Stories
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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
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Lustmord and the three perspectives of murder
Artist Jenny Holzer's work shines a light on the three perspectives of sexual murder: the victim, the perpetrator and the observer.
Catalogue
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Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 / Andrea Major.
Major, AndreaDate: 2012
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Slavery in the Sudan: people fastened at the neck to wooden clamps are being led away into slavery in Egypt. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after K. Girardet.
Girardet, Karl, 1813-1871.Date: [1866]Reference: 43338i- Books
Medicine, nutrition, demography, and slavery / edited with an introduction by Paul Finkelman.
Date: 1989- Books
Fathers, daughters, and slaves : women writers and French colonial slavery / Doris Y. Kadish.
Kadish, Doris Y.Date: 2012- Books
Visualising slavery : art across the African diaspora / edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah Durkin.
Date: 2016