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a is for aspergers: a personal glossary of a spectrumy life
Artist/Author: Andrew Coltrin | Reference: P4095 | Type: Publication

A glossary of terms that come up during the desperate search for meaning that comes with an Asperger’s Syndrome diagnosis. I went through it. I know other people go through it. There are plenty of books, either more clinical, or more autobiographical out there. This one cuts straight through shackles of narrative to provide discrete chunks of information in an easy to navigate, dictionary format.

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Kiss My Genders
Editor: Hayward Gallery | Reference: P4065 | ISBN: 9781853323645 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. Hayward Gallery, 12 June – 8 September 2019

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Saboteur, Guerrilla, Pedestrian
Artist/Author: Mark Minchinton | Reference: A0873 | Type: Article

On group practice, space making in rehearsal, working with directors/actors. 

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Nonbinary: Memoirs of gender and identity
Editor: Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane | Reference: P4023 | ISBN: 978-0231185332 | Type: Publication

Thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. 

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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Limited Edition Photo Biography
Editor: Mark Paytress, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Reference: P4005 | ISBN: 9780-992657819 | Type: Publication

Genesis has selected h/er unseen and personal photographs to illustrate h/er journey of life as continuous creativity.

Limited edition; 352 / 1323. In glass cabinet.

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The Bodies That Remain
Editor: Emmy Beber | Reference: P4011 | ISBN: 978-1947447677 | Type: Publication

A collection of texts and images on the bodies of artists and writers who battled with the frustration of their own physicality and whose work reckoned with these limitations and continued beyond them.

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Things I Don’t Want to Know
Artist/Author: Deborah Levy | Reference: P3979 | ISBN: 978-0241983089 | Type: Publication

The first in Levy’s essential three-part ‘Living Autobiography’ on writing and womanhood.

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A Body in the O: Performances and Stories
Artist/Author: Tim Miller | Reference: P3982 | ISBN: 978-0299322601 | Type: Publication

An important addition to Miller’s existing body of work, picking up from his show Lay of the Land and moving into his more recent piece, Rooted.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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A Transpective: how things used to be now
Artist/Author: Chana Dubinski | Reference: P3993 | Type: Publication

Publication documenting the 18 months in which Ann Bean left London and settled in Newark-on-Trent, creating a different, unfamiliar life structure.

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Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric
Artist/Author: Madison Moore | Reference: P3756 | ISBN: 978-0-300-20470-4 | Type: Publication

An exploration of what it means to be fabulous—and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than ever.

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