ZOOEY
THE WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT TEASER ISSUE
THE ZOOEY MAGAZINE FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR MIRANDA FIELD-MARTIN
TEASER ISSUE 01
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THE WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ISSUE FOREWORD................................04 COLOR AND PERCEPTION......06 SLUTWALK PDX..........................12 FILLE AVEC LA NATURE............16 ON SELF AND SELFIES.............24 NEXT ISSUE................................30 MEET THE CAST.........................32
FOREWORD Welcome to the teaser issue of the Zooey Magazine! This project started out
as a semi-insane spur of the moment idea and has now officially blossomed into something that I honestly find purely incredible. I never thought it would, or could,
EDITOR'S LETTER
be real, but with the help of my amazing staff, the support of my friends, and everyone who submitted their work, it's finally here!
I wanted to create Zooey as an accessible way for young artists to showcase their work, and to explore design and journalism, through creating layouts and writing articles that would appeal to the culture and interests of other young artists and writers. I hope that Zooey can fulfill this dream for all those who want to publish their work, gain experience, and practice their skills. To be quite honest, I have no idea what I'm doing, and yet, here we are! If a highschool girl with extremely limited knowledge of editing anything, and who still needs YouTube tutorials to properly work photoshop, can publish a relatively legitimate-looking magazine, then I supposed anything is possible. This little half-issue of Zooey is very special to me, and not only because is our premiere, but because we decided to focus this teaser issue on women's empowerment. This magazine currently has a staff of all women, and submissions all created by women or relate in subject to women and their lives. The girls in this magazine represent, to me, an incredible amount of intelligence, creativity, and bravery. I wanted to showcase in Zooey the many different visions
of beauty, from the poised and posed, to the accidental, from the incredible figure that is the human body, to the life that is born from pen on paper. I hope you find
your own beauty, intelligence, and creativity on every page of our magazine. And with that, I'll send you, with much love, to the next page.
-Miranda
COLOR AND PERCEPTION
SLUT WALK
PDX
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On September 20th, 2015, I attended the yearly SLUT Walk, an event that oozed empowerment, body positivity, and communal enthusiasm towards social change. Over
1,000 people attended, all demanding to alter the current status quo around demeaning topics such as slut shaming, body dysmorphia, and victim blaming in cases of sexual
violence. The creators of the walk urged us to embrace "slut" as a term of freedom and empowerment, rather than shame and impurity. Activists rallied behind their like-minded community members as hoards of (half-naked) people marched the streets of downtown chanting "however we dress, wherever we go,
no!
"
-Zoe Ray
FILLE AVEC LA NATURE
ON SELF AND SELFIES BY MARIA GRAY It’s no secret that modern women are culturally expected to shrink themselves. We absorb and perpetuate the idea that a young woman’s most valuable asset is her negative space:
while the most obvious example is that of prominent collarbones and unassuming, evenly toned skin, this
extends beyond physique and bleeds into the psyche. Smallness, in its rawest nature, seeps into every aspect of one’s
life and behaviors. Assertive women are dismissed as bossy and even hysteric.
Women are used to interruption, being trodden upon, invasion of space — altogether, these experiences and lessons can be snowballed together to form a single backwards mantra. You don’t belong to you. The way I see it, this lack of autonomy feeds directly into the disheartening idea that it’s more widely acceptable to dislike your body than love it. Casual self-deprecation comes with the territory, and it oftentimes becomes a reflex, rolling off the tongue without any sense of unsettlement. It’s second nature to tell your friend that you could never pull off the dress or swimsuit they’re wearing; to shrug off a
compliment that seems disingenuous; to apologize for wearing sweats or being bare-faced. You don’t pay rent to the
rest of the world with your prettiness. You don’t owe anyone anything, and it’s not your responsibility to assume the role of eye candy.
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It’s no secret, however, that women have longtime been expected to sit in the corner and look pretty. The expectation of women to be made up and thin and adequately adhere to Eurocentric beauty standards has
fostered billion-dollar industries that bank off female insecurity.
It strikes me as wholly ironic that,
while women can be recklessly
commodified and sold by these same corporations, heaven forbid a woman
appreciate herself. Self-love should not be treated with disdain, and while this may sound obvious to some, it’s dismissed more often than it is cultivated and supported. “Selfie culture,” for example, is most often described as an outlet for overindulgent women who need outside validation to function. While this is wholly in the past, I know I used to incessantly roll my eyes at countless peers who regularly shared their selfies. On my end, it appeared to be crossing a social boundary. It was immodest and loud and obnoxious, I felt, and if these people really appreciated themselves, they wouldn’t rely on likes and comments to make themselves feel good. I dismissed them as air-headed and self-obsessed, quietly patting myself on the back for not being one of those girls who felt the urge to
document every pursed lip and fancy hairstyle. Essentially, it wasn’t classy.
I don’t know why I was so bothered
by something so harmless, but I’ve refined my opinion on selfies.
It’s easy to dismiss them as frivolous and overindulgent because they’re so quick and effortless in their creation, but there’s honestly something beautiful in that. In my opinion, social media has revolutionized the way we view ourselves, and while it's obviously a vastly multifaceted issue,
women who are considered plus-sized or fat, women who have skin conditions, women who are transgender; these are only a few of the groups of women who suffer from a lack of mainstream representation.
Silence is also a message. When you
selfies don't deserve the rap they get. It's
don't see anybody in the public eye who
you feel the need to publicize or share this,
conveyed: you are doing something wrong.
a cry for help, nor are they a sign of
"conventionally attractive" women has a
(and, to take it further, I wholly dislike the
these women are still airbrushed and
context: it contributes to dangerous and
These images of women commonly
okay to take pride in your appearance, and if by all means, I will admire you. Selfies aren't
looks like you, a subtle message is
Exposure to little but skinny, white,
delusion, self-centric ideology, or narcissism
grave effect — and let's not forget that
casual use of the word 'narcissism' in this
Photoshopped a thousand times over.
dismissive misconceptions about
considered to be the epitome of Western
another subject entirely).
grossly altered behind computer screens.
circles are often accredited with having
is literally unreachable, and while some
means of self-expression and
everybody's personal insecurities are
Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which is Those within feminist/socially active
beauty are still edited and trimmed and We have created a standard of beauty that
seized and "reclaimed" the selfie as a
carry more institutional weight,
empowerment. Take the Body Positivity
justified. There's a reason over three
share pictures of the same bodies that may
believe they should lose weight. There's a
women to "self-fashion" — that is, engage
flipping through a fashion magazine leaves
Movement, which encourages individuals to
quarters of fourth and fifth-grade girls
cause them grief. Selfies enable young
reason that a mere three minutes of
in self- expository behavior and share images they deem as genuine representations of themselves. Women are exposed to a barrage of
the majority of women feeling guilty, ashamed, and inferior. So what do selfies have to do with all of this? They're seen as trivial and hasty,
images and messages, however subliminal,
easily made and shared; the subjects are a
supposed to look like". Our current, cultural
airbrushed into unreality. And that's
ways than one!). Women of color, women
media has revolutionized self-image is
that carry the message "this is what you are
far cry from the women who are
standard of beauty is vastly slim (in more
exactly the point. The reason I say social
who are disabled,
because so many people have access to these platforms.
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WRITERS
CAMILLE DUPEROUX HANNAH GINSBERG ZOE RAY JADE WARNER KATIE WOODHOUSE
CLAIRE COLEMAN CAMILLE DUPEROUX HANNAH GINSBERG MARIA GRAY SAM LEAHY JADE WARNER ZOË WOOFF
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CREDITS: "Ask First" Zoe Ray, pg. 12 "Aubrey" Miranda Field-Martin, pg. 20
"Craters" Miranda Field-Martin, pg. 32 "Fire" Aubrey Pledger, pg. 6
"Girl" Camille Duperoux, pg. 28 "Girls with Earth" Samantha Leahy, pg. 16 "Glow" Miranda Field-Martin, pg. 10
"Hanna" Miranda Field-Martin, pg. 8 "India" Aya Doslu pg. 26 "Meret" Claire Coleman, pg. 22 "Self-Portrait, Smiling" Miranda Field-Martin, pg. 4 "Slutwalk" Zoe Ray, pg. 14 "Untitled" Remy Rogers, Cover "Untitled" Claire Coleman, pg. 18
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