What's got my attention this week #8

Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend

94-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is about to open her biggest ever show in Manchester

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• What Maya Angelou taught Oprah about self-acceptance.
• Pushing through the stress is not a badge of honour. Absolutely love this piece about Lewis Capaldi by Emma Gannon on her Hyphen substack.
• Three generations of Iranian female photography.
• If you’ve been worrying about yesterday’s coverage of a report linking HRT to dementia, this might reassure you. £ (I’m afraid I couldn’t find an explainer that wasn’t behind a paywall. If you don’t have a Times subscription, basically that study was based on an old-style of combined pills that are very rarely prescribed any more.)
• Why do we find it so hard to do nothing?
• How plastics are poisoning us. And the toxic chemicals that are lurking in our clothes. Sorry, not perky, I know.
• Coming out i…