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This late 19th century coloured lithograph tells many stories about the relationship between the protagonists, and the time, in which attitudes toward slavery changed for many.
19TH CENTURY

The ‘master’ and the slave: an analysis

Professor Rafael Winkler unravels several philosophies of the age that lie behind an anti-slavery 19th century lithograph

  • Rafael Winkler
7 min read
Best friends Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gutwa) lost in the woods is a fitting visual metaphor for the confusion of teenage sexual discovery in Sex Education.
MORALITY
Video

Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation

  • Zinaid Meeran
5 min read