My Brio

Private Parts: The Trouble With My Vagina is a 2005 documentary which aired on Channel 5. Narrated by Jan Harvey, it presents a curiosity of the vagina from a female perspective, revealing some of the dangers of the new post-Sex In The City frankness about female sexuality - from Brazilian waxing accidents to designer vagina surgeries gone wrong. Can it still be respected when you are the owner of the vagina or will it become the quim of oppression? It's a look at how one can think of it with pride and honour.

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia.