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The Skin of Others: when Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson
The Skin of Others explores the meeting between Douglas Grant, an Indigenous activist and first world war veteran, and the famous Australian author Henry Lawson which took place at Lawson’s north Sydney home in 1921. Drawing from papers...
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The martial arts fighter with Down's syndrome battling for the right to fight
Garrett Holeve (aka G Money) has always dreamt of being a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, and with the full support of his parents, prepares to fight another disabled opponent. But Florida authorities deemed the contest a health risk....
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Leonora Carrington: Britain's lost surrealist
Leonora Carrington escaped a stultifying Lancashire childhood to run off with Max Ernst and hang out with Picasso and André Breton in 1930s Paris. She fled the Nazis, escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Spain and became a national...
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Pressure to procreate: inside Hungary’s baby drive
Hungary has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe, and the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is spending significant money trying to convince young people to have babies. Leah Green and Ekaterina Ochagavia visit Budapest, where they meet...
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Rubbish at algebra? Take Jonny's maths masterclass
It's not only tricky to teach – pupils often simply don't see the point of algebra. Maths teacher Jonny Heeley gives an algebra masterclass to an audience of year 10 students from three London schools and starts by amazing them when he...
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Cinema of Ukraine: artists reflect on modern history, culture and people
The Guardian is celebrating Ukrainian cinema with a specially curated selection of documentaries, made before the current war. Presented in collaboration with the Kyiv-based Docudays UA film festival, these award-winning movies offer...
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Saintmaking: the canonisation of Derek Jarman by queer 'nuns'
This year marks the 30th anniversary of film-maker Derek Jarman’s canonisation by an activist group of gay male 'nuns' known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. At the time in 1991, Derek Jarman was the most prominent person in the...
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RIP SENI: racism, graffiti and the UK's mental health crisis
One morning in June 2020, graffiti reading RIP SENI appeared emblazoned across a public artwork outside the Bethlem royal hospital, a psychiatric hospital in south London. The spray-painted letters drew attention to Olaseni Lewis, a...
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Beirut Dreams in Colour
Mashrou’ Leila were one of the biggest bands in the Middle East, with a lead singer, Hamed, who is the most prominent openly gay rock star in the Arab world. Known globally, their gigs were regular sell-out successes until an event at...
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Owen Jones goes to Glastonbury: 'The queer corner is for getting off with people
Is there more to Glastonbury festival than a massive party in the sun? Owen Jones spent a few days at Worthy Farm finding out how trans activists cut through at a rave, how women are leading discussions and whether people can talk...
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Belarus: personal stories from a country in turmoil
Mass protests erupted across Belarus following the widely disputed election that put President Alexander Lukashenko in office for a sixth term. Three Belarusian filmmakers have documented personal stories of those caught up in the...
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The Iraqi girls who escaped from Isis
When Isis militants invaded Sinjar in Iraq they took many young Yazidi women and girls – some as young as nine years old – as sexual slaves and forced them to convert to Islam. These two women escaped and returned to their home village...
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Artist Doris Salcedo on Bogotá: 'The forces at work here are brutal'
‘Art cannot explain things but it can expose them – that’s why art here is so important and necessary,’ says Doris Salcedo as she takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio. The Colombian sculptor’s works are poetic memorials to the...
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Sudanese artist on US road trip: 'The story of civil rights is unfinished
Khalid Albaih, a Sudanese political cartoonist who lives in Qatar, is taking a road trip across the US with 10 Middle Eastern artists, collectively known as Culturunners. A black Muslim, he explores race, politics, the American civil...
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The weight of light: how gravity is illuminating sub-Saharan Africa
Off-grid communities such as those in sub-Saharan Africa can pay thousands of times as much as the rest of us for their energy. Designer Jim Reeves has developed a simple, low-cost gear-train and generator that uses a descending weight...
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The truth about Tehran, by artist Nazgol Ansarinia: 'It's building a fantasy future'
The Tehran municipality’s ‘bureau of beautification’ has painted hundreds of murals across the city, showing blue skies and idealised countryside images – even as the capital bulldozes its traditional buildings. Award-winning artist...
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Juste Debout: the world's biggest street-dance competition – video
Dancers from all over the world compete in the international tour of Juste Debout in the hope that they will get the chance to battle in the preliminary rounds in France and perform at the finals in Paris. This year, for the first time,...
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Love and dementia: 'Grandad's like a naughty five-year-old
Dominic Sivyer’s grandparents are coming to terms with his grandfather’s early onset of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. His sense of humour remains intact, but the deterioration of his memory is putting a strain on their...
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The three illegal weapons bought over Amazon.co.uk
Britain is supposed to have some of the tightest laws on offensive weapons and firearms in the world. But if you know what you’re looking for, there’s an illegal arsenal just a click away on Amazon.co.uk. Among the items offered for sale...
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Generation HIV: the young Britons born HIV positive
In Britain there’s a unique group of young people who’ve had HIV all their lives. They were born in the 90s, when mother-to-child transmission couldn’t be prevented, but HIV positive babies could survive. No other generation will ever...
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Ai Weiwei on Beijing: 'It's a prison for freedom of speech
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing but spent the first 18 years of his life in exile with his family. He now lives and works in the capital, far from the centre but under constant surveillance. In the first of this new series...
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Antony Gormley: 'London is bought, developed and abandoned'
The Turner prize-winning sculptor Antony Gormley is known for placing casts of his own naked body around cities. Now in our special Guardian Cities / Tate series, he takes us on an intimate tour inside ‘his’ London, gives us an exclusive...
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It's my body of armour: my life as a female bodybuilder
Pro-bodybuilder Rene Campbell, 38, is ‘bigorexic’ – devoted to making herself as large as possible by cooking the right kind of food and training as much as she can. Her relentless pursuit of an ever-bigger body gives her self-esteem....
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Street children from around the world: 'Football helps kids take the right path'
There are an estimated 150 million street children around the world. We speak to young people from Pakistan, Burundi and Brazil about the role sport has had in getting them off the streets