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Transitioning and the family album

“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”

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Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

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When a private pee is a public disgrace

The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.

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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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  • Personal hygiene to prevent sickness in children in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and Unicef, ca. 2000.
  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • The importance of personal hygiene practices to avoid sickness in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by Graphics Design for ADA and Oxfam, ca. 2000.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: hygiene
  • Salish girl wearing the fir boughs and goat's wool blanket that signify her adolescence
  • Pomander with three toilet instruments attached. Silver. Includes toothpick and ear-scoop.
  • Set of bottles for holding scent or other preparations
  • Girl with hair specially braided to mark end of adolescence
  • Neolithic clay stamps for applying design on the body.
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