Currently working remotely as a marketing designer for US-based company ConvertKit«, Prangley said that money talk shouldn’t be a thing that people avoid.»Money and salaries and paychecks…it’s all very taboo, isn’t it?
There’s also a frisson and postcoital tenderness. » The standing man could be looking down at his lover. » But homosexuality was very much taboo in these circles, even though the environment is built around the bonds formed between men. » In these settings, as elsewhere those bonds are vital to the power structures of the group. » But here it looks more like tenderness. »
Nubian Skin’s win follows on from Holland & Barrett taking the TfL prize crown last year. » The brief asked brands to better reflect the diversity of women in the city. » Holland & Barrett‘s winning idea tackled the «last taboo» that often gets sidelined in advertising – the menopause. »
LEFT tetraplegic after a fall in 2014, Heidi Herkes, 40, from north London, is determined to smash the taboo around disabled people and sex. »
GENESIS Breyer P-Orridge, who has died aged 70, was an artistic provocateur whose taboo-busting actions helped kick-start a form of electronic primitivism that gave rise to a latter-day Noise scene. » His entire life was an artistic experiment, whether as part of performance art troupe, COUM Transmissions, as one-quarter of industrial auteurs Throbbing Gristle, or at the head of the more psychedelically inclined Psychic TV. »
Bowery, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1994, was an icon in the 80s London club scene, renowned for his subversive, eccentric art performances, as well as his London club night Taboo, which was attended by the likes of Boy George. » He also posed for a series of nude portraits by Lucian Freud, which are considered some of Freud’s most important works. »
Between those movie bookends, the scarlet-haired Ross was a musical innovator with an often-troubled personal life, which included heroin addiction and a tumultuous relationship with taboo-breaking comedian Lenny Bruce. »
If these sound like the sort of stories you don’t often hear on mainstream TV, then that’s the point. » Channel 4’s one-off show Me and My Penis aims to break the taboo around the male sex organ and start a frank conversation about masculinity. » In among the penis chat, we hear from a man in his 40s called Jason who breaks down sobbing while confronting his infertility. » There’s a moving account from a trans man who details the fear he had of female puberty, knowing his body would soon grow breasts he didn’t want. » And one former soldier opens up about losing his legs and sustaining a severe genital injury doing bomb disposal work in Afghanistan. »
Holland & Barrett has won Transport for London’s diversity competition with an advertising campaign that aims to break the taboo around the menopause. »
It feels like the ‘last taboo’ topic that people still don’t talk about openly, but it is such a natural part of life and something all women will experience! By partnering with City Hall and TfL we will now be able to convey this message on over 31 million journeys». »
The competition is a reaction to ‘The Women We See’ research, carried out by University College London, which found that Londoners do not feel represented by the ads they see. » More than 80 campaigns were submitted to TfL and City Hall, with Holland & Barrett’s chosen for its commitment to featuring all types of women and surfacing an issue previously thought of as taboo both among advertisers and the general public. »
There are. » Figures from the charity OCD-UK suggest that three quarters of a million people are living with life-affecting OCD in the UK. » It is difficult to put a number on Pure O because it is a term used by sufferers rather than a clear clinical distinction, but it is highly likely that, given the taboo nature of many areas of sex and a highly anxious brain’s tendency to fixate on what it «shouldn’t», many others are living a version of Cartwright’s – and Marnie’s – experience. »
The dad, from North Fields, said his mental health was a taboo subject in the City and so kept silent about the extent of his suffering. »
«Statistically mental health in the City is still particularly taboo.» there is a silence around it. » «After decades of either ignoring mental illness or using it as a punchline, it feels like TV has finally worked out how to deal with subject, particularly over the last few years. » Think of Flowers on depression and bipolar disorder, Broadchurch on suicide or My Mad Fat Diary on eating disorders for good examples. »
Nothing that I could give you in a neat little sentence. » I think compassion is key, and at the moment porn addiction is still quite taboo. » Someone said they’d rather be addicted to drink – people have far more compassion and empathy . » Bu they’re real conditions, and people are suffering with them. »
To begin, let me just state that I am not against drugs – if anything, I believe they should be less taboo in order to allow the stigma behind them to slowly but surely eradicate. » As humans we are naturally curious, therefore the danger and excitement is naturally appealing and exciting to most. » Over the past few years, festivals around the UK have put up drug-testing stalls on site, allowing people to come and get their drugs tested for free, choosing to either take the drugs back or hand them over to the stall if the substance is not what they thought it was. » Personally, I believe this is a step in the right direction. » Rather than guilt and ostracise those who choose drugs as a way to expand their experiences and knowledge, we should be ensuring that they have a safe experience as much as possible. »
Ultimately, I have found that London’s drug culture has taught me so much, and not only in the academic sense, but also about human life and interaction. » I hope that more open and healthy discussions about drugs and drug culture will happen in the future, ensuring an ongoing mentality of open-mindedness and acceptance, which hopefully leak its way into other taboo topics too. »
She started speaking out about the long-taboo issue when the Grandmothers Project came to her village.»We grandmothers made a commitment to no longer excise our little girls,« she said. »We met and talked with the village chief and the parents of the children. » We discussed with them the consequences of female genital mutilation and together we agreed to denounce anyone who practices. » «More than 200 million girls and women alive today have experienced female genital mutilation, or FGM, in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, according to the World Health Organization. »
Once grandmothers are taught about the negative effects of FGM, they hold dialogues on the subject with other generations in their villages.»On an individual level, some suffered, some not so much, a few died, but it’s been taboo to discuss it, Aubel said of the women and their experiences over the years. »
Through workshops, talks and social events, Schechter said she wanted to create a space that would bring people together – young and old – to address sensitive issues like female genital mutilation, rape, domestic abuse, and sexual health.»It’s really important because it’s a hugely stigmatized part of the body and that leads to some real world consequences,« said the museum’s director Schechter, who is currently raising funds for the building.»Just anything and everything that’s taboo with that part of the body is what we’re going to be addressing. » «She said some girls and women feel awkward about getting gynaecological check-ups, such as screenings for cervical cancer, or discussing their periods. »
Menstruation is still taboo in many countries. » In Nepal, women are banished from their homes during their periods – a centuries-old practice that is now illegal – and several have died of smoke inhalation after lighting fires to keep warm.
Now, ten years since their agony began, they pair are trying to break the taboo around mental health and encourage other people to seek help. »
Boobs are out in full solidarity to destigmatise breastfeeding in public and stop people from shaming mums, who choose to prioritize their child’s well being over society enforced taboos. » #FreeTheFeed campaign has been making waves in the UK for attempting to smash the perceived age-old taboos. »
Elvie, a female focused tech company, is pioneering #FreeTheFeed campaign to smash the taboo around breastfeeding in public and their methodology is insanely genius: visualize and normalize the source of controversy itself- the boobs. » These casually hanging around, up to six meters tall, breasts have been put up on five locations across London in order to address the negative stigma against public nursing. »
On May 21, Oman’s Jokha al-Harthi could become the first Arab writer to win the the Man Booker International Prize. » In her nominated novel Celestial Bodies, Harthi chronicles the transformation of Omani society from the start of the 20th century until our present time. » The story is told from the perspective of an Omani family spanning three generations, and it delves into taboo subjects ranging from slavery to infidelity. »
Harthi: Writing about slavery in Oman demands a lot of courage, as the topic remains largely taboo. » Yet it affects lots of individuals living in our society. » The offspring of slaves are out there. »
Earlier this year, Channel 4 aired 100 Vaginas, a joyful, taboo-busting documentary in which Laura Dodsworth interviewed 100 women and photographed their vulvas. » The series highlighted how little the issues that have most impact on women’s lives, from sexual violence to childbirth, infertility and menopause, are openly discussed. » This spring, the pop-up Vagina Museum – the first of its kind in the world – opened in Camden, north London, with the hope of breaking the stigma surrounding women’s bodies and sexuality, and has since launched a crowdfunding campaign in order to secure a permanent home. »
The text of this article was generated by the Breaking The Silence system that collected 26 news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subjects related to London
