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Crones

Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.

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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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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman

How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.

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Mask, ritual and fertility

Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.

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  • Rubberstuffers condoms and lubricant : Summer Rites 97 / RS Health Ltd.
  • Rubberstuffers condoms and lubricant : Summer Rites 97 / RS Health Ltd.
  • New Zealand: Maori funeral rites. Albumen print.
  • A priest gives a dying man his last rites. Coloured woodcut, 1493.
  • A dying man is given the last rites by two Franciscan monks. Etching.
  • Russian Nihilists are given the last rites before their execution at the scaffold. Wood engraving.
  • A dying man in bed being read the last rites. Lithograph by F. Piloty after L. Bramer.
  • Dionysian rites: a pig being sacrificed. Photograph, ca. 1870 (?), of a Roman (marble ?) bas-relief.
  • A death-bed scene of man being read his last rites surrounded by his family, the priest and courtiers. Etching.
  • Witchcraft and magic: a man conducting magic rites, devils and a ghost appearing, and a hunter cowering in terror. Coloured etching.
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