About Sesi Magazine
the ONLY print magazine for Black teen girls in the U.S.
"Sesi" means "sister" in Sotho, a Bantu language mainly spoken in Southern Africa. We're the only Black teen magazine on newsstands -- out here filling that void in mainstream magazine media, in which Black girls and their voices are virtually invisible. And now, you can buy us a coffee to support our work!
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Yesterday, I logged in to Sesi 's Twitter to check and see if we had any notifications, and be still my heart! Skylar Johnson, the #BlackGirlMagic feature in our spring issue had tagged us in a video post (see below) and two photos. She'd just gone to her local Barnes & Noble and saw herself in the mag for the first time! Skylar is a 15-year-old seamstress, model, style influencer, and owner o...
In Case Anyone Needed a Reminder That Representation Matters 💯
Jun 13, 2022
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Ok, scratch that. This is actually The Real Life of an EIC/Publisher of a Black, woman-owned, indie magazine. Because those specifics matter. TL; DR: Issa lot. LOL. I got the idea for Sesi one random night back in 1998. I was 17 years old, and I was lying on my bedroom floor, flipping through about half a dozen back issues of Seventeen , YM , and Teen People . Looking at all the covers, I realized...
The Real Life of an EIC
Jun 10, 2022
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