MISSION
Make/shift magazine creates and documents contemporary feminist culture and action by publishing journalism, critical analysis, and visual and text art. Made by an editorial collective committed to antiracist, transnational, and queer perspectives, make/shift embraces the multiple and shifting identities of feminist communities. We know there’s exciting work being done in various spaces and forms by people seriously and playfully resisting and creating alternatives to systematic oppression. Make/shift exists to represent, participate in, critique, provoke, and inspire more of that good work.
WHO WE ARE
Make/shift is made by a diverse, international community of feminist writers, artists, academics, and activists.
EDITORIAL/PUBLISHING COLLECTIVE
Jessica Hoffmann is a freelance writer/editor and activist. She has contributed to numerous publications, including ColorLines, Kitchen Sink, LOUDmouth, The NewStandard, Clamor, Bitch, elimae, Watchword, Social Policy, and the anthologies We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists and Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity.
Daria Yudacufski received a master’s degree in art history from UCSB, focusing on issues of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary art and culture. She has worked in cross-cultural education for more than a dozen years and was formerly the publisher of LOUDmouth and director of the Cross Cultural Centers at Cal State L.A. She is now managing a major arts and humanities initiative at USC.
REVIEWS EDITOR
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the editor, most recently, of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and an expanded second edition of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. She’s the book/print-reviews editor here at make/shift and also writes regularly for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Bitch, and other publications. Her second novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, will be published by City Lights in 2008. Visit her blog or Web site.
COLUMNISTS
Randa Jarrar is the author of the forthcoming novel A Map of Home. Her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Eyeshot, Duck & Herring, Hunger Mountain, and several anthologies, and she is at work on a collection of stories. She is a single mom, blogger, and translator of Arabic fiction.
Erin Aubry Kaplan is a contributing editor of the L.A. Times op-ed section and a contributing writer for Essence. She has contributed to numerous publications, including the anthologies Body Outlaws and Mothers Who Think.
Nomy Lamm is a writer, singer, and accordion player currently based on the West Coast. She is a cofounder of Phat Camp and a regular columnist for Punk Planet. She plans to finish her first novel in the next three years.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the editor, most recently, of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and an expanded second edition of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. She’s the book/print-reviews editor here at make/shift and also writes regularly for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Bitch, and other publications. Her second novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, will be published by City Lights in 2008. Visit her blog or Web site.
STAFF WRITERS
Irina Contreras is a visual activator type raised in Pacoima, California; an archivist type compelled to act by erased collective memory; and a bootiequake type who seeks to insert and disperse.Christine Petit is a union organizer and social-justice activist who is always down for a good meal or shaking her ass on the dance floor. She is currently working on a PhD in sociology, focusing on inequality, social movements, and law and legal repression.
ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER
David Rothbaum
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Giuliana Maresca is a photographer and designer based in Highland Park, California. Her photography conveys a fantasy-like vision and captures spontaneous moments and gestures. Her fashion design includes a series of artisan handbags. Her work also features experiments in music, painting, and handcrafted wrestling masks. She creates and markets art under the name Tripetta Cartel.
STAFF LIBRARIAN
Lia Friedman is a librarian living in California. She has an MS in library and information science from Pratt Institute, and she is the lead contributor at The Experiment and a proud member of Radical Reference. She loves bird-watching and swimming in the ocean.
