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Contents Boys in Makeup
This is what a Feminist looks like
I am a Girl, Hear me Roar
Didn't Anyone ever tell you, it's okay to Shine?
Wonderlust
Be your Best Self
Contributors Oliver Sedgewick
Alana Grant
Simone Cheng
Charlotte Loh
Hannah Doyle
Celine Hasson
Rachael Copland
Fatou Jagne
Antonia Thorogood
Phoebe Russell
Megan Lawrie
Editors Letter Feminist is a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. There are a lot of institutionalised and societal stigmas surrounding what it means to be a “real woman” or a “real man”. Often Magazines and the fashion industry in general has these preconcieved ideas of what a woman should look like, and this is the woman they use in their campaigns and have on the cover of their magazines. This woman, however beautiful, only captures a very small percentage of what women actually look like. They are often shown as tall, slim, white women and diverse looking women are known as just that - diverse. And if you’re a man, often times you can’t cry or show remotely any emotion without being called ‘gay’. And, for the record, gay never was, and will continue to never be an insult. With all this in mind,
T H EY was created. We want to show that all women and men can be beautiful and we don’t have to fall into stereotypes.
Models are cast not from agencies but rather through personality and personal style. All of the imagery and styling in this issue has been put together not just by myself but also with the creative imput of each of the models. This is the running theme throughout this issue individuality and personality. We want to celebrate each individual for who they are, not what society tells them to be. So be yourself, love yourself and be YOU. Because we are
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Boys in Makeup
Model - Oliver Sedgewick Images - Georgia Hoban
Boys In Makeup Photography/Styling - Georgia Hoban Model - Oliver Sedgwick
This is what a Feminist looks like
Model - Alana Grant Images - Georgia Hoban
I am a Girl, Hear me Roar
Models - Simone Cheng and Charlotte Loh Images - Georgia Hoban Words - Hannah Doyle
I believe that every single human on
wanderlust that scratches within my
traveling the world. My wanderlust is
the face of this earth, lives a life of
skin like a cat trapped in a bag. I am
as much a part of my personality, as my
constructed identity. Be it an identity
very liberal in my thinking. I have spells
accent. It’s no wonder my internal cat is
you construct for yourself, that society
of anxiety and often refer to myself
on the verge of turning feral. I also live
creates or that the people who raise
as a “head case”. Wanderlust has been
in a digital age of watching the world
you create for you. I like to think that I
instilled in me since I was 18months
unfold around me. The days of spinning
am my own person, but the more and
old (my first holiday). Travel, see the
a globe and wondering what that place
more I think about the finer details of
world, learn and then travel again.
looked like are gone. I am liberal in my
this idea, I realise how stupid I sound. I
From countless camping holidays as a
thinking because some members of my
am no more my own person, than you
kid, to residential school trips, I never
family are absolutely not. I watch the
are yours. Everything you have done
let myself and was never allowed to
doors in their mind slam into place on
to this moment, to this second in fact,
miss one. My paternal grandparents
certain topics, understanding what this
has gone some way to constructing
moved to Canada with £50 in the
meant the older I became.
your identity.I am the only person in
50’s. My Dad has lived and worked
my family to go to University. I am an
in various countries. My maternal
Artist. I’ve moved away from where
grandparents travelled when possible
I was raised, where more than three
and always looked outwards. My
generations of my family still live. I
paternal grandfather and both great
travel whenever I am able and have a
grandfathers were in the military,
Even in rebelling against the mentalities
it enough energy. So when I’m not
of those surrounding me, I’ve only
flapping like a ducks arse I’m sitting in
done so because I don’t want to have
what my husband has lovingly coined “a
people look at me, the way I look at
nest”. This twitchy, irrational and fiery
them, as venom and ignorance froths
side of my personality is something I
at their mouths. My Dad, god love
live with but my doctor would happily
him, taught me how to bottle up my
medicate me for. No, it makes me who
emotions. I’ve watched him function
I am. I am no more my own person as
at a high level of “men don’t cry” all
an elephant is a fish. But this isn’t a bad
my life. I watched him twitch as he
thing. I know that there are elements of
avoided confrontation and instead, take
my personality that I have inherited. I’m
back control by cleaning. We grew up
no more one thing than the other. At a
in a house that was almost spotless
time when I viewed my manufactured
all of the time. With a mother who
self as a bad thing, it was so easy to
was the opposite, it was like watching
spiral. I wasn’t living the life I saw other
magnets trying to slide past each other
people live via Instagram. I am not
at times. I now function at a bizarre
#instafit, I don’t look like a Kardashian
mix of the two. I am a complete scruff,
and I’ve never liked, that as a girl, I get
but I am more than able to lose my
to be made from “sugar, spice and all
sense of control at the drop of a hat.
thing’s nice” (what a crock of shit). I
When I’m not bottling up how I feel,
swear all the time, I hate exercise and
I’m crying about it. I could give myself
the thought of being #instafit makes me
a panic attack about nail polish if I gave
cringe.
I’m a size 12 ginger I couldn’t be
or mother or anyone thing, when you
further from a Kardashian if I tried. And
can be everything and anything?
all of these things that tell me who I
I’m a direct contradiction to myself
should be are much more damaging,
at times and a complete hypocrite at
than those aspects manufactured by
others. But completely fulfilled. And
my family or geographical upbringing.
although adventure or something new
It was only when I washed the bullshit
is a craving I live with every second of
from my hands, I saw that giving society
each day, I otherwise couldn’t be more
a good strong, one fingered salute, is
content. I’m a girl who knows who
so important. I’m not nice all the time
she is, I’m a girl who is a cliché and a
and that gives me strength, is doesn’t
contradiction and I am girl who lives in
make me a bitch. I have an openly
a state of balanced boards often hoping
constructed identity, but I also know
for the best. I can be exactly what I’m
that some blueprints can be put in
made to be and a complete individual
the bin. I don’t have to be anything I
all at once. I am girl, hear me roar.
don’t want to be and in the same way I became liberal, as a rebellion, I’ll also just be happy as person. I read Vogue and watch documentaries, I spent four hours gardening yesterday and I’m 23 year old married woman, who can think of nothing worse than having a baby right now. Watch me and my constructed identity kick your arse if you try to enforce who you think I should be on me. I’ve be pro girl power since I was 6 thanks to The Spice Girls. In a time when being a girl is so much more than a wife and a mother, I’m allowing myself to flourish. My identity changes every single day. Every time I meet someone new or do something different I change. Why would anyone just want to be a boy or a girl or a wife
Didn’t anyone ever tell you, it’s okay to Shine?
Models - Celine Hasson and Rachael Copland Images - Georgia Hoban Makeup - Fatou Jagne
You are a perfect little star in your own little galaxy
So love and take care of yourself because you are one of a kind.
Wonderlust
Model - Antonia Thorogood Images - Georgia Hoban Makeup - Phoebe Russell Pony - Millie, Tarbock Green Riding School
Be your Best Self
Model - Phoebe Russell Images - Georgia Hoban Makeup - Megan Lawrie
It is becoming very difficult to be happy
or not skinny enough on social media
in 2016, our lives are dominated by social and now apps are advertising to them media, who has more followers or got
that they should have flawless skin and
the most likes is becoming more and
a smaller waist. Social media should be
more important than personality and
used to build girls up not knock them
feelings. All we see is the highlight reel of down, and certainly not have them someone else’s life, we don’t see the bad comparing themselves against what other hair day or other peoples problems and
people post.You are not the opinion of
daily worries. What we also don’t see is
somebody who doesn’t know you, post
the extensive amount of editing some
for yourself not others.
people put into their Instagram and other social media posts. There are now apps available for anyone with access to a smartphone, most for free others less than a coffee, that can quickly edit images to look as close to perfection as possible. No not just a quirky filter and some extra lighting, these apps give people the ability to skin retouch, remove blemishes and even change the shape of their body. These are features that have previously only been accessible to highly trained editors with the latest version of Photoshop. Now anyone can erase the features of their own images that they don’t like and when this feature is in the hands of young teenage girls it only becomes more dangerous. Teenagers have grown up being told they are not good enough, not pretty enough
You are not the Opinion
of Someone who
doesn’t know you.
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