Rachael Jolley, editor of Index on Censorship magazine in a speech to the §2 – Libraries and Democracy conference in Umea, Sweden.
Rachael Jolley: Threats to reaching knowledge: why libraries play a vital role
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CATEGORY: Volume 44.04 Winter 2015 Extras
Index panel debates taboos of sex, race and hairy legs
“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”
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
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
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
Music as resistance playlist
Music has long been used as a form of resistance, from civil rights movements to the fall of the Berlin Wall
Taboos: What are yours?
Are there things that you just aren’t allowed to talk about at family gatherings over the holiday period?