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Three Stories of Autoimmunity

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Another Reason Not to Smoke

Working in response to the work of Dr Megan Macleod and her team at the School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow, I made React! React! React! or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke, a risograph publication that imagines the immune system as a bunch of naughty schoolboys, last spotted belting seven shades of shit out of each other in Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet (1932).

Still wearing some cracking capes but also sporting the pixelated hoodies of Loewe’s SS23 collection and some over the top puffer jackets, these wee lads become self proteins, quite unfairly attacked in autoimmune diseases by some bully T-cells. It’s a theatre of the flesh!

Derek McCormack was a huge influence on this thing and everyone at Good Press helped me get my head round riso printing. Made for Pint of Science 2025 (thank you Emily).

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Find out about Dr Megan Macleod’s research here