The Other Side of the Ciudad Juárez Femicide Story
For the last dozen years, fronteriz@s (border people) in the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso metropolitan area have heard shocking reports about women-killing, known as femicide (or in…
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Theme: Gender and Sexuality
Editor’s Letter: A Daily Threat
Suddenly, I was seeing violence everywhere. Just after I started thinking about this issue of ReVista, I went to a sweet documentary film about Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, who captured the…
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Monkeys and Men
What does who opens the door on a date on a frigid Cambridge evening have to do with a lush island off the shores of Puerto Rico? For that matter, what does this island, teaming with…
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Photoessay: Gender and Disaster
On October 5, 2005 Hurricane Stan ripped into Guatemala, causing several tons of mud to slide off the mountainsides burying an estimated 700 people. What was once an up and coming…
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Equality for Same-Sex Couples
Brazilian same-sex couples have achieved a considerable degree of legal protection in the last twenty years, a consequence of several judicial decisions extending to same-sex couples the…
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