Make/Shift Magazine and Makeshift Magazine

Make/Shift Magazine is a publication that I have known about for a few years, however, I only just discovered Makeshift Magazine. The differences consist of more than just a slash or absent of slash between the words Make and Shift.

I stumbled upon Make/Shift Magazine years ago. 

Make/Shift Magazine is a publication that describes itself in this way.

"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 anti-racist, 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."

I am not 100% certain as to how I came upon Make/Shift but I did hear that Jessica Hoffman and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore were contributors. That sold it for me. Hoffman contributes to Make/Shift as an editor and Sycamore contributes as an editor and columnist.

I was familiar with Hoffman as she has offered her talents to the anthologies, We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists and Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender Conformity. Sycamore has also contributed her talents to Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender Conformity, as well as the follow up,That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.

Make/Shift seeks to include articles which explore issues relating to feminism, activism, culture, politics, current events, visual art, fiction, poetry, and book and film reviews.

Another great thing about Make/Shift is that they want YOU to be involved. For each anticipated issue, Make/Shift calls for submissions. Topics of interest will be provided and instructions for submission. Make/Shift will pay 2 cents a word along with two copies of the magazine.

For more information about Make/Shift Magazine and to order copies, click here.

Now onto, Makeshift Magazine.

It is only recently that I learned of Makeshift Magazine. Makeshift is a magazine and a multimedia website that describes itself as sources which find "creativity in unlikely places, from the favelas of Rio to the alleys of Delhi. These are environments where resources may be scarce, but where ingenuity is used incessantly for survival, enterprise, and a self-expression. Makeshift is about people, the things they make, and the context they make them in."


Makeshift Magazine Trailer

Makeshift Magazine is a fledgling project that just dropped from the nest on September 30th, of last year. Makeshift is asking for donations to kickstart the process.

For more information about Makeshift Magazine and to make orders, click here.

To visit the official Makeshift Magazine facebook page, click here.

Both projects are worth checking out. If you dig grassroots stories and movements and DIY collectives - if socio-political issues are of interest to you, then these mags are up your alley.