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The 17-year-old US artist Panteha Abareshi struggles with sickle cell disease, a chronic pain condition that prevents her from exerting herself physically, and frequently involves severe anxiety and depression. Her emotionally raw and graphically vibrant art confronts the role of pain and vulnerability in her life, depicting unflinching and unapologetic ‘physical manifestations’ of her inner struggles that she ‘can’t quite verbalise’. Through her work, she aims to both increase the visibility of women of colour dealing with mental illness, and to fight against the notion that pain is something that can simply be thought away.
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Family life
One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poignant metaphor
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Film and visual culture
Our world has very different contours when a millimetre is blown up to a full screen
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War and peace
A frontline soldier’s moving account of the fabled ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914
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Bioethics
What a 1970 experiment reveals about the possibility and perils of ‘head transplants’
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History of technology
Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy
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Animals and humans
The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net
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Technology and the self
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Beauty and aesthetics
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Childhood and adolescence
The police camp where tween girls enter a sisterhood of law and order
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