This essay was written in response to Barbara Hammer’s Nitrate Kisses (see left), for Document Film Festival. Some of the ideas were adapted from the author’s book A Nazi Word for A Nazi Thing. I want to start by thanking Sam Kenyon and all of the Document Film Festival team for this […]
In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about the men in my life: ex-boyfriends, ex-stalkers, ex-harassers, ex-gropers. My friends and I looked back, fitfully, in agitation, at the things we had endured, […]
I used to say that, in the film of my life, Keanu would play the starring role. Most people don’t realise he’s mixed race. Keanu Reeves’s father is Hawaiian-Chinese—hence his name, Hawaiian for ‘cool breeze over the mountains’—but since he passes as white that’s how people think of him.A high-school friend says that ‘if you […]
Today we took a glamourous publishing trip to Croydon to mark a moment in history – to watch copies of Will Harris’ Mixed-Race Superman being pressed by our printers, CPI. Mixed-Race Superman will be published on 17th May. We will be celebrating the launch at Burley Fisher Books on 24th May. Click here for more […]
Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to our kickstarter campaign to bring our press to life in 2018, funding five new titles to be published throughout the year. Over the 4 week campaign, thanks to your generosity, we raised a total of £7863, far exceeding our target of £6000. This will enable us […]