Cohousing-L Mailing List: Call for Articles: Communities #151: Intimacy

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Hello,

Communities magazine is now seeking articles for issue #151,
"Intimacy." The issue will be out in June 2011.

Please send your article idea to editor [at] ic.org by Friday, December 24,
2010, or sooner if possible.

Your final article must reach us by Friday, February 18, 2011.

1. Theme articles: Intimacy

    possible questions to address (feel free to pick and choose or innovate):

    * What does "intimacy" mean to you?

    * What are the different kinds of intimacy we experience in community?

    * What kinds of groups enhance the experience of intimacy? What
kinds of community may erode it?

    * How do different people handle intimacy differently?

    * How does intimacy with significant people in your life
(partners, children, best friends, etc.) differ in community vs.
non-community?

    * How do you or does your community culture set boundaries on intimacy?

    * What's it like to share intimacy in the often privacy-poor
environment of community?

    * Is intimacy in community experienced differently by introverts
and extroverts?

    * What is the role of physical touch in our relationships?

    * What are strategies for coping or dealing with loneliness in community?

    * What types of intimate relationships does community create or
encourage that are not generally found in the wider culture?

    * What's it like to be intimate with people we don't know very
well, as is sometimes asked of us in the context of community?

    * Does intimacy imply "specialness"?

    * Do you have experience with polyamory in community? Monogamy in
community? Being single and unattached in community? If so, how did
community (however you define it) affect your experience of these
relationship(s), as opposed to being "not in community"?

    * How is intimacy expressed in communities that practice celibacy
(or for individuals who practice celibacy within communities that
aren't celibate)?

    * Does community make committed relationships stronger? Or does it
threaten them?

    * If you don't live in an intentional community, has your
experience of intimacy nevertheless affected your feeling of community
with others? Has intimacy led you to reach out socially, or to draw
in?

    * Have you noticed any influence of physical design and
infrastructure on levels of intimacy within groups? What other factors
affect intimacy?

    * Has community changed your perception of romantic love? Of other
types of love?

Please remember that we are looking for stories, personal experiences,
and concrete examples in your answers--these are what will make your
ideas and observations most "real" and relevant to readers.

[Please forward this email to anyone you think has a good story on
this theme for Communities.]

2. We are also seeking articles about:

    * Creating community in your neighborhood;
    * Starting a new community;
    * Process and communication issues in community; and
    * Seeking community to join.

Suggested submission length is from 300 to 2500 words. We invite
submissions ranging from short vignettes to extensively-developed
articles, and also invite suggestions of recommended resources and
article leads. We're seeking articles written in a reader-friendly,
popular-magazine style, rather than in an academic style. We ask
contributors to share stories and experiences, not just ideas; write
about challenges, not just successes; and describe specific situations
that will help your story come alive for the reader. Before you start
writing, please check http://communities.ic.org/submit.php or contact
us for our full Writers' Guidelines--and let us know your article
idea so that we can give feedback on how it may fit into Communities.
Contact Chris Roth at editor [at] ic.org.

If you don't want to write an article but want to submit photos,
please check http://communities.ic.org/submit.php or contact Yulia
Zarubina at layout [at] ic.org for our Photo Guidelines.

I. What "Submitting an Article" Means. We will promise to read
your article, but we may respectfully decline it and not publish it,
or save it and publish it in a future issue. We also reserve the right
to edit, shorten, or revise your article. Most of the time we contact
authors about this ahead of time and get their comments, corrections,
etc.

II. Getting Permission Ahead of Time. Please send the article only
when you have permission from anyone you need it from, such as fellow
community members. We endeavor to present a diversity of views on
community, including controversial or critical views, in a respectful
and cooperative manner. If your article may generate controversy or
strong reactions, or if the group(s) would want the chance to review
it, please share your draft with group members to get their input
before sending it to us. (Please see our Writers' Guidelines for
additional details.)

III. Publication Rights. Once your article appears in Communities, we
own first North American Publishing Rights. This means your article
appears in Communities the first time it appears in North America. In
addition to appearing in Communities, your article may also appear on
our website or in future compilations. You retain all other rights to
it. If you'd like to use it elsewhere, you can, and we would
appreciate your using an attribution line saying, "This article
first appeared in Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture, (date);
for further information on Communities: communities.ic.org."

IV. Photos. If we publish your article, we want to accompany it with
compelling images that illustrate your subject. You know your subject
best, so we are appealing to you for images. If others in your
community or group like taking pictures, they might already have great
images to go with your article. If you would like to submit an article
but cannot supply photos, that's fine; however, please give us
plenty of advance notice so that if we use your article we can get an
illustrator. Please check http://communities.ic.org/submit.php or
email us for our full Photo Guidelines. We also appreciate an author
photo to accompany your short (several-line) author bio.

Thanks for your contributions!

Chris Roth
Editor, Communities
editor [at] ic.org

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Chris Roth
Editor, Communities
16 Dancing Rabbit Lane
Rutledge MO 63563
editor [at] ic.org
660-883-5557
communities.ic.org

for Communities advertising,
please contact Tanya Carwyn:
ads [at] ic.org
828-669-0997

for photos and layout,
please contact Yulia Zarubina:
layout [at] ic.org
910-617-6136