rights,” Mary Ellen O’Connell, an international-law expert and professor at the University of Notre Dame, said via e-mail. “But the RBIO is undermining knowledge and respect for the system of international law. The law’s capacity to support solutions to global challenges from war and peace to climate change and poverty is being severely degraded by this competing, deeply flawed concept.” Now consider what Israel is doing in Gaza. By early November, it was killing an estimated 180 children a day. The IDF demanded that Palestinians abandon their homes in northern Gaza and then, when hundreds of thousands complied, attacked the destinations in southern Gaza it herded them toward. After starving Gaza, denying it medicine, shutting off its communications, killing its journalists, besieging and even raiding its hospitals, and asserting that places of mass refuge are Hamas positions, Israel claimed to have killed “dozens” of Hamas commanders, out of a total death toll at the time of 10,500 Palestinians. There is no way to square those figures with international law’s demands for distinction and proportionality. Israel, however, knows it has something stronger than international law: the protection of the rules-based international order.

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Submission Window: January 1st - 14th, 2023 Payment: Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum), Poetry: up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. ($40 per poem), Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article, Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished, Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished Theme: Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like climate change, and created more sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, humanitarianism, egalitarianism, animal rights, decolonization, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, and anti-consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict. Submissions are closed for the rest of 2023. Our 2024 submission window schedule will be published by the end of September. (At the moment, our nonfiction department is current and always open for submissions. If the fiction portal is closed and you submit fiction through the open nonfiction portal, your submission will be rejected.) All submissions to Solarpunk Magazine are done via Moksha. Any submissions received via email will be deleted without a response. Please don’t email us to describe your story and ask if it’s something we’d be interested in before submitting. We appreciate the consideration, but its easier if you just submit the story through Moksha. Please read the full submission guidelines on down below or on our Moksha page before submitting your work. All submission periods end at 11:59 pm PST on the 14th of their given month. 2024 Submission Window Schedule: January 1-14 April 1-14* July 1-14** October 1-14 2024 Issue Release Schedule: Issue #13 – January 10 Issue #14 – March 12 Issue #15 – May 14 Issue #16 – July 9 (Colorful Roots)* Issue #17 – September 10 Issue #18 – November 12 (theme TBA)** *Submissions for the Colorful Roots themed issue will be accepted during our April open window. We will also accept non-themed solarpunk submissions during March. **Submissions for an additional themed issue will be accepted during our July open window. More information about the theme is coming soon! The Basics: If your work is accepted, please wait two full submission windows before submitting again. For example, if a story you receive word in April that your story is accepted, please do not submit during the May and July open windows, but feel free to do so once the September window opens. Simultaneous submissions: Yes, but please let us know immediately if your submission gets accepted elsewhere before you hear from us. Unsolicited reprints: No Translations: Yes Multiple Submissions: No, not within each category. But you can enter one submission per category per submission period. For example, you can submit one short story, poetry, and a nonfiction article all in the same submission window using each individual submission portal. Policy on Artificial Intelligence We recognize that there is a lot of positive potential for human societies in the development and use of artificial intelligence. We also recognize that there is a lot of justifiable concern over generative AI, data scraping, plagiarizing human created art and literary works, and the potential for AI to displace paying jobs for human artists and authors as a means of further enriching those at the top. Solarpunk Magazine is and remains a venue for human authors and artists to showcase their work. As a result, until further notice, we’ve implemented a strict policy that we do not accept any work created or altered by generative artificial intelligence programs such as, but not limited to Midjourney, Dall-E, and ChatGPT.

For a more in depth explanation of the reasoning behind this policy, please click here. Basic Formatting: •12 pt Times New Roman or comparable font •Double spaced (poetry does not need to be double spaced) •Indent paragraphs, no extra space after paragraphs (also not relevant for poetry) •Please number your pages •.doc, .docx, or .pdf for text files •.jpg or .png 300+ DPI for image files Word Counts & Pay Rates: Solarpunk Magazine pays professional market rates for fiction as defined by SFWA. Dollar amounts reflect the United States dollar (USD). Our rates are as follows: Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum) Poetry: up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. ($40 per poem) Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article) Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished If your submission is accepted, a copy of our publishing contract will be emailed to you to read, sign, and return. Go To Moksha Full Submission Guidelines All submissions are done via Moksha. Any submissions received via email will be deleted without response. Additional guidelines for each specific submission category are available below. For fiction and nonfiction, please format your submission document as follows: double-spaced 12pt Times New Roman font indented paragraphs no extra space after paragraphs A cover letter is not required. However, we appreciate a brief paragraph telling us a little bit about yourself like where you’re from and why you love solarpunk. There is no need to include a third person bio. We will collect that and other needed info if your submission is accepted for publication. Responding to all submissions is important to us, and we do our best to respond in a timely manner. However, we receive a very large number of submissions. So if you have not received a response within 60 days of submitting, then please feel free to inquire by sending an email to the appropriate department address found at solarpunkmagazine.com/contact. Simultaneous submissions are okay. Please let us know immediately if your submission gets accepted elsewhere before you hear from us. We only accept submissions of original, unpublished work. We do not accept unsolicited reprints. Exceptions: Visual Art: We do accept art reprints. Art is considered a reprint if it has been published anywhere online including but not limited to Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Art Station, Deviant Art, personal or artist websites, etc. Translations: We accept translated works that have been previously published in languages other than English. If accepted, translated stories that have never appeared before in English will be paid $.08 per word. We do not accept submissions of work in languages other than English at this time, though we hope to in the future. We do not accept multiple submissions within a single category. However, you may enter one submission in each available category (fiction, poetry, art, and nonfiction) per open submission period. If you are submitting work in more than one category (fiction, poetry, nonfiction or art), please use each of the separate submission portals for your submission in each category. We generally don’t provide feedback on submissions. We’d love to, but we get so many submissions that it’s just not possible. Please include the following with your submission:​​​ Attach your stories, articles, or poems in .doc, .docx. or .pdf format.Use .png or .jpeg attachments for visual art with a DPI of 300 or higher.We love to amplify voices from marginalized communities that are most impacted by climate change and other global problems. In fact, it’s one of the key characteristics of solarpunk. If you are part of such a community then we strongly encourage you not only to submit your work, but also to include one or more of the following tags with your submission as part of your cover letter:

#ownvoices#indigenous#globalsouth#bipoc#lgbtqia#actuallyautistic#neurodivergent#disabled#translation We realize there are many other tags that could be included, but we have to stop at some point or the list would be dozens of pages long. If you are unsure of which tag(s) you should use, feel free to inquire at info@solarpunkmagazine.com. Themed issue submission windows: Solarpunk Myths – What myths will be important to communities in solarpunk futures? What function and role will those myths play in people’s individual lives and in community life? Please include #SolarpunkMyths in your submission cover letter. Colorful Roots – Our second all BIPOC issue will publish in July 2023, and will have a special submission window to be announced soon. *Please include #ColorfulRoots in your submission cover letter. If we accept your work, we ask that you not publish it elsewhere or post it online prior to or within six months after publication in Solarpunk Magazine. For the rights we are asking for and other conditions, please see our publishing contract. We are a professional rate paying market as defined by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Our current rates are: $.08 per word for fiction ($100 minimum) $40 per poem $75 for for nonfiction $100 for reprint cover art, $200 for original unpublished cover art $50 for reprint interior art, $100 for original unpublished interior art Payments are made via PayPal. If you live in an area where PayPal is not available, then we will work with you to make other arrangements. We strive to ensure that our magazine and website is a space where everyone in our reading and broader communities feels welcome and safe. In that spirit we strictly enforce the following content guidelines: We also do not accept work that: is discriminatory or derogatory against communities that are and have historically been marginalized disparages sex workers, or that glorifies or sexualizes violence against them glorifies or sexualizes violence against people of marginalized communities reduces people from marginalized communities to objects or otherwise dehumanizes them. glorifies or sexualizes violence against children contains graphic abuse of animals We understand that stories and art may include elements of these things in service of critiquing present day society. But there is what we believe to be a clear difference between these elements being present in a work and work glorifying or advocating for these things. Solarpunk Magazine reserves the right to place content warning notices on any work that we accept for publishing if we feel it is warranted in order to ensure our magazine is a welcoming and safe space for all our readers. We will work with artists and authors as needed to determine the appropriate and correct content warnings, if any. If you are not okay with this, then we respect that and encourage you to submit work that won’t require content warnings. If your submission is accepted, a copy of our publishing contract will be emailed to you to read, sign, and return. Fiction Our fiction editors are interested in works that stir readers with themes of defiance, change, and achievement. This effect isn’t likely to come via high concept utopias alone, but rather, from vibrant characters whose struggles affect the reader. Speculative elements should be apparent but not dominating; our disbelief suspended not by necessity, but immersion. Any genre of science fiction, interstitial fiction, magic realism, or fantasy has potential as a solarpunk forum—we welcome robots and elves with equal excitement. Basics: 1500-7500 words Please use standard manuscript formatting (12 pt Times New Roman or similar font, double spacing, 1″ margins, page number at the top of each page, indented paragraphs, no extra space between paragraphs). Poetry Send up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. Prose poetry is fine, but if you are in doubt, submit it as fiction.

If possible, please remove all identifying information (your name, email address, etc.) from your submission file. Your submission won’t be rejected if your manuscript is not anonymous but we prefer to form our initial impressions on the work alone. What our poetry editor, J.D. Likes: Above all else, I value style and form, no matter which kind you choose. There needs to be a certain level of polish to the poetry you submit to us. Your ideas may be interesting, revelatory even, but if the quality isn’t there, then I’m afraid it’s not for me. Also, don’t worry about submitting poetry that rhymes, though I do adore that kind of poetry, and it’s always a delight to read a masterful modern one. Some classic speculative poems I enjoy: Echoes from the Outer Dark by Robert E. Howard Goblin Fruit by Christina Rossetti Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning Because I could not conquer death by Emily Dickinson Recent speculative poetry I’ve enjoyed: Rochambeau by Jessica Lévai Elegy for a Poet by Herb Kauderer Field Guide To The Invasive Species of Minnestoa by Amelia Gorman Nonfiction For non-fiction submissions, we’re interested in reviews, interviews, reports, articles, essays, and general audience-aimed overviews of academic papers relevant to solarpunk. Tell us about some cool science or technology that’s going to help us rewild the world, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or clean up our agricultural act. Weave us the stories of real people who are up to amazing things or of real projects that are underway to help create the world we want to live in. Give us a critical review (of a work, a set of works, or a topic) that rises high enough for a view of the forest as well as the trees. Stake an interesting claim and then convince us that you’re onto something. The possibilities are broad. Interesting is important. Thought-provoking is encouraged. So is keeping it kind. And, again, relevance to solarpunk is key. Some basics: 1- Please don’t send us your solarpunk manifesto or ‘What is Solarpunk’ article. We aren’t interested in publishing those at this time. 2- Non-fiction submissions should be 1000-2000 words long, clearly written, and accessible to general readers. Jargon, when it is necessary at all, should be clearly defined in the text or in footnotes. 3- We prefer to read things in standard manuscript format (double spacing, 1″ margins, page number at the top of each page). Footnotes should be used sparingly, endnotes not at all. Hyperlinks are great and a handful of references for further reading are fine, but not necessary. These are not meant to be academic publications! 4- Any accompanying photos, figures, or other graphics should be the digital equivalent of camera-ready and when the manuscript author does not own the rights to the image, it is the author’s responsibility to secure permission for the publication of the image(s), with any costs to be borne by the author. 5- Submissions should be in English, but either British, Canadian, or American spellings are okay, so long as the manuscript sticks to one style or the other. Please note that our unlike our other departments, nonfiction is always open for submissions. Thanks and good luck! Art We accept art submissions for both cover art and interior magazine art. We are only interested in art that qualifies as solarpunk. If you think your work qualifies, but are unsure, submit and we’ll review your work. We are not accepting submissions of AI generated art. To be considered for cover art, work must be portrait orientation, 8.5×11 inches or a larger equivalent, and at least 300 DPI. For interior art, we also want at least 300 DPI, but orientation and size are open. We prefer work with color, but we do also accept B&W submissions. We’re particularly interested in solarpunk art that features living beings, both human and nonhuman, rather than just architecture and technology scenes. To have your art considered by our art team, please use the Art Submissions Portal to submit a link to your solarpunk art portfolio.

Your portfolio folder should indicate which works are reprints, and which are unpublished. Via: Solar Punk Magazine.