Cesca Janece is Founder and Editor of Eve in Hand, an arts, literature, and culture publication that challenges conventions about gender and the erotic.

Eve in Hand launched Thanksgiving Day 2007, and titillates with diversity and range, comprised of the voices that speak, whisper, shout, and sigh in the growing dialogue about sex in the world. It steadfastly maintains among its goals the positive representation of and impact upon women.



Mission Statement:

Eve in Hand seeks to promote an inclusive sexuality as a deterrent to non-consensual sexual violence, and to advance equality for all people, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. By opening doors to authentic sex using literature, art, music, and culture, and by serving as one forum for political activism, we strive to present the barest function of sex; as a tool for greater creativity, understanding of, and pleasure derived from activities that sustain life.

We believe...

• That a culture that calls for sexual abstinence places responsibility for a false morality upon girls and women while making them passive agents in sexual dynamics.
  
  
• That a multi-gendered perspective of sexuality is not only authentic, but will bring about a decline in violence against girls, women, and others.
  
  
• That a sexual culture that values volition in an inclusive sensuality demands responsibility, and creates a sustainable erotic life and world.

Eve in Hand Contributor Guidelines

Voyeur, exhibitionist…

Scopophilia, gaze…

Artists and academics have long analyzed and debated the relationship between spectator and subject in visual art. Traditionally, Western art has depicted men as active viewers, and woman as passive subject, a dynamic that continues to pervade contemporary advertising. The viewer is endowed with a privileged perspective, a dynamic known as “gaze.” While the interaction is more complex than this brief description, for these guideline purposes, suffice it to say that “gaze” is important to us because Eve in Hand strives to challenge dominant structures and processes of power. We also look beyond traditional representations of those structures and processes because first, they are inauthentic, and second, they perpetuate constructs that inhibit personal and societal fulfillment and well-being.

While creating one forum for political activism is one goal of Eve in Hand, we strive to focus more on promoting divergent paradigms than by critiquing existing ones. Toward achieving this goal, there are almost infinite possibilities, so we offer to artists and writers the following identity statement:

1. Eve in Hand is a Feminist publication largely, though not exclusively informed by Individualist Feminism, which seeks the emancipation of all people.
   
   
2. Eve in Hand maintains as its primary goal the positive representation of women and girls. While we play, love, and labor to represent and support all people regardless of gender or sexual orientation, we believe that a culture that supports and promotes women and girls will demonstrate from its core to its periphery encouragement of, and opportunity to all people.

When submitting work of any medium, please be aware that with respect to women, Eve in Hand encourages contributions that do not rely upon conventional gender assumptions. We look upon simplistic gender role reversal as a different bearer of the same coin.

Examples of obsolete representation of women are those in which their identities are negated, such as photographs framed to present subjects as headless, etc.

Women are active. Girls are agents of change. We believe action more accurately reflects our lives than recumbent poses exclusively.



Eve in Hand

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