[Commlist] Call for Papers: Creative Co-Resilience and Black Flourishing, Special Issue of RUBIX Journal

Call for Papers: Creative Co-Resilience and Black Flourishing, Special 
Issue of RUBIX Journal: Abstracts due June 30, 2026

Guest Editors:

Dr. Adesoji Babalola, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Miranda Campbell, Toronto Metropolitan University

Invocation by Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Queen’s University

Summation by Ashley Jane Lewis, Toronto Metropolitan University

What ways of knowing, living, and transforming emerge through creative 
practices in Black contexts, particularly those influenced by Black ways 
of being and scholarships across the arts, creative industries, health 
sciences, communication, education, and related fields?  How do these 
practices invoke creative (co-)resilience, sustain collective life, and 
open up opportunities for Black flourishing?

“Creative Co-Resilience and Black Flourishing” is a special issue of 
RUBIX Journal <https://www.torontomu.ca/rubix/>that welcomes broad-range 
of submissions which examine how artistic and imaginative work across 
Black contexts in the health sciences, literary studies, education, 
communication, creative industries, and associated disciplines cultivate 
innovative practices of care, knowledge-making, and collective 
transformation.

Importantly, we invite contributions that engage Black scholarship 
through health, creative writings, music, personal narratives, dance, 
and other creative practices, and highlight how these practices foster 
shared strength, promote relational infrastructure, and imagine and 
enact pathways toward Black flourishing. Artistic interventions (e.g. 
poems, creative non-fiction, photo essays, textiles, visual art works, 
music, and so on), alongside academic articles, are very welcome.

This special issue stems from “Black Scholars in Dialogue” organised by 
the Black Scholarship Institute and the Creative School at TMU on the 
theme of “Creative Co-resilience and Black Flourishing”, but our call 
for papers to the special issue of RUBIX Journal is open to all as we 
encourage submissions from all disciplines and regions. We invite papers 
that explore the dynamics, capacities, and potentialities of 
co-resilience across fields through critical and interdisciplinary 
engagements.

RUBIX is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to fostering 
dynamic, multidirectional dialogue that extends beyond conventional 
boundaries of academic publishing, with no APCs. It provides a platform 
for diverse forms of creative and emerging scholarship, including 
academic articles, poetry, experimental writing combining text and 
image, sound-based works, photography, photo essays, visual art, and 
video. All submissions, irrespective of medium or format, undergo a 
rigorous peer-review process. We particularly encourage creative and 
critical explorations in arts, creative industries, health sciences, 
education, communication and related areas, including both theoretical 
and practice-led work. Emerging scholars and graduate students are 
especially invited to contribute to this special issue.

General Submission Guidelines

·       Title

·       Abstract (250-300 words), Keywords (5-10)

·       Papers should be between 4,000-6,000 words excluding citations; 
alternative format submissions welcome

·       MLA style guidelines

For inquiries, contact Dr. Adesoji Babalola 
((adesoji.babalola /at/ torontomu.ca) <mailto:(adesoji.babalola /at/ torontomu.ca)>) 
and Dr. Miranda Campbell ((miranda.campbell /at/ torontomu.ca) 
<mailto:(miranda.campbell /at/ torontomu.ca)>).

_Timeline_

Abstracts due: June 30, 2026

Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2026

Full paper due: September 30, 2026

Editorial review and feedback from Special Issue Journal Editors: Fall 2026

Revised Article due by November 1, 2026

External Peer Review: Winter 2027

Anticipated publication date: Spring 2027

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