Margins On Fire!
Issue 11 European Alternatives Journal
The margins are not silent.
They disrupt. They speak. They communicate across many languages.
We write from here, from the contested edges of Europe. From a place where women, queer individuals, exiled voices, racialised lives, and precarious existences refuse to be sidelined. We are not seeking inclusion into the political spaces of yesterday; we are already establishing alternative spaces of belonging and meaning.
Transeuropa 2025 Les Marges en Feu took place in Paris in June 2025.
But this time the fire wasn’t only in the streets, it was in the stories, the wounds, the spells, the dance floors.
We spoke of cyber witches, healing rituals, workers’ revolts, anti-racist unlearning, and queer ecologies.
We dared to burn with joy.
This issue of the EA Journal wants to gather and map the ashes and the seeds.
To ask:
What does a Europe shaped by feminist resistance look like? How do we set systems of oppression on fire, and build something better from the ashes? How do the margins teach us new forms of collective power?
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We invite a wide range of contributions, from essays and investigations to testimonies, visual work, and political fiction.
Possible themes include (but are not limited to):
- Resisting backlash: feminist and queer responses to rising anti-gender politics across Europe
- Ritual and joy as resistance
- Marginalised parenthoods and struggles for family recognition at the European level
- Cyberfeminist resistance
- Anti-racist and decolonial practices of unlearning
- Empowerment against sexist violence
- Trans-inclusive and anti-racist healthcare
- Feminist and queer ecologies
- Feminist media strategies and collective storytelling
- Workers’ struggles
We are open to contributions (already published or not) in a wide range of forms and tones, including:
- Audio, video or multimedia proposals (to be published online)
- Analytical essays (1,500–3,000 words)
- Investigative or journalistic writing
- Personal or collective testimonies
- Fiction, letters, or poetic formats
- Visual storytelling, graphic contributions or collage
Submission Guidelines
To submit your idea, please follow the guidelines here.
Deadline: 25 July 2025
For any questions or to discuss an idea before submitting, contact the editors:
Marta Cillero Manzano – m.cillero@euroalter.com
Noemi Pittalà – n.pittala@euroalter.com
Billie Dibb – b.dibb@euroalter.com
Final contributions may be translated into English and/or French for publication, and we are happy to receive proposals in other languages.
Please note: this is a non-commercial publication and we are unfortunately unable to offer payment for contributions.
About the EA Journal
The EA journal is a space to imagine alternatives beyond the nation-state. It contains think-pieces, articles, artistic and cultural contributions, podcasts, videos and more on a broad range of topics and themes spanning democracy, culture, equality, decolonisation, social movement organising and more. In 2023, we relaunched the European Alternatives journal. First published in 2007, the journal has long been a space to map out visions, ideas and pathways for an alternative, open and radically more democratic Europe.