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Celebrating our soft toys
| Elspeth Wilsonthe participantsBenjamin Gilbert
After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.
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How we bury our children
| Wendy PrattThomas S G Farnetti
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
| Erin BeestonNaomi Williams
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
| Gwendolyn SmithThomas S G Farnetti
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.