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Performing my disability

Caroline Butterwick explores the idea of disability as performative, and the pressure to act out what we think others expect.

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Disabled musicians and the fight to perform

Music might be the universal language, but unfortunately it doesn’t come with universal access. London-based artist Miss Jacqui discusses the barriers to her career with Jamie Hale.

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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion

How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.

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Journeying home

A serious health scare was the catalyst to Chris beginning the process of understanding his experiences more clearly, and using that new insight to help other intersex people.

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  • Benefit performance organised by Hannöversche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph after B. Schafertöns, 1992.
  • World War I: a gymnastic performance in Amsterdam for the benefit of wounded French soldiers. Colour lithograph by A. Ost, 1918.
  • The AIDS red ribbon with details of an AIDS benefit performance at the Springmaus theatre in Bonn on Sunday 24 September 1995 by the AIDS-Hilfe Bonn. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A cathedral tower, advertising an AIDS benefit performance of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the cathedral' in Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by Ulrikka S. Gernes and Dermat Tatlow, ca. 1995, for AIDS Concern.
  • A pinned red ribbon with details of a music and dinner benefit performance in aid of the AIDS Network of Edmonton Society on Sunday, January 30, 1994. Colour lithograph by Cheryl Anne Lieberman Graphics.
  • A male dancer jumping with his body and arms horizontal representing an advertisement for an AIDS benefit performance at the AT & T Danstheater, Den Haagh [The Hague] by t.b.v. AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • A curtained stage from which a keyboard, an arrow, musical notes, a mouth, an eye and various other symbols emanate; an advertisement for a benefit cabaret performance in support of World AIDS Day on 1 December 1993 at the Frankfurter Hof, Mainz. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Coloured dancing silhouetted figures against a collage of photographs of performers and audience advertising an AIDS Dance-A-Thon on 26 November 1994 to benefit the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Craig Miller, Richard Zeichik and Associates after Keith Haring.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
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