UPCOMING EVENT

Media, Action, and Social Justice: Let’s Talk!

Saturday, June 28, 2008
Session W3, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., Room THH 213
Los Angeles Social Forum

Join us to talk about the relationship between social-justice-oriented independent media and grassroots action. This participatory discussion will be a space to explore together how media makers and other community workers collaborate toward social justice. What works well? What’s hard? How can we collaborate better? Bring your experiences, questions, and ideas. This workshop will center the voices and work of women and trans people of color who are active in local, volunteer-centered media and action. All are welcome to attend and participate. This workshop is co-presented by make/shift, the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition, LOUDmouth, and CureThis.

NEWS

Issue 3 is out now! Look for it in independent bookstores near you, or order it directly from us.

AlterNet has re-published two articles from our latest issue: “An Open Letter to White Feminists” by Jessica Hoffmann and “Misdiagnosis: Reproductive Health and Our Environment” by Mariana Ruiz Firmat.

Recent press:

* Make/shift no. 3 featured at Utne’s “From the Stacks.”

* Interview with the editorial and publishing collective behind make/shift at Grrrl Zine Network.

* Profile of make/shift in the Winter 2008 issue of Ms. magazine.

* Review of make/shift no. 2 at Feminist Review.  

Make/shift was nominated for the 2007 Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Publication.

RECENT EVENTS

International Women’s Day at the Echo Park Film Center

Thursday, March 6, 2008, 8 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Short films by Sophie Barthes, Hilary Goldberg, Michelle Hung, Mariam Jobrani, Lois Weber, and Sarah Wickliffe. Readings by make/shift contributors Myriam Gurba, Christine Petit, and others TBA. Followed by a Q&A with the media makers and a reception.

This event is co-presented by the American Cinematheque and make/shift. Films curated by Kim Adelman, Andrew P. Crane, and Andrea Richards. Filmmakers, curators, writers, and the collective behind make/shift in attendance.

Público Tránsitorio: The Political Equator

November 15, 2007, LA, SD, TJ

Coeditor/copublisher Jessica Hoffmann and contributor Irina Contreras cofacilitate a discussion on feminist collectives as part of a multidisciplinary event looking at transnational political art in the Americas.

Issue 2 Release Party, Bay Area

Friday, October 19, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

Mama Buzz

2318 Telegraph, Oakland, CA

Hosted by the editorial and publishing collective, with readings by Irina Contreras, Myriam Gurba, Nomy Lamm, Kaya Oakes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Julia Serano, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Issue 2 Release Party, Los Angeles

Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Skylight Books

1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Hosted by the editorial and publishing collective, with readings by Stephanie Abraham, Myriam Gurba, Erin Aubry Kaplan, and Dean Spade.

Feminism: Gender, Race, and Class

A Workshop at the United States Social Forum

Saturday, June 30, 2007

USSF, Atlanta, Georgia

Sponsored by Solidarity (lead organization), Black Radical Congress, Circle Connections, Gabriela Network, make/shift, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, NOW, Pro-Choice Public Education Project, Project South, SisterSong, Spirit House, and Triangle WILPF.

Angela Davis Speaks on the Legacies and Potentials of Feminism

Sunday, June 10, 2007, 2 p.m.

Colburn School, Los Angeles

This event was part of the Ralph Tornberg/Museum Director’s Distinguished Lecture Series presented in conjunction with “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution.” Make/shift was the media sponsor of this lecture. For more information, visit the WACK! site.

New York Launch Reading

Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Bluestockings

172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002

Cohosted by Jessica Hoffmann and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, with readings by Tara Betts, T Cooper, and Felicia Luna Lemus.

Los Angeles Launch Party

Friday, March 16, 2007, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

LACE, 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028

Featuring Erin Aubry Kaplan, Raquel Gutierrez, Irina Contreras, and Bryant Alexander; presented in conjunction with LACE’s “Shared Women” exhibition.

ISSUE 3, SPRING/SUMMER 2008:

COLUMNS

SPECIAL TO ISSUE THREE

LA VIDA Y LA MUERTE DE MALALECHE
Profile by Daria Yudacufski

OPEN LETTER TO WHITE FEMINISTS
Essay by Jessica Hoffmann

MIA MINGUS ON MYTHS OF BODIES, BABIES, AND MORE
Interview by Irina Contreras

JAKE
Fiction by Masha Tupitsyn

HOMOTOPIA: ERIC STANLEY AND CHRIS VARGAS
Interview by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

MISDIAGNOSIS: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND OUR ENVIRONMENT
Political Memoir by Mariana Ruiz Firmat

THE GENDERCATOR: FINDING MY BUTCH
Essay by Jessica Lawless

CREATIVE ALLIANCES THROUGH SHARED CRIMINALITY
Essay by brownfemipower

WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE: ALEXIS GIRALDO
Interview by Lewis Wallace

Plus: Poetry by Sandra Alland and Mel Kozakiewicz, FIERCE!, Birth Attendants, so-called gender-responsive prisons, the Amelia Bloomer Project, Transforming Justice, radical-women-of-color bloggers at the AMC, Mujeres del NO, Fuerza Unida, Seattle Young People's Project, Neelam Sharma, Men Can Stop Rape, lots of reviews, the make/shift crossword puzzle, and more!