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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty

Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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  • Advertisement for Sketofax insect repellent
  • Tametomo repelling the smallpox from the island of Oshima
  • Mosquito repellent oil contained in a drip-barrel. Photograph, 1910.
  • A man goes into a barn and opens a rat trap; a rat jumps put and bites him on the chin. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A mosquito, and a bottle of Veha anti-mosquito lotion: advertisement for the lotion. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • A dying rat, mourned by three other rats; advertising Tord-Boyaux rat poison. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • Chemorepulsion of DRG sensory neuron
  • Should these clouds gather in your holiday sky, try : 'Marzine' ...
  • Camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora): flowering branch and floral segments. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, after W. Müller.
  • Artemisia abrotanum (Southernwood)
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