The publication 'committed to sharing the perspectives of people of colour' is closing after eight years.
Kemi Alemoru was gal-dem's culture editor for seven years and says she saw the publication as "a home for my ideas".
"As soon as I saw what gal-dem was doing or trying to do, it just automatically made sense to me," she says. "I think anybody trying to navigate the creative industries from our community understands that we are coming up against a lot of challenges.""We just weren't seeing things that matter to us or catered to our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, loves and challenges."
Kemi believes gal-dem enabled writers to "have confidence in your ideas and that certain things matter to an audience". The 28-year-old says she was devastated when she was told the magazine was closing down but is proud of the impact it had."Getting to eight years is such an achievement and seeing that reaction of all the people who'd had their first bylines or we wrote about their work first or they met people and made friends.
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