Because Timothee Chalamet’s eyes gleam with the light of a thousand suns. Because you’d let Zoë Kravitz get away with putting gum in your hair. And because there really should be a national monument dedicated to Gene Kelly’s ass.
From the tongue-in-cheek to the righteously enraged, She Found it at the Movies explores women’s secret desires, teen crushes, and one-sided movie star love affairs, flipping the switch on a century of cinema’s male-gaze domination. With misogyny and sexism still taking centre stage in the real world -- what can women’s relationships with movies tell us about the wider landscape of sexuality, politics and culture?
Featuring writers you know and love from BuzzFeed, The Guardian, Vulture and more, these essays pose thoughtful questions about the politics of desire. Like a guilt-free chat with your smartest girlfriends, this book is a positive celebration of female sexuality at its thirstiest.
Edited by Christina Newland.
Breaking Out in Prison
“My grandfather went to Sing Sing. My father, my uncle, my brother went to Sing Sing. I went to Sing Sing."
Poor schools. Violent neighborhoods. Easy drugs. No jobs. No support. No options. In the disadvantaged communities of urban America, the cradle-to-prison pipeline locks young men out of opportunity long before it locks them up.
Meet 15 men doing something about it—15 men who got an education inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, and used it to break out of the cycle. Today, they are role models for young men in their communities. And they are here to put a human face on effective solutions to ending the epidemic of mass incarceration in America today.
By: Babita Patel
Red Press named as one of the Top 100 Changemakers in the UK by The Big Issue!
This January, The Big Issue devoted an entire issue to the thinkers, creators and agitators changing the world in 2019. We are honoured to lead the Literacy Category, and to be recognised alongside so many other amazing organisations and individuals bringing a social justice lens to the worlds of art, tech, health, journalism, business, housing, and more.
