Human rights and justice
![A bathroom scene featuring a metal toilet roll dispenser with a partially unrolled toilet paper, mounted on a tiled wall.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/c8671832-e03f-4bd8-bdf1-852ae5655c20/rt-nn11514297.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Human rights and justice
idea
Public toilets are vanishing and that’s a civic catastrophe
New research shows it is a nightmare for all of us, but especially for people with health issues and marginalised groups
by Guido Corradi
![View from behind a wheelchair showing the back of red trainers, with people walking in the background on a pavement.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/83409c56-1025-4493-a8e8-6c132dafd156/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Disability
idea
Prejudice is more of a problem for some disabilities than others
It’s welcome that there’s more awareness of ableism, but further progress means digging into the varied ways it plays out
by Matt Huston
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Anger
guide
How to be angry
Anger is a fuel that’s dangerous when out of control. But managed well, it can energise you to identify and confront problems
by Ryan Martin
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Artists and art history
film
Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?
Directed by Taylor Rees
![A woman in a black veil stands on a street in front of a building with a colourful sign and closed shops.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/43e03ae6-8389-4515-952f-8506164c29f3/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Human rights and justice
idea
The day the Taliban banned women like me from working
With my daughters’ education cancelled, I thought the regime had done its worst. Then a new message came from my office
by Nargis
![A historical illustration of a man kneeling, holding a flag, surrounded by companions near a shore with ships in the background and dense jungle around.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/2be46c1a-080b-4566-a01f-d842a4894d12/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Human rights and justice
idea
Hidden in translation – Jewish resistance to Spanish empire
Translation as a powerful form of resistance: how a 16th-century Sephardic Jew conquered the colonial narrative from Spain
by Flora Cassen
![Busy city street at dusk with people walking, illuminated by bright lights from buildings and vehicles, including a lit-up truck and taxis in the background.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/f67d91fb-1af8-4b5a-9561-dc860c2fcc0a/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Disability
idea
A few simple steps could empower the world’s largest minority
What makes people like me disabled is not our bodies but the societies we live in. Let me inspire a rethink in your attitudes
by Paras Shah
![Black-and-white photo of a group of people holding a banner that reads “DON’T CRY: RESIST!” on a rainy city street.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/c1186cdc-8610-4b10-8a30-f4b972a944ef/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Civic life
idea
The origin story of a slogan, ‘the personal is political’
What the radical-feminist origins of the slogan ‘the personal is political’ can tell us about language in our own divided age
by Guy Stevenson