!Q ZINE

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ISSUE

THE RACE ISSUE, NO. 1

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WORK

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

EDITORIAL STRATEGIST

WRITER

In 2016, I launched !Q, an internal, employee-run periodical that contextualizes issues of diversity for Droga5 staff.​ For each issue, I selected the topic; briefed designers and creatives; and oversaw content development and the budget.

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Key cultural happenings helped to select the topic for the inaugural issue: Beyonce performing at the Superbowl and dropping her visual album, Formation, and the virility of black men dying from police shootings. Droga5 staff nor society at-large were truly engaging with the uncomfortable issue at-hand: race.

 

The Race Issue, examines how race shapes our identities and relationships (whether if it's how we see or label ourselves, or how others view and treat us).