PRE-ORDER #15 The 'I Support You' Issue – Jordan Stephens

“Against the backdrop of Gen-Z boys and girls globally showing increasingly divergent attitudes towards gender roles, the rise of red-pilled influencers in the manosphere, and a growing urgency around how we can bridge the ever-widening gender divide, Jordan Stephens is just the person I want to speak to,” says @cheerupluv founder @elizahatch.

“Alongside a successful music career as one half of British hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks, Jordan has written a series of children’s books with illustrator Beth Suzanna, has made his theatre debut in Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Young Vic and, more recently, published an acclaimed memoir looking at modern masculinity and reflecting on trauma. Over the past decade, he has advocated for greater awareness and support for men's mental health, while also becoming a key ally in the gender equality movement. As someone who also rallies against the limits of traditional gender stereotypes, Jordan and I have often found ourselves in many of the same rooms.”

For BRICKS ‘I Support You’ issue, Eliza and Jordan sit down to discuss the manosphere, modern masculinity, and why empathy is the only way forward.

PHOTOGRAPHY Radhika Muthanna 
CREATIVE DIRECTION Tori West 
'BOYS PLAY' (2025) TV ARTWORK BY Trackie McLeod
PRODUCTION Chiara Maculan 
STYLING Baillie Jones 
GROOMING Keziah Cader 
SOCIALS & GRAPHICS Richie Barker 
PHOTO ASSISTANT Isabella Armora 
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Lia Matos 
SPECIAL THANKS TO Ditto Mgmt 
INTRODUCTION Eliza Hatch, founder of Cheer Up Luv

Pre-orders from the BRICKS shop are currently available for customers in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. If you are based in the EU or elsewhere internationally, copies will be available to order through our international stockist Antenne Books from late April, once the issue arrives back from the printers.

Pre-orders will be shipped by 27th April.