Xiaowei Wang Co-Editor of Logic Magazine
Congratulations and best wishes to Xiaowei Wang who will co-lead Logic Magazine's pivot to becoming the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine with collaborator and Director of We Be Imagining, J. Khadijah Abdurahman.
From the announcement:
In January 2023, Logic will transfer leadership of the magazine to one of the founding staff members, Xiaowei Wang, and Director of We Be Imagining, J. Khadijah Abdurahman. This will mark the beginning of the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine. Black, Asian, and queer are not only descriptors of our individual identities but also mark the kind of theoretical and political approaches we hope to infuse this next chapter with. Logic(s) will retain the core commitments of the magazine’s founding while laying the groundwork to radically shift both the tech journalism genre and dominant publishing models. The Beacons issue of December 2021 was a pilot model for what this transition will look like: deeply interdisciplinary (poetry, visual art, and sci-fi on the same axis as the long-form essay); an ongoing invitation to fields traditionally outside of tech which offer a set of methods and tools to think through the social implications of digital technologies and data collection. Two core commitments of this transition are “marrying our thought to the poor” and increasing engagement with international issues—particularly an emphasis on Asia and the African continent.
Huge congrats to Xiaowei and J. Khadijah. We wish you all the best in this exciting new chapter!
For the full announcement, read here.