Grindr is the world’s largest network for gay, bi, trans, and queer adults. They are inviting writers who can capture Grindr’s place in the world, and want bold, personal takes and think pieces on culture, relationships, and sex. They pay based on factors like length, depth, and experience level. To pitch them, refer to this page.
Refinery29’s mission is to help women see, feel, and claim their power. Their Canadian edition aims to shine a spotlight on the Canadian stories and issues that resonate with their Gen-Z and millennial audience. They publish everything from personal essays to reported trend pieces to features on race, reproductive rights, and pop culture. According to their pitch guide, they typically pay $150 for short market roundups and $350 for a thorough news explainer with interviews. Personal essays and shorter reported articles start at $350 and increase from there, depending on the piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
Black Ballad is a UK based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women. They only commission those with the lived experience of being a Black woman, Black transwoman or Black non-binary person to achieve their mission and vision. They cover a range of topics from politics and pop culture through to beauty, careers, relationships and family life which explore the multi-faceted nuances of Blackness. All writers are paid. To learn more, refer to this page.
Good Tape is a magazine and creative studio based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. They aim to elevate both cultural and critical coverage of the podcast industry. According to their pitch information, rates for digital starts at $0.30/word and $0.50/word for print, both of which informs a flat fee. To learn more, refer to the bottom of their main page.
The Cut publishes stories that address their readers’ lives head-on, with generous wit, honesty, and power. They are in a dynamic conversation with women about the issues that matter to them most — politics, feminism, work, money, relationships, mental health, fashion, and issues relating to equality — and they're always looking for ideas that add to that conversation. They are looking smart, generous, funny writing for their four verticals: POWER, SELF, STYLE, and CULTURE. According to their guidelines, they pay $500 minimum for essays and columns (1,000–1,500 words) and $600 minimum for features (1,500–2,000) words. To learn more, refer to this page.
FlickeringMyth.com is a movie and pop culture website with news, reviews, interviews, features and opinions across the worlds of film, TV, comic books, video games, toys and collectibles and more. They are always open to freelance contributions and pitches, and are looking for opinion pieces, list-based articles, recurring columns and other feature pieces. They occasionally have openings for reviews as well. Pay rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.
TheReviewGeek writes film, TV, books, games, music and videogame reviews. They are looking for writers as passionate about media as they are. Pay rates are not mentioned, but they mention working on a pay-per-post basis. To learn more, refer to this page.
DADDY Magazine is a Black-owned, Berlin-based publication that centres underrepresented communities by giving their contributors the freedom to tell their stories, their way. To pitch them, refer to this page.
Transitions (formerly Transitions Online) is a nonprofit media organization based in Prague that focuses on in-depth journalism and media development across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. They cover topics such as politics, society, environment, and media freedom, often highlighting underreported stories from the region. To send them a pitch, refer to their submission guidelines.
Unwinnable is a website and digital magazine, founded in 2010 to provide a different kind of cultural criticism. They are looking for stories about comics, movies, TV shows, tabletop games, music. According to their pitch guide, they pay up to $150 for stories (1,500 words), $10 to $25 for essays (500 words and 375 words respectively), and $15 for short stories (1000 words). To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines.