“Rise” Edition #02, Letter from the Editor

When we launched six months ago, our Breathe edition was a conscious and quiet invitation to pause, to rest, to reflect. The world has felt increasingly urgent and overstimulated for so long now, and so many of you reached out to tell me we desperately needed that moment to be still. Because it’s only in stillness that we can hear what’s next. That we can gather the clarity and courage to meet our challenges head on. So this next edition is about that very step we all need to take, to Rise. 

Rise isn’t about constant movement or self-optimisation. 

It’s about choosing – deliberately, gently, and with faith – to move towards something higher. Not louder, not faster, but deeper. It’s about showing up with purpose, planting seeds, and trusting in what will grow, even when you don’t know how things may end.

When headlines are more and more dystopian by the day, and the world seems more fragile and fragmented than ever, we need more than just outrage. We need women who can imagine, plan and grow beyond the noise. Who can respond not only with resistance, but with renewal. Who know that lasting change often starts quietly, underground, like roots. That’s the spirit running through every page of this edition.

Our cover feature spotlights Leanne Mohamad, the British-Palestinian activist and independent political candidate who, at just 24, came narrowly close to unseating a major party MP. But more than that, she represents something even more powerful: a new kind of persona. One that’s deeply principled, shaped by lived experience, and unapologetically clear about her values. She’s been doing this work for years, often away from media attention but when the time came, she stepped up again and again. 

Not for status, but for something much more important. Representation, justice, and hope.

You’ll see different interpretations of rising across the magazine in all our features. Every single one is intentional, a quiet rebellion or a public stance — not through dominance or visibility, but through care, clarity, and long-term vision. As women, we’re redefining our methods as something more feminine, more rooted: stewardship over spectacle, growth over ego. Together, these stories ask: what does it mean to rise? To grow in a way that doesn’t burn us out or hollow us, but anchors us more deeply in who we are and what we stand for?

Rise doesn’t ask you to be everything. It doesn’t demand reinvention overnight. It simply asks you to listen. To notice where you’re being called to move. And to respond. Slowly, steadily, in your own way.

There’s power in that. Especially now.

With love and rising hope,

S x