Vag Magazine: satirical New York webseries has us crying for more

by Petit Fours

VagMag came to our attention yesterday when the New York writers behind this piece of satirical web gold sent us an email about it. Currently we’re hearting all over it and are bare dez for episode two.

Vag Magazine is a six part web series of five minute episodes, written and performed by a group of New York based female comdians who are also (praise the lord) great actresses. They explain the concept:

“VAG MAGAZINE is not your grandma’s feminist magazine, though we support her as a woman. Go behind the scenes at this hipster third-wave feminist magazine with founders FENNEL, SYLVIE, and BETHANY, staffers HEAVY FLO (a hero on the roller derby circuit), REBA (truly a legend of gonzo feminist pop culture journalism), and MEGHAN (the lone holdover from fashion magazine Gemma, which the Vag founders bought out with the proceeds from their Etsy shop), as well as enthusiastic intern KIT, as they teach you how to be a better woman.”

A little like Being a Dickhead Is Cool, but with a plot and aimed at the zine-making, vagina-first feminists among us. Okay partly why I laugh is because we too are involved in making a vaguely right-on feministish media thing and *cough* that editorial meeting is kind of familiar to me. [One difference though, if you do want to pitch us a story about going speed-skating with Ellen Page, we would say yes.] It’s not out and out lez, but I think you’ll see that a lot of boxes are ticked.

A couple of choice lines:

- “Like all patriarchal regimes eventually will… Gemma Magazine has fallen.”

- “All of the slurs we used against each other were gender-neutral”

- “We named the magazine vag because we wanted people to know that we have vaginas…

Okay and pretty much anything that blonde weirdy one does makes me lol too.

see more on their website: http://www.vagmagazine.tv/