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Belonging, babies and self-belief

As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.

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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion

How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.

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Ways appear

While his sense of body shame meant the personal side of his life was unfulfilled, Chris’s career was rewarding. His own childhood experiences gave him profound empathy for the children he worked with.

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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable

Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.

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  • World AIDS Conference : free treatment information feedback sessions / presented by NAM and The Network of Self-Help HIV & AIDS Groups.
  • World AIDS Conference : free treatment information feedback sessions / presented by NAM and The Network of Self-Help HIV & AIDS Groups.
  • A figure in green within a circle; advertisement for the self-help group Body Positive for people with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • The line drawn back view of a woman representing an advertisement for a therapeutic self-help group for women with HIV and AIDS by the Berliner AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • The huddled figure of a man representing an advertisement for the self-help group, Kursiv for gay men with HIV and AIDS suffering from alcohol problems and dependence on drugs. Lithograph, ca. 1993.
  • Body Positive.
  • Support Body Positive.
  • The War Widows Association of Great Britain [sticker].
  • A bird with outstretched wings representing the Stichting de Regenboog (the Rainbow Foundation for the care of the homeless and drug-addicted) with the repeated word 'AIDS', 'drugs' and 'buddy'. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
  • +VE : will you talk to him about HIV or will you just use a condom? / RS Health Ltd.
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