Love Embodied
SPECIAL ISSUE 2023
For Valentines Day 2023, this special issue of the Keppel Health Review explores love, relationships, and intimacy through the lens of health, illness, and bodily flux.
Image Credit: Sophie Buckely
Breaking the mould and remaking the law: an interview with asexual activist Yasmin Benoit
Yasmin shares her experiences advocating for the asexual community while navigating issues of intersectionality as a black, aro, ace woman in the modelling industry.
Tamzin Reynolds
Would you still love me if I was bald?
In forging identity and interpersonal relationships, Gwen’s heartfelt inquiry frames her connection to the unpredictability and unseen toll of chronic disease.
Gwen Chang
Will AN15368 be the final 'kiss of death' against the silent and silenced Chagas disease?
Despite burgeoning vector control challenges and the drawbacks of current treatments for Chagas disease, a novel therapeutic holds promise in combating a long neglected parasite.
Charles Mcloughlin
#ShareYourLove
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Dating with depression
24, Man, Southern England
Using dating apps as trans
32, Trans Woman, Exeter, UK
Intimacy in the menopause
56, Woman, Cornwall, UK
Living with herpes
Woman
Loving a woman who lives with chronic pain
He/Ze, 35, London, UK
My eating disorder’s relationships
24, Cis Woman, London, UK
Chronic pain & you
28, Female, London, UK
Navigating a relationship with depression
30, Cis Male, London, UK
Loving with scoliosis
24, Woman, London
Endometriosis and me
25, female, Cornwall, UK
My parent’s terminal cancer
27, male, London, UK
Stay Together For The Carbs
25, Edinburgh, UK
Love in Hong Kong
21, Hong Kong
In The Time Of After What?
56, Male, London, England
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