Write with Us!

The Fashion Studies Journal (FSJ) is an activist-oriented online home for members of the global fashion studies community to share and discuss fashion within a rapidly evolving world. More than just another fashion magazine, blog, or website, we are here to cultivate new ways of thinking about – and being involved in – the system of fashion, and aim to carve out a space for new voices to speak about how fashion is taught, researched, conceptualized, and preserved.

While we support topics that investigate the many facets of fashionable embodiment, production, and mediation, we are always looking for new content that amplifies marginalized voices and experiences, approaches fashion scholarship from alternative and innovative angles (e.g., practice-based scholarship, critical design, etc.), and foregrounds labor issues in the fashion industry and academia. We aim to disturb the canons of traditional academic writing, and welcome you to write with us.

Please send pitches of no more than 100 words using the form below. Pitches are accepted on a rolling basis, and reviewed monthly by our editorial board.  

Looking for some inspiration? Here are some recently published articles that reflect our renewed mission to prioritize perspectives that are equitable, feminist, queer, and actively antiracist:

• Fashion and Motherhood Issue, Edited by Laura Snelgrove

• Fashion as Collective Action by Erique Zhang

• Op-Ed: Designing our Futures - Fashioning Small Markets by Jonah Solomon

• Sacrifice and Scarcity: The Realities of Museum Work by Callie O’Connor

• Making it Work: Kim Jenkins and The Fashion and Race Database by Laura Snelgrove

• The Material is the Message: Or, US Democrats in Kente Cloth and the System of Fashion by Osman Nemli

• Dressing for Protest: The Abortion Movement in Buenos Aires by Ismelka Gomez

• More Than Sight: Embodying Blindness at Dialogue in the Dark by Julie Macindoe

• The Uncertainties of Faculty Life During a Pandemic by Anthony Palliparambil, Jr.