The movie Precious, based on Sapphire’s novel Push, was recently released into theaters and it deals with a myriad of women’s issues plaguing the film’s protagonist, Precious.  Precious is an illiterate teenager in Harlem who is pregnant with her second child by her father. The abuse does not stop with her father–her mother also sexually and physically abuses Precious. She has to face many issues that are of great concern to us here at GCNova.