We Present april 2020 link graphic We Presnt link graphic We Presnt link graphic Unexpected stories about creative minds curated and created by We Transfer. heading level 1 Editor’s choice heading level 1 Change We’re now over a month into one of the biggest changes we’ve faced as a population in recent memory. Change is a constant in life but for it to come on this quickly, and this dramatically, feels a little like a punch to the gut. It's an unnerving, weird and confusing time. By now, well intentioned morning runs have turned into a bag of peanut M and Ms for breakfast, and that one friend sharing the Shakespeare wrote King Lear in isolation, you know’ tweet has been blocked. We’re muddling through as best as we can. None of us really know what to do and that’s fine. It’ll do. We’ve got too used to living in always on’ mode, making ourselves available 24 slash 7, emails, Whats Apps, Slacks, saying we’re busy’ instead of well’ when someone asks how we are, burnout being a legitimate diagnosis. But when you think about it, justifying running ourselves into the ground in the name of productivity is quite mad isn't it? Is that progress? Perhaps taking a few steps back, albeit in difficult circumstances, creates enough distance to see what needs to change. There’s a lot out of our control right now, but what we can control is our thinking, taking some time to get to know ourselves better and maybe forming some new opinions along the way. In this new newsletter, we've gathered a few articles that we hope will help you do just that. link Holly Fraser , Editor in chief link We Present Header illustration by Marc Majewski link graphic The First Feminists link heading level 2 Bernardine Evaristo link heading level 2 The First Feminists link In our new series Literally some of this generation’s most revered writers put pen to paper link exclusively for We Present. To start, Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo introduces us to the first link feminists. right arrow link graphic The Long Goodbye link heading level 2 Riz Ahmed link heading level 2 The Long Goodbye link When this film was released in March it was brought up in the UK’s Houses of Parliament within a link week. A powerful, visceral watch, it highlights the nuances of otherness and addresses prejudice link latent in our society. right arrow graphic We look up into the exploding stars from a society we never imagined and wonder aloud – what will graphic the human race become. link graphic What makes a man? link heading level 2 Douglas Greenwood link heading level 2 What makes a man? link Man up. Now that’s a loaded phrase right there. Here Douglas Greenwood unpacks the complexity of link masculinity across the decades through photographers and their subjects. right arrow graphic We all feel like we’re not experts on our own experience. table with 12 rows and 1 columns row 1 column 1 row 2 row 3 row 4 row 5 row 6 Here are the three books Bernardine Evaristo wants you to read right now row 7 row 8 link right arrow Rain Falling by Jacob Ross link right arrow The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey link right arrow 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds by Elif Shafak row 9 row 10 row 11 row 12 out of table table with 5 rows and 1 columns row 1 column 1 row 2 Unlabeled graphic Unlabeled graphic To get missing image descriptions, open the context menu. row 3 Beautifully obvious tools to keep your ideas moving. link We Transfer , link Collect , link Paper registered , link Paste registered and link We Present dot row 4 link graphic Twitter link graphic Facebook link graphic Instagram link graphic Youtube row 5 You received this because you subscribed to updates from We Transfer. Want to take a break? link Click link here to unsubscribe dot visited link Willem Fenengastraat 19, 1096 BL Amsterdam, NL visited link 2116 Zeno Pl, Venice, CA 90291, USA