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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching
| Ngunan AdamuAmaal Said
Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
| Aparna NairTracy Satchwill
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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The girl with no name
| Paul Craddock
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
- Photo story
- Photo story
‘My Hair Is Not…’
| Inés Yearwood-Sanchez
Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.