An online thematic bi-annual magazine that platforms anti-caste writing and multimedia work.

Fourteen Magazine was built to platform creative work that speaks to the diversity of thought and multiplicity of lived experience in the anti-caste movement. We are committed to bringing forth narratives and discourse forged within resistance and rooted in anti-caste thought, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of what that might mean. We intend to put out work that is generative - in that it leads to more ways of thinking about the mechanisms of structural oppression, seeks to build solidarities, and creates new framing for anti-caste work.

We are looking for interdisciplinary pieces that experiment with both form and subject matter, which at their core challenge caste, class and gender-based power structures. Each thematic issue will have an open call as well as commissioned pieces, and the full issue will be freely available to read on the website. 

Fourteen Magazine is an alternative media platform that seeks to remain free of the vested interests of dominant castes. Our working team is composed entirely of Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi writers and artists.

Fourteen Magazine is produced by Metta Knowledge Lab, a project of Women’s Research and Action Group (WRAG).

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<div>At the moment of writing this open call, a water crisis unfolds across India, as the monsoons arrive with considerable delay. Year after year, water shortages affect most major cities, including Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai, exposing the growing precarity of access to one of life’s most essential resources. Beyond the country’s urban centres however, the crisis rarely makes the news. Severe water scarcity hits rural regions of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Telangana every summer. Amidst this worsening crisis, announcements of a new AI data centre in Visakhapatnam, primarily on land avarna communities fought hard to avail, exposes the government’s disregard for people, and the water burdens being borne locally in order to sustain global capitalist expansion. </div><div><br></div><div>In this issue, we seek to explore water as a site of inquiry into caste dynamics, ecological asymmetries, and everyday negotiations of power. We invite pitches that look at water from various perspectives — as a life-giving substance, a contested resource, and a living measure and mirror to human relations.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Possible topics include, but are not limited to:</b></div><div><ul><li>Ethnographies of water and waterways</li><li>Urban water management and caste</li><li>Water, borders and conflict</li><li>Drought, famine, floods: asymmetry and climate vulnerability</li><li>Fishing, erosion, coastal communities</li><li>Structure of a village, caste-based access to water sources</li><li>Symbolism and ritualisation of water in caste</li><li>Global capitalism, water and extraction</li><li>Water ecologies, human-water relationships</li><li>Indigenous knowledge systems and practices around water</li></ul></div><b><div><b><br></b></div>What are we looking for?</b><div><ul><li>Ethnographic writing, articles, photo essays, personal essays, and other forms of non-fiction that speak to the theme from different perspectives, geographies and disciplines. We also welcome multimedia submissions, writing that uses previously collected data to write a new piece, or previously unreleased work that you think fits the topic.</li><li><span style="color: rgb(20 20 20/var(--tw-text-opacity,1));">We prefer previously unreleased work, but are also open to accepting previously released work as long as the authors own the copyright and provide appropriate attribution.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(20 20 20/var(--tw-text-opacity,1));">The final piece should be 1500-2500 words long.</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

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