Kazoo, the award-winning and queer-inclusive magazine for girls (founded by a lesbian mom), has just dropped its subscription price and come out with its 10th issue, all about action that changes the world!
I had the pleasure of interviewing Founder and Editor Erin Bried in May, and hope you’ll go read that piece for more about her motivation for the magazine and the importance of making it intersectional and queer-inclusive. In her opening letter to the latest issue, Bried writes about going to “quite a few marches” with her family in the past two years, and why this issue is dedicated “to capturing that feeling of hope and power and togetherness—and to changing the world.”
Illustration by Giulia Zoavo. Used with permission of Kazoo.Bried and her staff have developed the stories, comics, advice, and activities in the issue with a wide variety of amazing people, including artist Giulia Zoavo, who created the fun and queer-inclusive search-and-find puzzle pictured here. (Click image to enlarge.) Additionally:
- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shares a special message for Kazoo’s “Noisemakers”;
- Cartoonist Liza Donnelly explains how cartoons can help change the world—and readers are given space to try her step-by-step method of drawing;
- Chef and civil rights activist Leah Chase gives us her butter cake recipe and tells how her restaurant helped “change the course of America”;
- CNN journalist Lisa Ling offers tips on understanding the context of news and other stories;
- New York City Marathon winner Shalane Flanagan advises readers on how to keep going;
- The Guerrilla Girls explain how their art helps them fight injustice (and readers can cut out their own Guerrilla Girls mask to inspire their own art for change);
- National Book Award Finalist and NAACP Image Award nominee Angela Flournoy offers a short story about a girl who overcomes her fears to organize some friends to help her with a garden she was inspired to create.
There’s also a graphic story about Rosa Parks; an activity about the power of voting; a place readers can draw and write about their own superpowers; tips on how to call the White House or Congress (with parental permission); as well as advice on what to do if you’re angry (and how it can be “fuel to change the world”) and how to calm down. There are also two pieces on science topics, one from physicist Ximena Cid and the other from Sara Hallager, curator of birds at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.
Not only does it have great content, but Kazoo’s growth has allowed Bried to drop the subscription price to $39.95 a year, making it comparable to other leading ad-free children’s magazines Highlights and Cricket (about which more here). Bried also donates 500 copies of each issue to First Book, a not-for-profit that provides reading material to children in need.
If you’re looking for a magazine to inspire the girls (and even young people of other genders) in your life, check it out. The Action issue is on sale through November 30—but every issue so far seems equally inspiring and empowering.