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Company Description

Welcome to Yuvoice: The Creators of Civic Engagement Media! We are an international majority-minority nonprofit organization that has developed the largest pro-democracy community engagement platform in the world. Our mission is to educate, inspire, and reward superheroes for creating micro and macro movements. We bring real friendships and honest stories back to social media and strive to eliminate bias and mindless content. Join us in making a tangible impact on the world!

Website: https://yuvoice.org/

Yuvoice is currently seeking submissions for our Mental Health section.

Submit your submission(s) directly to our website page: https://yuvoice.org/publish-with-us/

Goals and ambitions of the Mental Health Section of Yuvoice include the following:

● To provide emerging writers/artists the opportunity to be a part of a community by connecting and working with each other across the globe

● To contribute to the development of a healthy, safe community for neurodiversity

● To serve, empower, and advocate for the well-being of our diverse LGBTQ+, BIPOC, & BAME communities, giving them an opportunity to share their stories with the world

What We’re Looking For:

●     Personal narratives (1500 words)

○      In particular, we are looking for personal narratives that aim to prioritize and celebrate mental health and serve as a reflection of your personality and voice.

●     Intersections of Mental Health and Diversity (1500 words):

○      This section aims to highlight how issues of mental health and diversity intersect, overlap, confront, and reckon with each other through personal lived experiences.

○      The articles for this section would incorporate personal narratives with research-based writing. While these articles are meant to be informative, they are also meant to shed light on culture-specific experiences and issues regarding this focus.

○      Any research conducted must be from credible sources (e.g., scholarly and informative articles, personal narratives and experiences, interviews, etc.), grounded in factual information, and include personal experiences.

●     ILiveOn (800-1000 words)

○      This section, similar to the section on Personal Experiences/Stories, aims to highlight personal struggles with mental health issues, and how you’ve overcome them (or are in the process of overcoming them, in all its forms).

○      This section is unique in that we are currently open to written and visual formats. For image formats, we would like an accompanying passage that further explains the struggles that are being depicted in the material provided.

●     Resilience: Poetry (no more than 2 pages)

○      This section aims to highlight poetic expressions of international mental health issues.

Ultimately, we are looking for any piece that aims to centralize your experiences.

Please include a brief 50-100 word author bio written in third person and a brief summary of your work. The summary will be used for the purpose of the editors to better understand where you are coming from and the point you would like to get across. Both components should be in the same document. Along with your article and author bio be sure to:

- Specify the subsection you are submitting to (i.e. Personal stories, Intersections of mental health and diversity, #ILiveOn, Resilience: Poetry)

- Be sure to choose a compelling title that encapsulates your work.

- The submitted piece should be an original work of the writer and must not have been published before.

- The writer can submit multiple articles.

- In addition, given our commitment to inclusive publishing practices, we invite you to share your demographic information, including country, ethnicity, educational experiences, languages, identity, pronouns, etc. However, if you wish to remain anonymous and use a pen name, you are welcome to do so. Please leave a note for our editors.