''Mookychick'' is an alternative feminist website and community. Content includes analysis of social and cultural trends, issues relating to gender, orientation and

mental health Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior. It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making. Mental hea ...

, and content related to

alternative fashion Alternative fashion or Alt fashion is fashion that stands apart from mainstream commercial fashion. Alternative fashion includes the fashions of specific subcultures such as emo, scene, goth subculture, hip hop, cyberpunk, kawaii, cottagecor ...

movies A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

book A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this phys ...

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ...

, music and

arts and crafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

from a feminist perspective.

History

''Mookychick'' first went online in 2005. Founding editor Magda Knight wanted to create a public space to support those whose life choices or social background rendered them non-normative in the eyes of contemporary society.

Content genres

On their submissions page, ''Mookychick'' states the editorial team are looking for "personal essays, poetry, fiction, artwork, interviews, how-to guides, reviews, thought pieces and listicles", with specific themed submissions every month. It also cites a preference for queer, personal and eclectic content. ''Mookychick'' has published interviews with the likes of

She Makes War Laura Kidd is a record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist releasing music and podcast episodes as Penfriend, and formerly known as She Makes War. After releasing four full length albums between 2010 and 2018, She Makes War was formal ...

Amanda Palmer Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and performance artist who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She performs as a solo artist and was also a ...

and

Joanne Harris Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris (born 3 July 1964) is an English-French author, best known for her novel '' Chocolat'' (1999), which was adapted the following year for the film '' Chocolat''. Early life Harris was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, ...

, among others.

Other projects

Annual feminist fiction competition

In October 2011, ''Mookychick'' instigated an annual award for feminist writing, FemFlash Fiction. Judges included

Lena Chen Lena Chen is a feminist artist, writer, and activist based in Berlin and Los Angeles. Born in San Francisco, California, Chen studied sociology and minored in Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality at Harvard College. Her work addresses women's id ...

and

Julie Zeilinger Julie Zeilinger (born February 24, 1993) is an American editor and feminist writer, known for having founded the feminist blog '' The F Bomb'' in 2009, and as the editor of ''MTV News'' Founders. She is the author of the book ''A Little F'd Up: Wh ...

. This annual competition ran from 2011 until 2013.

Annual May Day Magic ritual

In April 2017, ''Mookychick'' instigated an annual worldwide May Day Magic Ritual held every May 1. The ritual is loosely tied to the Pagan period of

Beltane Beltane () is the Gaelic May Day festival. Commonly observed on the first of May, the festival falls midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The festival name is synonymous with the month marking th ...

, but essentially non-denominational. Participants in the ritual fashion each other a May Day Crown from wherever they are located in the world, and some share their resulting creative works on social media.

Notes

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mookychick Alternative magazines Online magazines published in the United Kingdom Feminist magazines Feminist websites Independent magazines Magazines published in London Magazines established in 2005 Third-wave feminism Women's magazines published in the United Kingdom