If anyone in our community of Baton Rouge is interested in submitting a post to our blog, please see below for our submission guidelines:
All guest posts must be related to STAR’s mission and/or vision.
Mission: To provide support, education and advocacy to empower all individuals and families affected by sexual trauma, and engage and mobilize the community to prevent sexual trauma.
Vision: To build a healthy community free from oppression and sexual trauma.
These topics can range anywhere from healthy sexuality, male engagement, barriers to reporting, victim blaming, rape myths, current events surrounding sexual assault or sexual trauma, gender-based violence, etc.
All guest posts must be grammatically correct and free of spelling errors.
No guest posts may be self-promotional or include marketing links.
All guest posts may include a 2-3 sentence author bio, which will be published at the end of the guest post. 1-2 links to the author’s website, blog or other branded online destination may be included in the bio.
All guest posts must be original. Any unoriginal content should be set apart by quotes or indention, as well as cited or link to its source.
We suggest that all blog posts be kept to a 1000 word maximum but we may make special exceptions for longer lengths.
We reserve the right to edit submitted content, however we will not publish without the approval of the author.
Submissions may also include vlogs.
Guest post submission is not a guarantee of publication.
Please e-mail all submissions to submissions@brstar.org.