Ad-Free, Print-Only and Profitable, Kazoo Is Pushing Girls to Think Bigger

As is very often the case with great ideas, it was first inspired among the bookshelves. Browsing Barnes & Noble one day in the Spring of 2016, Erin Bried—an industry vet whose lengthy Condé Nast career had come to a layoff-induced end just months earlier—was disappointed by the retailer's selection of magazines aimed at girls like her daughter, who was five-years-old at the time. "It was 'Frozen' and 'My Little Pony,' and all of these teeny bopper magazines with stories about having good manners and pretty hair and navigating friend drama," Bried tells Folio:. "It kind of simmered with me. I felt there was so much more that we could offer girls; there’s such a bigger, brighter vision of the world with so much more possibility, and no one was showing them that." As the days and weeks wore on, that moment in the newsstand aisle—and the idea that all girls, including Bried's own two daughters, deserved to be shown a world in which they could grow up to be not a princess or a pop star, but a scientist or a senator—simply wouldn't leave her mind. "I kept turning it over and over until I realized that I shouldn’t just wait for somebody else to do it," Bried says. "If you want to see something change, change it yourself. Having spent my entire career as a magazine editor, I thought, who better than me?" Aimed at girls aged 5–12 and attracting contributors like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Goodall and Ellen DeGeneres—and most recently honored as the first-ever children's title... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]

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