“I spent some time for myself, stripping away this caricature that I created, because I’d started believing that it was true.”
There is one thing that Pamela Anderson is sure of, and it’s that life is full of change. “You start thinking back to the reality – what was I doing 30 years ago? What was my perspective on the world?” With the PamNaissance in full swing, she’s “a very different person now”.
From her critically acclaimed role in The Last Showgirl to speaking out about the causes that inspire her and her brand-new plant-based cooking show, this is Pamela Anderson standing in her power.
In this issue, Pamela Anderson is ready for her closeup: her second act is only just beginning.
More highlights in this edition:
Kay Kerr dances like nobody’s watching, reconnecting with herself and her love of dance after receiving an autism diagnosis. You can read the excerpt from the anthology Someone Like Me
English indie rocker Pete Doherty pens the letter to his younger self that he couldn’t write in rehab, and says that he’d be “well impressed” with everything he’s accomplished
Andrea Goldsmith speaks to us about the freedom of fiction and writing her way through grief for her latest book The Buried Life
Funnyman Ross Noble tells us that nothing says “luxury” quite like a Prawn Cocktail in Tastes Like Home
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The Big Issue 30th Anniversary Edition 763 is choc full of
very interesting and informative articles.
I particularly liked vendor Marion's pictorial of Melbourne's
Queen Victoria Market and the CBD.
The next time you see a vendor do them
and yourself a favour. Buy a Big Issue magazine.
I particularly wanted to read the Rose Byrne piece who was featured on the front cover of The Big Issue, Edition 758.
But, more importantly I enjoyed many of the other features in this magazine, in particular, the archive piece on Heath Ledger, the inspiring piece from Deborah Lawrie with her letter to her younger self and Shaun Micallef personal discussion on AI. Thank you for serving up such an interesting magazine.
I must admit I purchased this edition as my son had an article printed in it. When I was looking for this edition I spoke to one of the lovely sellers in the city and he was so helpful looking to see if the article was in that edition.
Since then I have found out a lot more about the Big Issue and how they help disadvantaged Australians to become more independent and I think they are awesome.
Overall the magazine is very professionally set out and of course has some great articles. Love reading about the sellers
I love The Big Issue calendars and have been buying the every year I can since they started. I missed out locally this time so was very happy to be able to buy it online, thereby avoiding a whole year of FOMO
CALENDAR: I love the alternating pages, where month A is a cartoon by Andrew Weldon, and month B is a profile of a Big Issue seller.
FICTION EDITION: 12 short stories, including one by Trent Dalton (Boy Swallows Universe)
I've been buying the Big Issue for many years (though not 30). I live in Wollongong, I don't remember seeing a vendor here, but I have often bought a copy when I have to go to Sydney for work. I always enjoy reading it on the train on my way home, as well as feeling good that I have done something to help somebody to help themselves. Love your work, all the best for the next 30 years!
TBH…
As a ‘there at the start’ contributor, think it would’ve been good to show some of the ‘early’ editions and people who helped make TBI what it has become…
Behind the ‘sellers’ is a lot of pre-production content…