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According to the “Chhaupadi” custom in Nepal, girls and women who are menstruating are considered impure and must be isolated. Maria Contreras Coll spent a year in Nepal and documented this tradition for her photo project “Journey to Impurity”.
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Psychoanalyst Caroline Eliacheff talks about our enduring taboos and those which disappear over time.
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How did it happen that US Republicans put up with Donald Trump's taboo violations?
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Everyone thinks they are enlightened. Yet death and sex are still as hidden as they were in Victorian England.
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Classical music was long the domain of white men. If opera singer Golda Schultz has her way, that's about to change. A conversation about prejudice on and off the stage.
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Why do so many Poles support the Belarusians' struggle for democracy? The answer to this question is connected to the common history of the two peoples in the R...
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The Silk Road Symphony Orchestra takes suggestions from the audience to shape its program. A conversation with conductor Jan Moritz Onken.
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A tribal chief in Ghana has to know what he may and may not do.
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On finally telling my father the truth about my homosexuality.
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The former risk officer Eric Ben-Artzi helped uncover false accounting at Deutsche Bank. A conversation about the difficulties of exposing his employer.
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Why do many people fear bodies that are different from their own?
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A conversation behind closed doors about the many sexual taboos in Iran.
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