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Who We Are

VisibleWomanOnline is a literary online magazine geared to women of color over
forty. Why the need for such a magazine? The facts are unfortunate, but clear. All women
tend to be ushered into invisibility after the age of forty: we don’t often see ourselves
reflected favorably in popular media, and despite pronouncements that “fifty is the new
thirty”, jobs that sounded so promising over the phone tend to evaporate when we
show up in person to interview for them.

For women of color, already pushed to the edges of society, the road to invisibility is
even more subtle, and more insidious. We’re expected to continue our roles as nurturers,
workers, and backup support to the men who can still hope to lead and conquer. For
many of us the dictates of custom and culture add to our dilemma. How can we fulfill the
expectations of our forbears and at the same time realize our own sometimes very
different dreams?

What We Do

VisibleWomanOnline is our attempt to give voice to women of color who have long wanted to remove the
cloak of invisibility. We’re here dammit. We are no longer content to sit quietly on the sidelines – if indeed we ever
have. We claim the right to be heard and seen, to become, in a word, visible.

Published bi-monthly, each issue will deal with a single topic from many different perspectives. Through essays,
poetry, photography, and art, we will explore the topic inside out. Among the topics VisibleWomanOnline will cover
are: aging, relationships, race, class and identity, the impact of beauty and fashion, health and well being, the
conflict between traditional cultural roles and modern expectations, and more.

Perhaps we will reach new conclusions, perhaps we’ll just have new questions. Above all, we hope to create a
global community of women coming together to share ideas, experiences, and insights as we continue to make
ourselves known.

“I made speech my
birthright…talking back
became for me a rite of
initiation.”

bell hooks