This sensitivity to the importance of individual experiences is perhaps more important than ever, as we navigate a world that seems newly full of generalizations, harmful stereotypes, and overt racism and xenophobia.

Un niño con una correa explora el escenario de la protesta anti-trans, con un fondo que denuncia la ideología de género como abuso de menores.

Desde principios del siglo XXI, América Latina ha presenciado el surgimiento de un nuevo concepto, la “ideología de género.” Aunque toda cultura se rige por una ideología de género, la ideología de género es más una herramienta política que una …

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A child on a leash explores the scene of an anti-trans protest against the backdrop of a banner decrying the “gender ideology” as child abuse.

Since the early 2000s, Latin America has witnessed the rise of a new concept, the ideología de género (gender ideology.) Though every culture and society is inevitably defined by a gender ideology—that is, what differentiates each gender from the others—the …

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Dancers spend many hours a day, many days in a row dancing in the elaborate costumes and masks. Ezekiel Canti, dressed as the young jaguar, takes a rest before joining the dance again.

On Wednesday, January 6th, 2016, in the community of Santa Cruz in the Toledo District, Belize, community members, school children, visitors and passers-by had the chance to witness the beginning of the Deer Dance. Beginning a traditional Maya celebration continuing …

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The Mediterranean cruise ship’s mobile border technologies assist in expanding a securitized space at the interface between Europe and its others.

Mobile Borders, Istanbul Modern, Transnational Surreal Surreality overtook me when I found myself unexpectedly confronting a gargantuan cruise ship moored alongside the Istanbul Modern art museum in June 2013. The enormous vessel imposed a kind of movable landscape, as if …

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The American flag has been a powerful symbol throughout years of demonstrations- timely here to consider our role in global climate change. Photo by Victoria Costa

Smell is a powerful connecting force. Walking through the 300,000+ crowd at the People’s Climate March in New York City this past Sunday, September 21st, I was comforted to smell the familiar scent of burning tree sap. The familiarity was …

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Fuchsia house brings a Mexican aesthetic to the historic barrios of "old" South Phoenix. Migrants subtly remade the city in their own image.

Gentrification-By-Subdivision in Transnationalized South Phoenix Since 2001 South Phoenix has been on a rollercoaster ride from disinvestment to reinvestment and back. Substandard housing stock in this historically redlined Latino and African American barrio/ghetto thwarts the house-lust of the prototypical gentrifier …

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Small boats can be a vital means of access to many of life's necessities. While fishing is no longer a great source of nutrition or income on the lake's edge, we did find that the small fish remaining, although not culturally valued, did provide a good source of protein to many families.

Guatemala is a country of incredible beauty and intensely troubled history. At Lago Atitlan, famously proclaimed by Aldous Huxley to be “the most beautiful place of earth,” the watery edge of the volcanic crater is a place that exemplifies this …

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Balancing the dilemma of ordering is overwhelming so you ask your research participant if she would choose a meal for you. This relieves you of the responsibility and may give you a unique window into how your participant perceives you …

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By ordering the soup, you show that you appreciate Mexican foods and, also, that you understand that these foods can be nutritious and delicious. Chicken soup is not considered a “special” food so you show that you enjoy simple foods. …

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