taboos

Gawain Antell knew something was seriously wrong when students started vomiting.In spring 2019, the paleobiologist — then earning a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford — was working as a teaching assistant on a geological mapping field trip in Scotland when, after returning to the hotel, a handful of undergraduate women grew grievously ill. Antell soon learned that the students hadn’t been drinking enough water, a situation made worse by the unusually warm weather.Antell was particularly alarmed to discover that the…

Image via Netflix Netflix has a calculated plan for building and sustaining as many in-house franchises as possible, and while the results have been about as hit-or-miss as you’d expect, it isn’t hard to think the company doesn’t account for sleeper successes like Lust Stories. After all, a Hindi anthology comprised of four short films that dive into the complexities of modern love told from the perspective of Indian women – covering everything from crumbling marriages to performance issues in the bedroom –…

Women’s health care is still nowhere near equity: Biases, taboos, and sexism remain pervasive in medicine, with ripple effects across all aspects of a woman’s life. But there was a pervading note of optimism at WIRED Health last week during a panel about the future of women’s health care. Taboos are being shattered—particularly around topics like menstruation, menopause, and women’s bodies. “There’s a sea change right now,” says Jennifer Garrison, cofounder and director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity…

via Viva Films It goes without saying that anything vaguely erotic is going to find itself becoming suspiciously popular on streaming, and while it does deal with taboos and stigma in an industry predicated on titillation, viewers who’ve opted to take the plunge on Expensive Candy might just find themselves being blindsided by a genuinely moving romance. Written and directed by Jason Paul Laxamana, the story revolves around a forbidden love that becomes so strong at least one side of the potential partnership…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMaking films is like having sex,” Neil Jordan tells me. “You don’t know how other people do it. And you never know if you’re doing it right.” It’s a fitting sentiment, given his films are not like anyone else’s. And they’re also... well, steamy: the sexually charged blood-thirst of Interview with the Vampire; the gothic eroticism of The Company of Wolves; the provocations of The Crying…

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Jim Howick is sitting on a bench in Primrose Hill in London, drinking tea from a cardboard cup and minding his own business, when a dad on a bicycle zooms by on the asphalt path. Brakes squeal and the dad shouts breathless thank-yous at the bemused actor, before cycling on. This sort of thing has been happening to Howick quite a bit, he says, ever since Covid closed the schools. When parents were struggling to find ways to entertain their kids at home, the BBC’s Horrible Histories was much in rotation on iPlayer.…