A new independent print magazine for women in midlife · Coming soon · join the ‘riff
Not your mother’s midlife.
Creative, embodied, unapologetic missives from life’s middle.
magazines are back (and so are we).
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Be first to know when Issue No. 001 is on press. Early subscribers get founding-reader pricing, a behind-the-scenes build log, and first dibs on events, collabs and merch.
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Why Midriff
When midlife women are made invisible, the stories don't vanish. They go underground.
Midriff is a biannual print magazine exploring the creative, intellectual, and embodied lives of women in midlife and beyond. We expand the map of midlife, tracing the surprising ways this chapter unfolds and giving our readers both the language and the landmarks to navigate together.
We’re here to dig the stories up, polish them, and put them back in print.
Expect
Smart, beautifully designed stories about self-expression, reinvention, community, creativity and identity.
Perspective
From the cultural core — emotional depth, intersectional feminist flare, and a refusal to disappear.
Feel
Tactile pleasure you can spread across the kitchen table. Not one more thing to scroll past.
Inside
The inner life.
Intimate, psychological, mythic, poetic. The private interior we rarely say out loud.
Dreams · Memory · Identity · Grief · Nostalgia · Creativity · Desire
Outside
Everything out there.
Artful, experiential, embodied, outward-facing. The life we’re building and responding to in every minute.
Style · Place · Power · Relationships · Visibility · Legacy
When we document the middle, we create a new mirror. Not a reflection of who we used to be, but a portal into a new becoming.
— Midriff, Concept Statement
Founder’s Note:
I’ve spent twenty years publishing other people’s voices and building media for women in the middle of their most interesting ideas. Midriff is the magazine I’ve been waiting for — and the one I’d like to hand you across a kitchen table.
If that sounds like your kind of reading, put yourself on the list. We’ll keep it honest, infrequent, and worth opening
– Crosby Noricks, Founder & Editor
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