Disfigured Faces, “Accursed Ugliness”, and Hollywood
Paddy Adamson on Hollywood's obsession with disfigured faces, and the negative impact such representations have on understandings of disfigurement.
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Transplantation narratives on screen: a Halloween blog series
This October, we're countering the casual exploitation of horror narratives around appearance and the limits of the body, reflecting on transplantation narratives on film with a guest blog series.
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Artificial Intelligence and Facial Discrimination
CEO of Face Equality International, Phyllida Swift, explains the relationship between artificial intelligence and facial discrimination
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Before and After? What the humanities bring to medical images
While before-and-after photographs serve an important medical function in recording a physical journey, our research goes behind these images to understand patients’ journeys, including the emotional and physical journey they go through.
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A Hidden Community: The Movement for Face Equality
A Hidden Community: The Movement for Face Equality Facial disfigurement is a globally neglected human rights issue By Phyllida Swift...
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History has Many Faces: researching histories of facial surgery
History has Many Faces This is a post about the conditions in which I am able to research facial difference...
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From unideal circumstances to the “ideal” facial transplantation candidate
From unideal circumstances to the “ideal” facial transplantation candidate: Lessons from visible difference research on the importance of patient-focused psychological...
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Perceptions of the Face: Our Online Experience
I recently watched the ‘What’s in a Face?’ panel conversation, which was held as part of the Being Human Festival...
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Owning My Face
Reading about the current Changing Faces You are not Alone campaign, which tackles the subject of men with visible differences...
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The campaign for ‘face equality’, 2008-2020: origins and highlights
Our final blog for Face Equality Week 2020 is a history of the campaign for face equality. It is written...