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Lonely bodies are hungry for more than turkey

At Christmas, many charities provide dinners for homeless or isolated people. Food is central to festive celebrations, but it can also satisfy our hunger for belonging and community.

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The housing that gives hope to refugees

A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.

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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

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We are from here, but not from here

Novelist JJ Bola on being a refugee with a British passport and what that placenessless means for a search for identity.

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  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 6, Homelessness / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 6, Homelessness / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 6, Homelessness / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 6, Homelessness / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 6, Homelessness / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 6, Homelessness / Immunity.
  • Tiles found in the new wards for homeless poor, Whitechapel, 1866. Watercolour painting.
  • A man on a bench tells a policeman that his local hospital has no room for him, while other hospitals cannot help him because he is not local. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Ospedale del Ceppo, Pistoia: part of the sculpted relief of the works of mercy. Photograph by Alinari, 18--.
  • Housing & social work services : housing services for people with HIV / Southwark Council.
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