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Losing touch

In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.

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Sigrid Rausing’s prescription for writing

The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘Stay With Me’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.

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Father of the house

Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.

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Succumbing to stimming in dance

As a child, Susanna Dye felt ashamed of their need to stim, but has found a way to incorporate these repetitive movements into their creative practice as a dancer and facilitator.

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  • How AIDS does not spread: a hand shake, hugging, a table with food, and a male and female toilet. Colour lithograph 1986.
  • Two people hugging, with list of ways of taking care for people with HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph for the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada.
  • Two people hugging, with list of ways of taking care for people with HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph for the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada.
  • A couple hugging representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health, Mozambique. Colour lithograph by Luis Cardosa, ca. 1996.
  • Ways in which you cannot catch the HIV virus from hugging to telephones; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph.
  • Positive and negative paintings of children hugging each other, referring to children who are HIV positive or negative. Colour silk screen print after M. Dumas, 1993.
  • A pregnant woman infected with HIV wearing a figure hugging vest representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS Secretariat and AIDS Hotline. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Pope John Paul II hugging a child against a backdrop of christ holding out his hands to people below him; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Catholic Commision on AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Verso: two people hugging with list of ways of taking care from washing your hands to compassionate care for people with HIV/AIDS (English version); part of a project by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph.
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