I decided to steer away from conventional topics such as fashion and lifestyle, into something more on Liberal Arts such as literature, art, and culture with an emphasis on social issues. I am deeply interested in leftist politics and feminism and decided to work with that in order to produce an eccentric piece i'll proud of.
My affinity with such issues came from the most interesting decades, the 60s and 70s, when the civil rights movement and leftist politics truly peaked.
Currently I have two ideas for the topic of my magazine, one is a solely feminist magazine that focuses on issue as they affect women, also I would include women artists featuring their work such as poems and art.
My other idea was to broaden it to more a leftist perspective on current social issues, such as classicism and racial injustice. The Democratic Socialist magazine is a great example
Good Inspirations of Feminist Magazines:
Dissent Magazine is a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas. Establishing itself as one of America’s leading intellectual journals in 1954, it has since published articles by Hannah Arendt, Norman Mailer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ellen Willis, Richard Wright, George Packer, and many others.
Bitch Media is a nonprofit, independent, feminist media organization dedicated to providing and encouraging an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream media and popular culture.
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, which started as a zine distributed out of the back of a station wagon in 1996.
"From a piece of a baby’s onesie, one woman imagines a banner. From the ragged scrap of a dress, another imagines a downtown protest. Using bits and pieces of fabric, these embroiderers construct elaborate scenes from their everyday lives and their country’s history. This is Colectivo Memorarte, a group of Chilean embroiderers dedicated to recording memory through art."
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