This week at Capitol Hill Art Walk, editor Emily Orrson is launching The Magazine of Glamorous Refusal, a 32-page art and culture mag that celebrates women for saying "no" in a world that conditions them to say "yes" to everything.

"Saying no doesn't have to feel disappointing or divisive. Saying no doesn't even have to be a negative," Orrson writes on the inside cover. "Often when you say no to others, you are saying yes to something inside yourself."

I wish we could have sent a couple copies to Susan Collins before her vote on Friday, but such is life.

Refusal explodes with gorgeous, full-color photography featuring defiant femmes doing weird shit. One woman holds a gold umbrella against a storm of gold-dipped tampons. Another tosses a toaster on a chain. A photo of a model smashing a wedding cake with a tennis racket by Victoria Kovios generally sums up the magazine's governing thesis and aesthetic. "It's a very glamorous refusal of the tradition of marriage," Orrson said of the cake photo over the phone. "There's an expectation that you have this very expensive wedding cake, and a very expensive wedding, and the model just smashes that whole thing to smithereens."

The photos are good enough to stand on their own, but they also serve as clever visual introductions to articles from Cosmopolitan editor Jessica Goodman, Glamour's Katie Sanders, poems by Seattle Civic Poet Anastacia-Renée and Orrson herself, and a nope-themed astrology section.

Goodman's short piece about ways around the Pink Tax, "a little-known extra charge tacked onto female-branded items," seems particularly useful. As does the brief Q&A with John Tsungme Guy, which is about "Gender Equity and Reconciliation," a therapeutic process that helps people accept a broader range of gender presentations.

Orrson hopes her humorous and high-spirited approach helps a larger audience engage with the problem of féminin oblige. "I’m tired of being angry and depressed with this administration," she said. "The magazine deals with refusal in a goofy, absurdist, pop art way that has brought some levity to a very serious issue."

Starting the magazine is personal for Orrson. "My first word was no, but since then it's been increasingly hard to say," she said. "For me it’s kind of a daily battle of saying no, because I’m so sensitive to letting people down or feeling like I’m disappointing others."

Orrson says the magazine is the best way for her personally to "activate the message" of nopeness, one that allows her to continue to address the topic as it evolves over time.

The magazine will operate out of a pop-up shop at the back of the Artificial Limb building on 14th and Pike. During the month of October, Refusal will host several events, including $10 yoga classes, free meditation sessions, a "Ladies* Skate Night," art shows, and drag shows.

For now, Refusal will publish twice a year, but Orrson hopes to ramp up to quarterly production. She's starting with an initial run of 1,500 copies, which will be available for purchase online, at the pop-up shop, and at select newsstands near you.