A Magazine For & By Childless Women

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Want to share your opinion, ideas, expertise with the rest of the world? Well, you came to the right place – we’re looking for thought-provoking perspectives that opens conversations and breaks convention from women who are childless/childfree not by choice or by circumstance across continents. Each print issue of Tutum Journal will interrogate one word which will run as a theme through our regular features, profiles, Q&As, reviews, how-tos, opinion pieces, and poetry. 

Many of our contributors leverage their exposure on Tutum Journal to promote their personal brand, company, and work. All writers provide an author bio that will appear below your article, where you can include your company.

You take enormous effort to share your expertise in a story. It really matters that your story should be presented in front of the right audience. Through Tutum Journal you can reach out to childless not by choice readers from 100+ countries. 

Spring 'Wellbeing' Issue: 

This isn't your typical well-being issue. It will be about destigmatizing mental health in our community. About breaking the patriarchal mold. About considering the emotional and psychological impacts of involuntary childlessness. We're identifying what to explore to reset and renew. 

Submission Deadline: December 21, 2022

Summer 'Legacy' Issue: 

Do you feel sad, guilty, or content about the existential implications of not having offspring? Do you believe that your family name, traditions, and heirlooms end with you? Have you found ways to lessen the pain or create a legacy in a new way? When we say legacy, we mean ancestry, present, and hereafter. We mean our roots are just the beginning. In this issue, we are focusing on what "legacy" means to our community, be it the past (the legacy we carry from another), the present (the legacy we create by how we live today) or the future (how we want to be remembered).⁠ 

Submission Deadline: March 21, 2023

Fall 'Body' Issue: 

How do you really feel about your bodies? What is hidden in our culture’s silence around women’s bodies and permanent infertility? Do you feel like your body let you down? Do you feel liberated? We want to tap into our network of health, beauty, sex, and nutrition experts for advice. We want an honest portrayal of childless women’s physical and sexual experiences, and the effects of infertility, fertility treatments, post-hysterectomy, menopause, heavy painful periods, or another circumstance. 

Submission Deadline: July 3, 2023

Winter 'Relationships' Issue:

Human existence is akin to togetherness marked by association with people, other forms of life and nature. We are wired with invisible bonds of relationships, and our emotions and feelings determine how we behave with ourselves and others. Relationships are the magical yarns that weave and interlock us with family, friends, environment, animals, food, objects and even ourselves. What forms of relationship give your day-to-day life meaning? How would you define your relationship with family, friends, animals, food, or yourself? These can be relations that are full of happiness or marked by the subtler complexities that a relationship could generate. 

Submission Deadline: September 12, 2023

What to include:

*Articles should be no more than 500 to 1,800 words. Poetry no more than 400 words.

* Photo of yourself (optional)

* Short bio (sample: Jobi Tyson (@jobityson) is a sociocultural researcher, wellbeing expert, and marketing coach, and the founder of Tutum Global, based in the United States. tutumglobal.com)

𝙴𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕 𝚞𝚜 your pitch or submission in Word format to share your personal narrative or expert advice. 

Open submissions

* Global Village: Contribute your first-person article about life for a childless woman in different places and cultures: 

Word format, 275 – 750 words, submit photo(s).

* Ask A Therapist:  Do you want advice from a therapist or wellness professional? Submit your question which may be chosen for an upcoming issue. 

* Herstory: Contribute your article about an influential or inspiring childless woman from history: Word format, 500 – 1,000 words.

* Ideas Please: Your ideas on what Tutum Journal should feature next.

Tutum Journal reserves the right to edit articles for length and content, and change title. Please submit only unpublished, non-fiction, poetry, or subject expert articles.