"To ask questions about Aspasia's life is to ask questions about half of humanity."
This is an online journal created and edited by Gertrude And. Each publication highlights a single author's work. Aspasiology neither promotes any one aesthetic nor seeks to develop any movement of style. Rather, Aspasiology is interested in creating a community that gives women writers their due attention while acknowledging the differences of our thought processes. After featured writers are selected and submit work, several writers who are part of a pool of responding writers are then asked to respond to the submitted work which is published alongside. Responses can vary in form. The featured author can submit several pieces as well as any type of writing they wish for publication. What the featured writer publishes once they are selected, is 100% up to her. This is because Gertrude is not interested in displaying her own personal aesthetic but rather the variety of our thoughts. A response writer should consider their submission to be an opportunity to publish original work. |
Aspasia was a "dog-eyed concubine," a whore, started the Peloponnesian war and was mother to a bastard.
In the picture above, she is listening to Socrates say what she just said 5 minutes before. Everything about her is suspicious.
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How to be a part of this great study: |
Contact the editor and let her know if you'd like to be considered for a current study (featured writer), part of the response pool, or both. Aspasiology is the study of all and any type of person identifying as a woman or as genderqueer, for which the featured writer section is mainly reserved. All genders are welcome for the response pool. Responses can be prose, poetry, hybrid, whatever! Responses, however, should be complete pieces reflecting that you have taken time with the featured writer's work and not be a general comment about the writer or written in a blurb fashion. Responses should be considered just as much an opportunity to publish original work as the featured work is. Aspasiology also publishes reviews of chapbooks and books. Contact me below with a description of yourself, your work, your interest in participation as well as a few samples of your work and/or a review of a chapbook or book. We will go from there.
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