Confidentiality, NDA, Views Notice and Disclaimer
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VIEWS NOTICE and DISCLAIMER
The content made available in the following project is Contributor Content, and all copyright remains with the individual Author or Artist. Type A Media does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Contributor Content made available. The statements, opinions, representations, claims, or any information contained in any Contributor Content are solely the opinion and artistic expression of the Contributor submitting such Contributor Content, and do not reflect the opinions or views of Type A Media or its owner, A. A. Parr, or any staff, volunteers or mentors; or any of its affiliates, or any of their respective owners, managers, officers, employees, agents or representatives.
We are proud to offer a #saferLIT platform. As such, we will not consider work that is ableist, misogynistic, queer-phobic or racist, or work that seeks to harm, humiliate or demean. If we receive work from a writer or artist that demonstrates a pattern of any bigotry or intent to cause harm, we will no longer accept submissions from that individual. If you feel that work we are considering fits that criteria, or that any writer or artist we are considering does not align with our ethos, it is your responsibility to contact us to discuss your concerns, and we commit to investigating and taking action with regards to any such claims. We listen and we stand by our community members, especially those most vulnerable.
For centuries, we have lived, worked, loved, struggled, and hoped in these remote and often unforgiving Northern Ontario landscapes. Our predecessors have faced unimaginable burdens, impossible odds, and unpredictable futures in the hopes of creating a legacy. Each journeyer has navigated through rocky terrain, wind-sculpted forests, and cold water rapids, seeking to forge a connection with both the people who have made the north their home, as well as with that great gorgeous land itself.
Today, we are faced with a different sort of isolation – one which has been enforced upon us, causing us to take a step back from our once-comfortable routines to scrutinise our systems and ourselves. Though we are separate, we are now being called to come together to face the truths of our past missteps, misdeeds, mistrusts and misfortunes. We have the opportunity to use this insight to break down dysfunctional systems; to stand up and speak out against systemic injustices; to build new systems, new realities, and new communities based on just reform, considered appreciations of equality within an anti-oppression framework, and true inclusivity and accessibility for all.
‘Isolated Together’ will be a response to these critical questions we must all ask ourselves aloud. It will be an anthology of lived experiences, of anecdotes and insight, of exploration and accountability, of acknowledgment and affirmation. It will be an opportunity for you to share your stories of contemporary life in the time of a global pandemic – in prose, poetry, and visual art or any combination thereof.
“With this work,” explains Managing Director and Publisher A. A. Parr, “we’re setting out to document a time in a place in history, but we’re also looking to widen the lens through which we view our own communities – we are hoping to connect as much as to discern, to relate as much as to respond, and to extend compassion as much as to express our individual and collective anguish.”
“From our frontline experiences as essential workers, to our private lives in quarantine, we have all begun the creation of a life unprecedented, much as our predecessors have throughout the ages. They say that history is written by the victors, but it is also written by those who have the luxury of speaking up – who have the opportunity to be heard. We believe that your stories deserve to be heard, that future generations will most benefit from your personal victories, and we are taking action to provide the necessary platform for you to stand upon. This is our opportunity to co-create a new, inclusive community.”