ALT SWEET TOOTH ISSUE 2 BODY POLITIC SUBMISSIONS CLOSE NOV 30

ALT Who's in charge here? Do you wanna get out of here? Body Politic is the second issue of Sweet Tooth. It’s a space for poetry at the intersection of the political and the personal. Give us sensuality. Give us anger. disgust. seducTION. Tell us how you really feel. bite the hand that has its fingers in your mouth. Politics. Religion. Sex. We want party talk. We want to burn it down. We want you to wink when you hand us back our lighter. Body Politic will explore how we embody our beliefs, how we cannot be separated from our bodies, and how we must be. Creation or commodification? That is the capitalist question. We want feminist exhaustion. We want queer delirium. We want to treat our bodies as a science experiment and our communities as a body. We want you to get the hair out of the shower drain. We want poems about power and its perversions, we want you to ask yourself who’s screwing you. Give us your abject, your ecstatic, your unspeakable. Welcome to Body Politic.

ALT SUBMISSIONS OPEN OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 30 SEND 1-3 POEMS OR 1-3 PIECES OF VISUAL ART OR UP TO 2000 WORDS OF CREATIVE NONFICTION TO [email protected] PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK ACCEPTED. SPECIFY IF WORK HAS ALREADY APPEARED ELSEWHERE. ALL WORK SHOULD CONNECT TO THE PROMPT: BODY POLITIC

ALT PROMPTS: BBC - Jaboukie Young White // The Powers of Horror - Julia Kristeva // Closer - Nine Inch Nails // The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan // Government Hooker - Lady Gaga // Trans Girls Love Ketamine - Daphne DiFazio // disco tits - Tove Lo // Inflamatory Essays, “REPRESSING SEX URGES” - Jenny Holzer // Celebrity Skin - Hole // Beach Animals - Jenny Slate // Love It If We Made It - The 1975 // The Resurgence of the Monstrous Feminine - Hannah Williams //G.U.Y. - Lady Gaga // Sonnet for the Clove of Garlic Inside Me - Olivia Gatwood // Raw - Julia Ducornau