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What is hysteria?

Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies

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What writing myself has revealed

Caroline Butterwick talks to two creators about how lived experience feeds their art, and reflects on her own year of writing about her life.

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Butch drag in the builders’ caff

Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.

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Domestic titans

Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.

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  • A variety of shells, including porcellain shells, oyster shells and marina shells. Etching by I. Taylor.
  • Conchology: shells
  • A variety of shells, cone-shells, fossils and corals. Coloured lithograph.
  • Sselection of shells
  • Spanish amulet; shells.
  • Illustration of shells.
  • Illustration of shells.
  • A variety of shells, including heart shells, tubuli and balani. Etching by I. Taylor.
  • A variety of shells, including limpets, turbines and trumpet-shells. Etching by I. Taylor.
  • Prehistoric amulets, fossil, perforated shells.
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