Friends of Queer History association was established in 2020 to promote knowledge of the history of gender and sexual diversity, and the recording, study and presentation of queer history.
In the online journal Writings from Friends of Queer History, we publish commonsensical information about Finnish queer history and its sources, based on research.
In addition to serving the general public, the journal’s articles serve researchers, memory organizations and educational institutions in particular.
We publish the following types of text:
Due to the association’s limited financial resources, author fees are only paid to authors who cannot include writing in their monthly paid work. Please note that the author’s fee is always agreed separately and paid if the association has the funds for it.
| Text: | Description: | Author’s fee: | |
| Articles | Short (approx. 1000–1200 words) scientific articles on the themes of queer history; based on researchers’ own studies | 250 € | |
| Essays | Short (approx. 400-700 words) texts by various authors on storing, researching or teaching queer history | 150 € | |
| Presentations | Presentations written by memory organizations about their collections, public programs or other operations | – | |
| Press releases | Press releases related to the association’s operations and field of activity | – |
Texts offered for publication must be written informatively and in commonsensical language. Scientific articles use references (internal references) and/or a bibliography at the end. We publish texts in Finnish, Swedish and English.
Manuscripts will be sent to verkkolehti@sateenkaarihistoria.fi. The editor-in-chief of Writings from Friends of Queer History is Tuula Juvonen and the secretary is Laura Jurmu. The editorial board consists of members of the association’s board.
You can contact the editorial board before writing the manuscript and tell us about the text proposal.
Instructions
Please send the following information along with your final text:
An illustration image for the text, for which you hold publication rights
The image should be large enough (900 x 500 px) and in landscape format, preferably with a 16:9 aspect ratio, so that it displays correctly on different platforms. An image increases the accessibility of the text, e.g. availability through search engines. Please include the following information with the image:
- What the image depicts: people, place, situation / caption
- Alt text, i.e. a description of the image for screen readers
- Date the photo was taken, if known (at least the year)
- Photographer’s name
- Copyright and licence information, if the photographer is someone other than the author
- The organisation holding the image, if the image comes from a museum or archive
- An example of a credit line from Finna, following the museum’s own guidelines:
SETA board, 1981. Photo: Paula Kukkonen. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The Finnish Labour Archives
We can help you find a suitable image if needed.
Short bio
A description of a couple of sentences about the author, their relationship to the topic, their professional background or their perspective on the text. You can look at previously published articles for examples. In your bio, please mention the possible university affiliation, as well as the possible university where any research related to the text was carried out.
Keywords
Choose 2–8 keywords that describe the topic of the text and the subject areas most closely related to it. The journal’s texts are indexed in the Melinda database, so as a rule we use keywords from Finto’s General Finnish Ontology (YSO). If a keyword is missing from YSO or is incorrect, you can use a more suitable one.
An ISSN number for the English part of the journal will be applied from 2022 onwards. The writings will then be indexed into public databases and can be linked to universities’ research information systems to gain social impact for the author and their organization.
Abstract
Please include an abstract of approximately 150–200 words.