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Finding solidarity in arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is very different from just disliking spiders. Izzie Price shares the reality of having the phobia, and explores its likely origins.

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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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Dangers inside and out

Eimear McBride reflects on the deadly consequences of misogyny in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard and argues why advising women to simply “stay indoors” is wrong.

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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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  • Multicoloured figures representing people courageously demonstrating solidarity with people with HIV and AIDS during Whitsun (Pentecost) 1988. Colour lithograph.
  • A big red ribbon against peaceful sunset-lit clouds; representing solidarity in Poland with HIV positive people. Colour lithograph, 200- (?).
  • Two people walking towards each other with their arms outstretched; representing solidarity with AIDS victims on World AIDS day. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.
  • Two people walking towards each other with their arms outstretched; representing solidarity with AIDS victims on World AIDS day. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian with the message in French "AIDS makes no martyr, but rather victims who suffer. Solidarity with AIDS patients"; an advertisement by [L'association] Maison des Homosexualités Rhône-Alpes. Colour lithograph.
  • Four gay men embracing; representing solidarity with the Berliner AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Jason R. Engelbart for the Berliner AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • The water tower and bridge in Mannheim enveloped by the AIDS red ribbon with the message 'Solidarity for people living with HIV and AIDS' ; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December by AIDS-Hilfe Mannheim-Ludwigshafen e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • Figures outlined in red connecting lines against a swirling grey and white bearing the name Asociación Ciudadana para la Solidaridad y Prevención del SIDA; an AIDS and HIV prevention advertisement by the Civic Association for Solidarity and AIDS Prevention. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Four rows featuring the faces of gay men and the message "Gay diversity gay solidarity"; an advertisement by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
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