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.

EDITORIAL COMPOSITION

At make/shift, we know feminism isn’t dead, and we know it’s not all about “women.” We’re challenging the gender binary and all other oppressive systems by bringing together writers, artists, scholars, and activists from around the world who are transgressing supposed borders, connecting issues, and making change. Make/shift is about action and cross-pollination, intersections and creative divergences.

In our first three issues, we’ve published a diverse mix of emerging and established writers and artists, including brownfemipower, T Cooper, Sonali Kolhatkar, Amitis Motevalli, Emily Roysdon, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Dean Spade, Dorit Cypis, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Nomy Lamm, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Raquel Gutierrez, Julia Serano, Masha Tupitsyn, Myriam Gurba, and Randa Jarrar—just to name a few.

Each issue features

• current events
• cultural and political commentary
• profiles of visionary activists, artists, and thinkers
• fiction and poetry
• visual art
• book and film reviews

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, AlterNet, 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. She blogs at The Bilerico Project and is active with Resource Generation, a local produce co-op, and other activist groups.

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 the managing director of Visions and Voices, a major arts and humanities initiative at USC.

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.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the editor of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Her second novel will be published by City Lights in 2008.

OUR READERS

Print run (per issue): 2,000

Make/shift readers are smart, active, and unified by a common interest in progressive or radical social change.

We know we’re supposed to tell you how our readers shop so you’ll know if make/shift is the right place for your ad. And we do need your ad money. But the thing is, make/shift readers are as likely to create and critique as they are to consume. And when they do consume, they do it differently from each other. So, rather than market our readers, we thought we’d share our own spending habits as a representative sample:

Daria spends her money on vegetarian food and products, CDs and MP3s, home stuff, indie and mainstream magazines, and community-based orgs. But her favorite things are cheese, wine, and clothes, so you’ll probably find her at a gourmet shop, a fancy department store, or a neighborhood boutique.

Because Jessica is semi-secretly an obsessive bookkeeper, she knows exactly where she spends each of her discretionary dollars. The short version: donations to social-justice projects; books and magazines (especially those published independently or on small presses); food; and sports bras from girl-jock catalogs.

PRESS

“Coolest magazine to come out in a long freakin’ time.”—CHILL Magazine

“A most welcome addition to our library: a feminist magazine that reaches beyond DIY crafting tips and media deconstructions.”—Utne

“Quite simply the most outstanding print-based feminist magazine in the United States.”—The Feminist Review

“Our new favorite post-queer, post-feminist magazine.”—Semiotext(e)


Make/shift has been featured in numerous media outlets, including

• Nominated for the 2007 Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Publication
• Multiple articles republished on AlterNet
• Profiled in Ms. magazine
• Feature interviews with the Make/shift Collective at Feministing and Grrrl Zine Network
• Highlighted selection in Utne Reader’s “From the Stacks”
• Mentions in AlterNet, L.A. City Beat, Writers’ News (UK), Mediabistro’s Fishbowl L.A., L.A. Observed, art.blogging.LA, CHILL, and more

ADVERTISING

Issue 4
Ad Deadline: July 18, 2008
On-Sale Date: Sept 15, 2008

Issue 5
Ad Deadline: January 16, 2009
On-Sale Date: March 15, 2009

Issue 6
Ad Deadline: July 17, 2009
On-Sale Date: Sept 15, 2009

RATES

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Full page: $375 (one placement), $650 (two placements)
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1/4 page: $95 (one placement), $170 (two placements)
Business-card size: $35 (one placement), $60 (two placements)

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Back cover: $700 (one placement), $1250 (two placements)

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