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Surviving as an asexual person in a heteronormative world

Experiencing no sexual attraction led Seleena Laverne Daye to feel she was somehow failing as an adult. But she found a way to claim her identity and to thrive.

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Six personal health zines that might change your life

Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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Sick of the theatre

What makes the stage a good place to share real-life experiences of ill health?

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  • Wonderful adventures : a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America.
  • Wonderful adventures : a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America.
  • Wonderful adventures : a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America.
  • Fifty years in public health : a personal narrative with comments / by Sir Arthur Newsholme.
  • My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion / [Mary Ashton Livermore].
  • My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion / [Mary Ashton Livermore].
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  • 13th self-portrait.
  • Broken windmill.
  • 3rd self-portrait.
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