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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
| Imani Jacqueline BrownFungai Marima
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
| Jill BurkeSteven Pocock
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
| Ngunan AdamuAmaal Said
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
| Dr Lindsey FitzharrisKathleen Arundell
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.