ISSUE 01: Letter from the Founders
What's FLOAT + FLOW Magazine all about, anyway?
Born from the 2024 election results, FLOAT + FLOW Magazine acts as our answer to the question we’ll continue to explore over the next four years:
What does taking our power back look like?
We don’t have all the answers, but as we enter what feels like the series finale of American democracy, we know what we can do.
We can nurture: ourselves, each other, and our communities. We can have conversations that challenge who we are, what we know, and where we’re going. We can, in our case, create — create without restraint or expectations and build a space that is equal parts resistance and liberation.
So what does that look like?
With FLOAT + FLOW Magazine, we’re redefining and decolonizing the conversations and practices that inhabit our everyday lives — everything from wellness and self care to food, design, and culture. As our U.S. and global society pushes individualism, white supremacy, and continues to function as a system of oppression, FLOAT + FLOW acts a tool of resistance, with interviews, essays, and commentaries that seek to challenge that status quo.
Through our work, we ask: How can we create beautiful things and beautiful spaces to feed and nurture ourselves as we continue to resist? How can we become those beautiful things and beautiful spaces, filling up our own cups, as we continue to resist? Could the communities we build become a resistance themselves?
To float is a declaration, a refusal to drown underneath the oppressive power structures intent on keeping us under water.
And to flow is a commitment to living our lives in alignment with our values, in alignment with ease, and to going where the current takes us.
Signed,
The Founders of FLOAT + FLOW Magazine
Jennie, Sydney, and Michelle
beautifully said! 👏🏻