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The freedom to provoke

Jamie Hale talks to performer and director Emma Selwyn about the joy of creating work that celebrates, rather than suppresses, autistic behaviours.

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Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor

Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.

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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle

Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.

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Duelling doctors

An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.

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  • A clothed woman undresses to her underwear. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman in black underwear and an open shirt is embraced by a man holding a condom; advertisement for safe sex and condoms by Turtledove Clemens, Inc. Colour lithograph 1988.
  • A woman in white underwear strokes the hair of a man lying down wearing boxer shorts with a portable radio, their car and a fox in the undergrowth nearby; two packs of red condoms lie in a bag to the left; an Italian version of a series of Stop AIDS campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman in white underwear strokes the hair of a man lying down wearing boxer shorts with a portable radio, their car and a fox in the undergrowth nearby; two packs of red condoms lie in a bag to the left; German version of a series of safe sex 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • A lake setting in which a man lies back in a boat wearing only boxer shorts; he holds up some underwear which he offers to his female companion with a smile; a pink condom lies on a white garment beside the man while two ducks swim beside the boat; German version of a series of safe sex 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • A lake setting in which a man lies back in a boat wearing only boxer shorts; he holds up some underwear which he offers to his female companion with a smile; a pink condom lies on a white garment beside the man while two ducks swim beside the boat; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • A family demonstrating underclothes sold by "Docteur Rasurel". Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, 1911.
  • The side profile of a man wearing white Calvin Klein briefs with an 'Easy' condom packet tucked inside the top edge, the words 'boys wear' and a pink condom; ; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Lydia van Marissing and Kees Ruyter, 1994 for the SAD Schorerstichting.
  • A yellow cat crying behind bars with four smiling pink naked couples in various sexual positions below with the message in German: 'Imagine AIDS threatens us ... and all make safer sex' an advertisement for safe sex by the AHS [AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz], ASS [AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA] and AAS [Aiuto AIDS Svizzero]. Colour lithograph.
  • A man lying back in boxer shorts pulls off the briefs off the bottom of a man disappearing to the right representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
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