Call For Submissions Issue #2 of When Language Runs Dry

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Call For Submissions Issue #2 of When Language Runs Dry

We want to hear your perspective on Chronic Pain. We are looking for
anyone interested in submitting writing or easy-to-reproduce visual
art/comics on the subject and experience of Chronic Pain.

We are not as interested in pain management (drugs, therapies,
treatments) as in the social and emotional aspects of living with
Chronic Pain. We want to hear about the way persistent pain impacts
people's lives, relationships, and the way that they inhabit their
bodies and communities. How has the pain experience informed how you
identify yourself, how you feel about your body, and how you ask for
help? In what way has pain pushed you toward change? Ideally this zine
will be about support, sharing, and respecting what we've been through
with pain. Below are some ideas we've brainstormed for pieces¦ anyone
want to run with any of these topics?

- Asking for help in a Do-It-Yourself community
- Body Image / Identity and Chronic Pain
- Sex and Chronic Pain
- Chronic Pain and Introspection / Change
- Relationships and Chronic Pain
- Creativity and Chronic Pain
- Mental Health / Depression and the Pain Experience
- The Invisibility of Pain
- Upbringing / How were you raised to approach pain?
- Book Reviews / Chronic Pain Reading Guide
- Your ideas go here¦.

Additionally: are you a punk rock health care practitioner - or - a
partner or support person to a person in pain? What ideas and stories
about care giving and support do you have to share?

We'd love to hear from interested participants and have set a June
10th deadline for pieces. Please tell your friends, and pass this far
and wide. You can contact us with comments, questions, or submissions:
never...@yahoo.com

Take care,
Claire and Meredith