Volume 44.04 Winter 2015 Extras Archives

Rachael Jolley: Threats to reaching knowledge: why libraries play a vital role

Rachael Jolley, editor of Index on Censorship magazine in a speech to the §2 – Libraries and Democracy conference in Umea, Sweden.

Index panel debates taboos of sex, race and hairy legs

by Josie Timms | 28 Jan 16

“When I went to the Loaded offices with hairy legs they told me to get out and that I could never be on the cover because apparently I’d made an effort with my nails but not my legs

T0ad: “Pornography is the sacred veil covering the plain (non-sexual) body”

by Index on Censorship | 15 Jan 16

All over the world there are taboos that stop things being discussed, when a discussion might make people aware of a problem and sometimes

27 Jan: What’s the taboo? Index magazine launch debate

by Index on Censorship | 02 Jan 16

Join us to celebrate the launch of What’s the Taboo? – Index’s latest magazine featuring stories of the most controversial subjects from around the world and how we are afraid to tackle them

Ariel Dorfman interview: Writer unveils new short story lost after Chilean coup

by Vicky Baker | 17 Dec 15

Fifty years ago, Chilean author Ariel Dorfman wrote down the seed of a story, which he then lost in his years of exile during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship