Qualifications
The ideal candidate will display above-average Microsoft Word skills, be Internet savvy and display initiative. Must know AP Style, have superior copyediting skills, exhibit professional manner and be able to meet deadlines. Candidates should have outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

The successful candidate will have a keen knowledge of hip-hop culture, online communications (i.e. instant messenger) and blogging experience.

This is a work from home position, so candidates must have daily access to the Internet and be available for weekly meetings with editorial staff.

Hours
10 – 20 hours per month

Editor-in-Chief, Raquel Wilson, who has overseen the publication since its debut on the World Wide Web over two years ago, leads the Chicago-based periodical. The magazine includes a talented collective of editors, contributors, and visual artists from the Chicago area as well as a few international locations. The magazine’s impressive list of contributors for the first issue include Laina Dawes, Sara McCool and Vanessa Manglinong, as well as Delphine Fawundu-Buford and Zenobia Simmons whose previous work have appeared in The Source.

In the first issue of the 5.5 x 4.25, quarterly publication, readers can expect to read features on Lady Bug Mecca, formerly of the hip-hop group Digable Planets, women in graffiti, in addition to female emcees from the UK. The magazine, which acquired independent distribution last year, can now be found in clothing boutiques, as well as independent record stores and bookstores across the United States, Canada, the UK and South Africa.

What is VERBALISMS: VERBALISMS Magazine is an open avenue for the conversations and debates that give insight into how women effect and are affected by the politics, revolutions and lifestyles of hip-hop.

VERBALISMS will publish its first print issue in March 2005, Women’s History Month, making it the first tangible magazine about women in hip-hop. Join in our crossGENDERation hip-hop movement by advertising in our first print issue!

VERBALISMS Readership: Our readers are an eclectic mix of women and men between 18-35, from different ethnicities and religions, with varied lifestyles, tastes and attitudes, but have two things in common: their love for hip-hop and their unhappiness with the lack of female representation within the culture.

Circulation: VERBALISMS will be available at independent bookstores, record shops and clothing boutiques in several major cities across the United States and Canada including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Toronto and Montreal.

VERBALISMS will also be in limited distribution in South Africa, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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W O M E N ‘ S H I S T O R Y M O N T H I S S U E F E A T U R E S

Ladybug Mecca
Jean Grae
Siloette
Jehmu Greene
Flo Brown
Adriana Evans
Deborah Magdalena
Kandia Crazy Horse
Psalm One
Harriet’s Alter Ego
Estelle
The Little Brown CD
Shystie
Black Artemis

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* a personal account of hip-hop’s history through the eyes of one its daughters

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V E R B A L I S M S A D C O N T A C T I N F O

To place an ad, contact our Advertising Manager at advertising@verbalisms.com or call at 773.991.3004. Download a copy of our media kit at www.verbalisms.com.