Logan Magazine
I’ve just gotten my second issue of a magazine for “young people,” which I’m thinking means middle school through high school. But I think I just may subscribe. It’s Logan Magazine, published in Spokane, Washington, and it will set me back $14 for a year’s quarterly subscription of slender issues.
So why would I do that? A sudden attack of delayed adolescence? (Because, after all, as looking at birthdates reminds me, I am old enough to be a college student’s mother!) More like a delayed reward for the girl I used to be — because Logan Magazine is “fashion and lifestyle for young people with disabilities.”
We really have come a long way since I was longingly looking at the girls in Seventeen wishing just one of them had braces that weren’t on her teeth. Leafing through the summer issue, I see the recipes, fashions, and shopping guides that are so key in women’s magazines. But the emphasis is on simple and adaptive, without being obviously “special.”
Although the editors say they hope the magazine will appeal to both sexes, I think Logan is a little pink, figuratively and literally, for guys. However, I’m glad to see the young men who are profiled in this issue. Maybe I’m wrong, and even if only girls read Logan, they need to see guys with disabilities as being “roll models,” potential friends, and crushes, too. Or so I see it.
Because the magazine is founded in Washington, some of the advertisements and services are slanted in that direction… but there’s something here for most everyone. Check it out.
