Bossy

ANU’s online and print intersectional feminist publication. Check out our online publication at bossymag.com!

Bossy is ANU’s intersectional feminist publication, with online and print platforms, which strives to empower contributors and educate the community. Bossy was founded in 2015 as a branch of the ANU Women’s Department and is created on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. We accept submissions from ANU students, staff members, and alumni who are women, femme-aligned, non-binary, and/or genderqueer. Bossy is affiliated with the ANU Women's Department.

28/07/2025

Bossy Magazine has an exciting paid opportunity for all artists of the ANU! We are beginning our search for an incredible design to grace the cover of our upcoming print edition, Ouroboros.

Edition eleven, Ouroboros, is an exploration of our consumption as well as the many cycles that we experience in our lives. It is a Greek word that means 'tail-devourer', and it refers to an ancient symbol of a snake or dragon eating its own tail. This theme hopes to encourage the community to reflect upon their own consumption as well as the consumption practices within our society. Our theme also hopes to delve into the never-ending cycles that are present in everyone's lives.

As the ANU Women's Department's intersectional feminist magazine, Bossy is committed to uplifting marginalised voices. As such, we strongly encourage LGBTQI+ and BIPOC artists to apply for this opportunity.

This will be a paid position and is an exciting opportunity to see your design printed and in the hands of hundreds of people across Canberra! If you are interested, please follow the link below for more information and to apply. The deadline for applications is FRIDAY 15th AUGUST (Friday Week 4).

https://forms.gle/cXLuvYUC2q6MvZt67

11/07/2025

Missed joining up at the beginning of the year? Good news, Bossy still has some positions available!!! No prior experience is necessary as we provide training (and snacks!) to our team members. Please reach out if you are interested or you have any questions via our facebook or instagram messages or our gmail.

18/03/2025

Thought you missed out on getting involved in student media this semester? Think again!

Bossy is still looking for a Senior Art & Design Sub-Editor and Content Sub-Editors. If you are interested, make sure to scan our QR code or check out the links here.

Content Sub-Editor: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctQ7R-3wLlQlXqNRyseQ0qiQC-bsKefDuV7br07YiIK0vBgQ/viewform

Senior Art & Design Sub-Editor: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWWgYEnhHUeDwnJefy0OvuZSD7uSKea5QI3w-BjUpB-SpV_g/viewform

If you have any questions or access needs we should be made aware of please reach out to us at [email protected]

Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis so get in quick!

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26/02/2025

Exciting news!
Bossy Magazine is opening applications for our 2025 team! Bossy is a great way to be involved in campus activity, and to uplift voices within the ANU community. We would love for you to be involved!

Applications are open for our sub-editor team roles in content and art and design. We have also opened applications for the role of social media manager. Applications for senior art and design sub-editors have reopened as we have not yet filled these positions. Details of all these roles, requirements and eligibility are listed in application forms. which can be found in the link in our bio!

Applications close at midnight on the 7th of March 2025. Applicants will be informed of whether or not they have been selected by the 10th of March 2025.

Social Media Manager
https://forms.gle/Z181ScQbPpDgoG5t7
Content Sub-Editor
https://forms.gle/PvZXjT8WATUpW7sp6
Senior Art & Design Sub-Editor
https://forms.gle/Np7ES3Vm8Uzf6PBEA
Art & Design Sub-Editor
https://forms.gle/uPNMQZfPTPMfV1cP8

29/01/2025

EDITORIAL TEAM APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!!!!

Apply now for the Bossy editorial team 2025! Applications are open for the roles of Content Editor (1 position), Senior Content Sub-Editors (2 positions), Art Editor (1 position), Senior Art Sub-Editor (2 positions), Design Editor (1 position) and Senior Design Sub-Editor (2 positions).

Bossy is an integral part of the ANU community, as the Women’s Department feminist publication. If you are interested in an editorial position, please apply! Message us or comment with any questions.

Applications close Wednesday 5th of February. Offers will be sent on Thursday 6th of February. All information regarding the roles can be found in the application form.

We are additionally sorry about the delay in commencing our application process this year, but excited to read your applications 💜

Bossy Content Editor 2025 Application
https://forms.gle/W55SudQbH7Mtof3n9

Bossy Senior Content Sub-Editor 2025 Application
https://forms.gle/NnQRTwZMfDHJtE1h7

Bossy Design Editor 2025 Application
https://forms.gle/hP4cZZ3ntDG2r7mS7

Bossy Senior Design Sub-Editor 2025 Application
https://forms.gle/qP4jqSK9zSQfNwW59

Bossy Art Editor 2025 Application
https://forms.gle/c1gpus4xiExLRkFXA

Bossy Art Sub-Editor 2025 Application
https://forms.gle/u8iPdcr9esNuKUMk9

22/11/2024

Bossy Magazine’s Launch Party for our tenth edition, Metamorphosis, will be held on Thursday the 28th of November at 5pm! Please join us to celebrate with live music, great food and for a first look at our gorgeous free magazine 💜

26/08/2024

ONLINE NOW! Have you checked out Bossy’s most recent article? “Greta Gerwig’s Barbie – Not My Cup of Tea and That’s Ok” writes Eva Gilchrist Loxley.

Read it at bossymag.com now!

🎨 Graphic by Aiyana Mullens

01/08/2024

Hi, lovely contributors!

I hope everyone’s semester 2 has started well. This is just a quick post to say that our final submission deadline date for all content-related pieces for our Metamorphosis edition is Monday, August 12th, at 11:59 p.m. If you were hoping to be published in this year’s print, now is your final chance to reach out to us. Feel free to PM us or email [email protected]. ❤️❤️❤️ [red love hearts]

28/07/2024

Bossy Magazine has an exciting paid opportunity for artists of the ANU! As the semester starts up again, we are beginning our search for an incredible design to grace the cover of our upcoming print edition, Metamorphosis.

Edition ten, Metamorphosis, is about transforming or changing shape. It describes how a caterpillar can change and adapt to eventually form a butterfly - a suitable metaphor to indicate the transformation we make every day as people. This theme will encourage the community to delve deeper into self-discovery and examine how we each have changed and evolved as people, the motivations for this, and what it says about us on the journey we take through our lives. As it is our tenth edition, we also want to explore how Bossy has helped people in our ANU community transform over time and become the successful organisation we are today.

Change and adaptation have allowed our society today to progress. However, we can become stagnant in our fight for justice, acceptance and diversity when looking at what has been done rather than what still needs to be done. As such, we strongly encourage LGBTQI+ and BIPOC artists to apply for this opportunity.

This is a paid gig and will be an exciting opportunity to see your printed design in hundreds of hands across Canberra! If you are interested, please follow the link below for more information and to apply. The deadline for applications is FRIDAY 16TH AUGUST.

https://forms.gle/3zyWgQGbYh12PiCr8

30/06/2024

Exciting news! This year, we are working with the Gender Institute to produce our print magazine. Because of this, we are reinstating our Bite-Sized Thesis program, which was included in our 2017 edition! This involves working with ANU students to publish a bite-sized version (around 3000 words) of their thesis work. If you would be interested in publishing your scholarly work and having it featured in our Metamorphosis edition, please email us via mailto:[email protected] or PM/DM us 📕📗📘📙📒📚 [Book emojis]

🎨 Graphic by Caitlin Barkman

07/06/2024

ONLINE NOW! Make sure to check out these articles from past editions at bossymag.com

💙 Vicarious Trauma: The Unintended Consequence of Doing Feminist Research by Arushi Ganguly
💛 Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Give Up on True Crime: Hope in Intersectionality Moving Forward by Heyma Nahar
🧡 Prime Time by Sydney Lang
❤️ True Love by Aveline Yang
🩷 Of Rusted Bikes and the D***o Under the Bed by Anonymous

🎨 Accompanying artwork by Sabrina Tse, Hengjia Liu, Alexandra Enache, Suhani Kapadia, and Chloe Davison

16/05/2024

AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ON OUR 10TH PRINT EDITION, METAMORPHOSIS!

Bossy Magazine is re-opening applications for our 2024 team! Bossy is a great way to be involved in campus activity, and to uplift voices within the ANU community. We would love for you to be involved!

We have Content Sub-Editor positions to source written pieces (opinion, memoir, interview, review, satire & creative), Art Sub-Editor positions to assist in sourcing art, and Design Sub-Editor positions to create the visuals! All descriptions and requirements are listed in the application forms.

Applications are open to any current student of the ANU who is a woman, non-binary, gender fluid, or benefits from the services of the ANU Women’s Department. As an intersectional feminist magazine, Bossy is committed to having a team that is representative of many students and their experiences and backgrounds. We are especially committed to increasing the number of BIPOC students on our team.

Given that it is Week 11, we understand that life is a bit crazy at the moment for most of us. So we are not setting a strict deadline for applications, but please fill out the forms if you are interested as soon as possible as we are currently working on sourcing articles for print, an amazing experience to be part of :)

If you have any questions please reach out to us through Facebook message or email [email protected]

CONTENT SUB-EDITOR
https://forms.gle/uUynmE3nqdWa9ULs8
DESIGN SUB-EDITOR
https://forms.gle/N38YdNH6ruhH6zeZA
ART SUB-EDITOR
https://forms.gle/DPTEypCtdAcgqWjM6

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About us

Bossy is a medium for change, a platform for marginalised voices, a creative space, and full of opportunities and collaboration.

We publish content about everything — you would be amazed at the breadth of topics our content explores — in all the styles of writing you could imagine: reviews, poetry, long-form fiction, interviews, memoirs, satire, open letters, opinion pieces, visuals, and the list goes on.

We accept submissions from women-identifying, femme-aligned, non-binary and genderqueer ANU students, staff members and alumna. Though we only accept submissions from a select contributor base, we produce content for everyone.

When sourcing content, however, we always have the following aims in sight.

To shed light on the realities that marginalised members of our community face each and every day, especially those who are Indigenous, disabled, intersex, transgender, gender diverse, international students, people of colour or of a low socio-economic status.

To create a space where our contributors can speak loudly, proudly and without apology.

To publish content that is different, interesting and relevant for all our readers.

To educate as many people we can about intersectionality and intersectional feminism.

To advocate for and discuss feminist aims for equality.

Bossy is managed, created, printed and distributed on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Bossy was founded in 2015 as a branch of the ANU Women’s Department (ANUWD) and is managed by undergraduate and postgraduate ANU students.

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