About SALIMA
SALIMA is a new Quarterly Magazine launching in 2021 from the Women’s Center for Creative Work Team! Your support will help us bring the first issue to life!
Taking its name from a long-time Women’s Center for Creative Work employee with impeccable style, a contagiously fun personality, and a practice of deep care for everyone around her, SALIMA is the intersectional feminist magazine we need in our life! SALIMA is made by and for Black, Indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, nonbinary, low-income, folks living with disabilities, and all those most affected by–and working to take down–the white supremacist, capitalist, colonialist, ableist, cis-hetero patriarchy.
SALIMA is a place of refuge and inspiration where these perspectives are empowered, celebrated, and invested in. SALIMA works to reshape creative conversations and critical dialogue, circulating tools & ideas to help us imagine ourselves beyond isolation & scarcity thinking and towards abundance, connection, collaboration, and care. We see this offering as one more WCCW platform that supports creative production and the redistribution of resources throughout our interconnected network, all while making stylish, thoughtful, and revolutionary content available to a much wider audience.
Toni Cade Bambara said that the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible -- SALIMA is our enticing offering to the revolution.
Each issue will feature….
-Feature Essays and Interviews
-Music features
-A youth section
-Food stories and recipes
-Magic
-Poetry
-A “review anything” section
-Advice Column
-A look at WCCW's archive
-Fun tear outs and posters
-Community Board
-Tons of unique illustrations and photography
Issue 1: Emergence
The theme for our first issue is EMERGENCE. Emergence has many meanings-- the word itself is a noun that goes back to the Latin root emergere, meaning "bring to light". It can mean the revealing of something that was once hidden, or something rising to the surface.
When we came up with this idea we thought we’d be coming out of quarantine by the time this magazine would be released–– however, like many others, we were sadly wrong about this pandemic’s timeline. While we may not be emerging from this pandemic, we are definitely emerging from many other things; letting go of hopelessness and stepping into new selves; learning how to ongoingly show up for communities and finding our roles in the social justice ecosystem; emerging into an era of humanity that ensures the safety and wellbeing of others in every action & on every level.
Emergence is how we change, how we expand, how we grow. What are the small ways we are changing & intentionally growing our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for? How do we allow the long defunct systems & ways of being to burn & what do we create in their place? With our world falling apart, how do we shape this change?*
*taken from adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy & Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
About Women’s Center for Creative Work
The Women's Center for Creative Work is an intersectional feminist arts organization that produces and platforms the work of BIPOC, queer and trans, low-income, and disabled women and nonbinary artists; creates transformative media through a feminist lens; redistributes resources; develops anti-oppressive alternatives to traditional business and nonprofit ways of working; and offers opportunities for the holistic building and support of creative community in person and online.