This issue focuses on the politics of migration, safe space in cities, the overlooked everyday ecology of our neighbourhood and social life of those who inhabit it. With a foreword by Bianca Ama Manu, this catalogue provides a snapshot of creators lending their voices to the unseen. The interviews, stories and poems published in this journal melt in perfectly with both visual vocabularies of contemporary fashion as well as documentary.
“Social Acts” draws inspirations from the hash tag on social media titled #documentingwomen. While observing mainstream media it is obvious that women continue to be portrayed in ways that echo weakness, self-doubt, cattiness, and discrimination. Women are not equal in telling stories, nor are they involved in sourcing and interpreting what and who is important in a story. The social ecology of women proves they have evolved to control the politics of their lives, and also to create awareness around an existence diverse from the realities society have of them. This issue is for women and created mostly by women, featuring women, those on the cusp of adulthood and in a transitional state.
The power of storytelling and a random photo has the ability to inspire, spur social participation and ultimately, move people to act. The women chosen for this work are either first-hand connections or women from our communities. Initially the study was from a distance but in this issue the works will be up close because confronting a subject and sharing its truth is one of the definitive forms of generosity vital for amity, contentment and completion, it is also a chosen way of expression, a medium for the world to see essence, character and the totality of the message we choose to share. The idea remains to anthologize photojournalism and literature.