Lacuna is an online Magazine published by the Centre for Human Rights in Practice which challenges indifference to suffering and promotes human rights. Its aim is to fill the gap between the short-term immediacy of daily journalism and long-term academic analysis.

Protest has been a strong theme of the magazine from its first edition.

Lacuna is now revisiting the theme of protest and will be publishing a Special Issue on this theme in February 2016. We are now seeking submissions, with a closing date of December 31st 2015.

All forms of writing and visual art will be considered: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, animation and photography. You may wish to investigate a particular instance of protest, to provide commentary, reportage or expert analysis of a protest-related theme. Or you may wish to review a book, a film, a piece of music, art or theatre connected to protest.

We are interested in exploring the diverse spectrum of forms of protest: boycotts; marches; strikes;
sit ins; direct actions; online petitions; songs; stories and many more. What makes protests in all of these forms enticing, legitimate, rewarding, fruitful...? What are the wrongs that provoke our anger and how do we take action in response? We are particularly interested in work that seeks to uncover peoples' motivations forprotesting, what they seek to achieve by protesting, and/or the outcomes of their actions.

Read the full call HERE