Submission Guidelines for Disability Culture Currents

Disability Culture Currents (DCC) is a new online opinion and personal essay publication by Disability Culture Lab that explores the currents of disability culture and identity.

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DCC is a platform for disabled authors and creators exploring the intersections of social movements and identity, the reality that all forms of oppression are disabling, and the fact that every issue is a disability issue. 

DCC will publish essays, opinion, comics, and illustrations by disabled creators and writers and the wider Disability Culture Lab community.

What We Accept

  • Disability Culture Currents (DCC) accepts written submissions from 600 to 1,000 words, and topical comics/graphic storytelling with a combination of writing and illustration. We do not accept submissions created using generative artificial intelligence (GAI).

  • DCC accepts pitches and drafted pieces from disabled creators anywhere in the world that are either opinion or personal essay and:

    a) illustrate how a system of oppression is disabling, such as racism, ableism, colonialism, capitalism, transphobia, etc;

    b) explore the intersections of social movements and identity; or

    c) explain how an unexpected issue is a disability issue.

  • We encourage news of day hooks, personal stories, academic research, artistic and creative expertise, or professional expertise to be included, but none of the above are required.

  • Submissions must be original, and creators must have necessary rights to publish any text, images, illustrations, or other materials submitted.  

  • If a submission has been previously published, creators must have necessary rights to republish with DCC.

  • Creators maintain ownership of their submissions and the right to republish their work 90 days after publication in DCC.

  • Submissions are subject to editing for clarity, tone, flow, and length; creators have the opportunity to review substantive edits before publication.  

  • Submissions are reviewed weekly.

  • DCC pays $75 per published submission, and we aim to increase this as we fundraise for additional resources. For creators based outside the United States, we offer an additional $25 to offset transaction fees.

Submit to DCC
Submit to DCC

Disability Culture Currents exists to:

  • Shift the narrative on disability from fear and pity to solidarity and liberation.

  • Illustrate how every form of oppression is disabling, and how disability is the end of every oppression story.

  • Create a space for intersectional disability cultural movements to thrive.

  • Platform multi-marginalized writers and creators in the disability community.

  • Shift the face of the disability community to match the base.

Submit to DCC
Submit to DCC