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About

QPJ provides an international forum for the critical examination of queer performance in its most expansive forms. As a fully independent open access journal, QPJ is committed to research that interrogates queerness in performance and that considers what performance opens, destabilises and reconfigures in queerness. Following Alyson Campbell, Steve Farrier and Manola-Gayatri Kumarswamy, we ask: what’s queer about queer performance now?

QPJ publishes scholarship on all aspects of queer performance and live art, including but not limited to performance art, dance, theatre, drag, dramaturgy, cabaret, writing, poetry, sound, music, video, moving image, digital arts and the various (counter) cultural and (anti) institutional contexts in which these practices exist. We are interested in how the social, material, ethical and historical are performed and queer modes of analysis that explore how human and other-than-human structures, events and processes become sites of contestation. Embracing affect, QPJ encourages interdisciplinarity and hopes to catch work that falls between the cracks of pre-existing disciplines.

QPJ maintains (in the words of Jack Smith) a ‘hatred of capitalism’,  is unashamed of its liberationist positioning and desire for radicalism, while attending to the many vulnerabilities, inconsistencies, hypocrises, limitations and fractures of queer lives, labour and art. We echo Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam’s call, from the title of their earth-shaking anthology of radical trans poetics, as we too ‘want it all’: a free Palestine, abolition, open borders, ecological justice, the self-determination of people against capital and colonial relations, bread, roses, and hormones. As such, QJP strives to refute monolithic and assimilationist conceptions of queerness – embracing plurality and complexity – and to wear holes in homonationalism, by frequently advocating for the debased, filthy, rotten and perverse.

Focus and Scope

Mode: 

QPJ aims to connect queer research with as wide a readership as possible, creating a fully open access (‘diamond’) publication without paywalls or charges for all readers and authors. The Journal rejects the exploitative models that have come to dominate academic publishing and refuses the profit-driven extraction mechanisms that too-often siphon  public funds from universities for corporate gain which accumulates in tax-avoiding offshore bank accounts. 

QPJ operates a continuous publication model. This means – following peer and/or editorial review – works will be released online instead of waiting for a complete Journal Issue. This allows a more responsive timeline where some works can be published faster and others can take longer if needed. The ‘issue in progress’ will accrue gradually and close once completed. New works will then instigate a new issue. QPJ hopes to print complete issues (subject to available funding) but each issue will remain freely available online. Works comprising a Special Issue will be released simultaneously on the day of publication. 

Submissions: 

QPJ publishes:

• Research Articles (usually 5,000-10,000 words, excluding references) [peer reviewed]

• Creative Interventions/Artistic works (usually 1,000-5,000 words)

• Interviews (usually 3,000-5,000 words)

• Forum Discussions (usually 2,000-4,000 words)

• Performance/Book/Event/Festival/Exhibition Reviews (usually 1,000-2,500 words)

Other modes of contribution, or combinations of the above, are welcomed to be discussed with the editors. 

QPJ invites proposals from guest editors for Special Issues (with a theme) and releases calls for papers, alongside an ongoing open submissions process. The work of QPJ is primarily conducted in English, but work written in other languages or dialects or in more than one language/dialect are invited.  

Peer Review: 

All research articles undergo a process of collaborative open peer review, with the aim of building discursive communities of scholars who support, engage and develop alongside each other. This means reviewers are not anonymous, encouraging ‘open interaction’ where authors, reviewers and editors are engaged in reciprocal discussions.

Creative/artistic works, interviews, discussions and reviews will be offered editorial support and authors can request open peer review engagement if this may be helpful to the development of the works. 

Peer Review

All research articles undergo a process of collaborative open peer review, with the aim of building discursive communities of scholars who support, engage and develop alongside each other. This means reviewers are not anonymous, encouraging ‘open interaction’ where authors, reviewers and editors are engaged in reciprocal discussions.

Creative/artistic works, interviews, discussions and reviews will be offered editorial support and authors can request open peer review engagement if this may be helpful to the development of the works. 

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

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• CC BY 4.0 (external link, opens in new tab).
  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
• CC BY-ND 4.0 (external link, opens in new tab).
  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
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  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
• CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (external link, opens in new tab).
  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
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  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Fees

No fees - ever! 

Publication Cycle

This journal published continuously all year round.

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