“We are the Women in Red. Our voices have always been true to our colors but have been ignored and under-represented by monochrome institutions. We are the multicultural mothers to our honest word and the rebel daughters of the artistic revolution. Our struggles and experiences are beyond Badger Red because we are the crimson, rojo, akai, dark to deep, bright to bold sisters of scarlet that will always hold ourselves and our sisters and brothers to be sacred.”
Through the power of print, Women in REDzine focuses on giving women of the UW-Madison community and their supporters a platform for artistic expression, cross-cultural dialogue, and a voice against all forms of oppression and social injustice. Women in REDzine is a multi-cultural magazine dedicated to exposing the underlying struggles that connect us all.
Women in REDzine is the first multicultural women’s art and literature magazine at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. This publication was founded to amplify the voices of the marginalized and under-represented communities of women-identified individuals on campus and the wider Madison community of different racial, ethnic, religious, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, and differently-abled backgrounds. Before Women in REDzine, women of color, women’s expression, and multi-cultural women’s issues have been largely ignored by other campus magazines, newsletters, and other publications. Women in REDzine specifically outreaches to multicultural student and community groups across campus and the city of Madison to recruit art and written submissions.
Our magazine does not claim to represent all women for them, but rather to provide a published space for them to represent themselves through their own voice, their own words, and their own forms of artistic expression. By gathering and compiling the works of people from different backgrounds, experiences, identities, cultures and putting them together in one publication we hope to encourage cross-cultural dialogue, multicultural education through the arts, and establish an artists’ community of respect and heightened awareness.
Women in REDzine is also deeply committed to providing new opportunities for internships, job training, and volunteering. It is very difficult to find readily available opportunities such as these within the fields of arts, publication, and multicultural women’s issues on campus. Through our internship program, students can receive up to 7 credits per semester.
