The Big Issue #297 discovers that Miss SA 2020 uses her celebrity status to confront all forms of bullying, exposing behaviour that culminates in long-term mental health issues.
Brightening Instagram’s already colour-saturated world, Shudufhadzo (Shudu) Musida is using her Miss SA 2020 title and influence to shine a spotlight on all aspects of mental health in a series of weekly Instagram broadcasts titled Mindful Mondays.
Here are some other highlights from The Big Issue #297
- Kids online. What you don’t know
“I trust my child,” a parent once declared, eyes ablaze, when I enquired about her 10-year-old’s top-of-the-range all-access smartphone. “Yes,” I nodded. “But do you trust the internet?”.
- Vendor Art
Elaine Millin, Big Issue’s Vendor Art Facilitator hosts creative days for their vendors. Their artwork is for sale.
- Exploring the politics of identity
Thania Petersen is the latest artist in residence at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Her film Kassaram is being screened in her studio during her residency. Editor-in-Chief of Weekend Special, Karen Rutter, visits her in her new private space
- University of Crime
An intimate look inside Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison. Documentary photographer Bernadette McCabe takes us on a visual journey of the human side of prison depravity.
Buy today and enjoy a good weekend read!
WHAT: The Big Issue #297
WHEN & WHERE: 22 June – 19 July 2021
Available from your favourite vendors across the city. Anyone outside the city of Cape Town can buy the magazine at selected Spar and Pick n Pay stores. Anyone outside of Cape Town can buy the magazine here.
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For more information, visit www.bigissue.org.za or contact: Editorial: Editor Glynis O’Hara, 021-461-6690 or glynisoh@gmail.co.za; Advertising/Marketing: Derek Carelse at derekcarelse@mweb.co.za
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The Big Issue #297 discovers that Miss SA 2020 uses celebrity status to confront bullying that culminates in long-term mental health issues
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