Homelessness, survival, resistance

Friend of Big Issue 10Foot is back – with exclusive cover art to mark the Museum of Homelessness’s latest exhibition. The acclaimed graffiti writer has assembled a group of guest contributors to explore, via essays, poetry and even a fictionalised news report, the history of criminalising something that shouldn’t be seen as a crime. Criminal: An Untold Story of Homelessness, Resistance and Survival is showing at the Museum of Homelessness in Finsbury Park, and 10Foot sits down with MoH co-directors Jess and Matt Turtle to talk about their inspiration for the collaboration, the meaning behind his first-ever sculpture, Faerie Newbuild, and the 16th century poem that inspired it.

Also inside

• New research has found that 21,000 disabled children are living in temporary accommodation – a number that had previously gone under the radar
• Readers respond to our recent story of vendors and their dogs going to parliament, with their own tales of canine companionship
• Garbage singer Shirley Manson recalls the moment when music sprinkled magic into her life
• How Blu-ray is bringing a new generation back to the video rental shop
• Tanya Reynolds is Ted Lasso‘s latest signing, but first she’s appearing in a play about trickle-down misogyny in Tudor times
• Yorkshire band The Reytons have gone back to their (grass)roots to level the playing field for the next generation
• The Leicester Riders are taking basketball to schools, to help young people bounce back with hope and opportunity
• And we hear from three street paper writers in Dallas about what hosting the World Cup means for their city

And much more

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