On The Right Track Publication for the Cross-Regional Meeting
Call for Submissions & Terms of Reference
About the publication. Polycrisis, Multi-response is a collective publication coordinated by On The Right Track (OTRT), a cross-regional initiative of feminist and women’s funds that strengthens alliances between feminist, LGBTIQNB+ and human rights grassroots movements across Latin America and Europe.
In a context of democratic backsliding, rising inequality and the precarisation of life—conditions actively exploited by far-right and anti-rights actors—this publication seeks to document, connect and amplify the responses that movements are already building across territories.
The publication brings together contributions rooted in lived experience, political practice and collective reflection. It explores how overlapping crises—political, economic, ecological and social—are shaped by interconnected systems of power, including fundamentalisms, authoritarianism, extractivism and patriarchy, and how movements are resisting, caring, organising and imagining alternatives across regions.
At its core, this publication is grounded in an internationalist and transfeminist perspective: understanding that struggles are interconnected, and that responses to the polycrisis must also be woven across geographies, histories and movements.
The publication will consist of a series of contributions published online and compiled into a printed zine to be shared during and beyond the cross-regional meeting the initiative holds in September this year.
Objectives
- Make visible the wide-ranging impacts of fundamentalisms and far-right agendas across issues such as democracy, migration, racial justice, bodily autonomy and ecological struggles.
- Amplify feminist, queer, anti-racist and grassroots responses to the polycrisis, centering lived experience, affect, collective strategies and political imagination.
- Foster cross-regional dialogue and political learning between Latin America, Europe and other connected geographies.
- Document and share movement knowledge as a resource for resistance, care and collective action.
- Produce accessible, compelling and creative content that can circulate digitally and as a printed zine.
Call for submissions. Through the collective experience of OTRT’s working groups—on antiracism, sexual and reproductive rights, political violence, LGBTQIA+ rights, communications and collective care—it is clear that movements hold a vast and often under-recognised body of knowledge.
We are inviting contributions that help make this knowledge tangible: grounded in experience, rooted in territories and alive with political imagination.
We particularly welcome contributions that engage with:
- Feminist internationalism and cross-regional organising
- Anti-rights and far-right strategies (including global trends, narratives and funding flows)
- Democracy, authoritarianism and resistance
- Imperialism, extractivism and body–territory struggles
- Migration, racism and borders
- Sexual and reproductive rights and bodily autonomy
- LGBTQIA+ struggles across regions
- Practices of collective care, sustainability and acuerpamiento
- Movement narratives: how we communicate, mobilise and build beyond reaction
- Another world is already in the making: case studies, lived experiences and grassroots alternatives
(These themes are indicative, not exhaustive.)
Collective contributions & facilitation. We warmly encourage grassroots collectives, informal groups and movement spaces to submit collaborative pieces. Contributions do not need to be individual or authored in traditional ways; they can emerge from shared processes, conversations or collective reflection.
We also welcome the revisiting, adapting or recycling of existing materials—texts, artworks or fragments that resonate with the themes of this publication and can find new life in this space.
Feminist and women’s funds within OTRT, as well as partner organisations, can act as facilitators and bridges, accompanying these processes where needed: supporting collectives in shaping, translating, editing or bringing their contributions into being.
We understand this publication not only as a call for content, but as a collective process of articulation, where ideas, experiences and political imaginaries are nurtured and brought to life together.
Format and style
We welcome contributions full of soul and spirit.
Formats may include:
- Essays, articles or reflections
- Interviews or dialogues
- Letters, email exchanges or conversations
- Poetry or experimental writing
- Visual contributions (photography, collage, illustration, artwork)
- Hybrid or mixed formats
Contributions should aim to:
- Be accessible, non-academic and engaging
- Combine political analysis with lived experience or storytelling
- Avoid extractive or sensationalist narratives
- Center agency, resistance, care and imagination (not only crisis)
Length
- Written contributions: approx. 1,200–1,600 words (flexible depending on format)
- Shorter or visual contributions are very welcome
Languages
Submissions are welcome in:
- Spanish
- English
- Portuguese
- Other languages (with possibility of translation)
Visual elements
Contributors are encouraged to include or suggest:
- Images, illustrations or artworks (with credits and permissions)
- Quotes or fragments suitable for zine design
Editorial process. OTRT will accompany selected contributions through a light, collaborative editorial process, focused on clarity, accessibility and political coherence, while respecting each author’s voice and positionality. The team might reach to the grassroots working groups of the initiative for approval on the contents of their specific topics.
Rights and circulation. Authors retain authorship of their work.
By contributing, they agree to publication on OTRT platforms and inclusion in the printed zine, with full credit.
Timeline
- Deadline for submissions: July 20, 2026
- Publication: rolling basis, leading up to and following the cross-regional meeting
