Make/shift

Two editors and five contributors will be here to present the new issue of this great feminist culture magazine!  Editor/publishers Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski (pictured above), along with contributors Ruth Blandon, Emily Hobson, Erin Aubry Kaplan, James McKeever, and Christine Petit, will read.

Jessica Hoffmann is a coeditor/copublisher of make/shift. Her writing has appeared in publications including ColorLines, AlterNet, and the anthologies We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists and Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. In 2008, Utne named her one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."

Daria Yudacufski is a coeditor/copublisher of make/shift. She received a master’s degree in art history from UCSB, focusing on issues of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary art and culture. She is the managing director of Visions and Voices, an arts and humanities initiative at USC.

Ruth Blandón recently completed her PhD in English at USC, looking at transamerican modernisms.

Emily Hobson is a lecturer in feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara.

Erin Aubry Kaplan is a contributing editor to "Opinion" at the Los Angeles Times and a columnist at make/shift.

James McKeever is an assistant professor of sociology at Pierce College. 

Christine Petit is the president of the union for academic student employees at the University of California, a blogger, and a frequent contributor to make/shift.

Make/shift magazine creates and documents contemporary feminist culture and action by publishing journalism, critical analysis, fiction, poetry and visual art. Join coeditors/copublishers Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski for an afternoon of readings featuring several make/shift contributors.