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Co-founder and writer of Bitch and Creative Spotlight.
As a journalist, I’ve travelled the globe in search of the wondrous, the noteworthy and the exotic, but my wanderlust has been seriously curtailed since motherhood arrived, eight years ago. On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I was reminded how gloriously life-affirming the best cities are, their architecture, their cultural totems and grand institutions such a vivid expression of a nation’s culture and aspirations, from gritty ghetto to public piazza. I like to think this issue similarly illustrates the aspirations and experience of real women, from the everyday beauty of a kitchen table, captured in our photo essay, through the hard but life-affirming graft of community projects (Letter From) to the big thinking and brilliance of some of our leading female artists (Creative Spotlight). |
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Co-founder of Magnificent Me and writer of Heroines.
My highlight for this issue was finding out about and then writing about your heroines from our edition 2 survey. I loved the fact that you look up to everyone from Joan of Arc and Mother Theresa to Debbie Harry and Delia Smith! Great women is what this magazine is all about - a celebration of 'Magnificent Us' and a real antidote to 'Celebrity Cellulite Weekly' (OK, I made that up!) and all the other trash peddled to us on the magazine shelves... |
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Kavel is an illustrator and artist from the UK, now living in Stockholm, Sweden. She doesn't really have any hobbies as such but she does love dancing around badly till the early hours to Northern soul and R'n'B (the old kind) and then walking home in the morning with the music still buzzing in her ears. Kavel also likes charity shopping where she finds inspiration for her work, junk to decorate her apartment and adding to her collection of record company sleeves for her retro graphic design blog, 'record envelope'. Kavel is terrible at Swedish…
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Born in the Czech Republic, Ivana grew up in Vancouver where she studied Cultural Anthropology and Theatre design. Her career has taken her from the fashion world to the corporate world (Hasbro and Walt Disney); designing clothes, accessories and houses for the famous (Disney Fashion dolls), the rich (can’t mention names… only titles!) and the plastic (Sindy dolls). |
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Following a dramatic downshift from the heady heights of women’s magazine journalism in the Big Smoke, Jill Shearer now lives in the wilds of rural North Wiltshire with a husband, a son, an invisible cat, two guinea pigs (one a pre-operative transsexual) and a delinquent brown dog. She makes cakes, tries to grow vegetables and writes freelance for a number of magazines. You can read about her daily doings via her weekly blog. View her blog here. |
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Philippa Edwards comes from up North and now lives and works in Amsterdam, NL. As well as being an artist she’s a very active school mum and campaigner for integrated schools. She’s always on the lookout for creative ways to earn a bit of extra cash and is currently scraping together her hard earned cash so that she can show off the Yorkshire Dales to her Dutch mates.
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I've lived in West Dorset for the past 16 years. Before that I lived in Devon, where I moved to at the age of 13 from Cambridgeshire. I was born in South Yorkshire. I'm the daughter of a Ghanaian man and British white woman, and faced a lot of racism as a child of dual heritage growing up in the seventies and eighties, which inspired me to write. I write about issues that are important to me - love, relationships, domestic violence, parenting and family, racism in the South West. Being a black poet is only part of who I am - I fit into several 'categories' - a single mother is another one - but I don't hold with fitting people into one box and making assumptions about them. I'm an Exeter University graduate, who went on to write about the history of African and Caribbean people in Dorset - the book is called 'Dorset's Hidden Histories' and is available from DEED (info@deed.org.uk). I write because I want to tell my truths and inspire other people to do the same, also to inspire people to make changes in their lives and be survivors. Writing has helped me come to terms with who I am, where I come from and where I hope to go. |
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Aimee, a 30-something native New Yorker, is a freelance PA and former Tour Coordinator. She lives in Dorset with her husband and daughter |
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