Project Type: Socio-Cultural
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The Loneliest Generation: How New Initiatives Emerged to Help Young Adults Navigate Loneliness During The Pandemic
March 24, 2022 Jesse García, a 21-year-old Filipino American, struggled to adapt to college. García, who had come from a special education school, thought he lacked the educational resources of his Manhattan College classmates, where he began a major in psychology in August 2019. He suffered from impostor syndrome and grew increasingly lonely. His mental […]
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Texas, Florida and the historical conservative fight on the gender binary
March 12, 2022 Last fall, President Joe Biden’s Administration announced a proposed rule to streOn March 8, the culture clash that plagues current American politics reached the azure-carpet floor of the Florida Senate. On a warm cloudy morning in Tallahassee, with temperatures in the low 80s, the Republican-controlled upper chamber fueled the fear of the […]
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Heels in the closet: the challenges of aging as a drag queen
January 14, 2022 On Oct. 30 around 6 p.m., John Sefakis started his weekly transformation into Stella D’Oro, his drag persona. Facing three lighted mirrors and in front of a bouquet of bright, plastic flowers, the 72-year-old Greek-American laid down his thin, dark eyebrows with a glue stick, making sure all the hairs laid flat. […]
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La opresión del ideal de belleza, de Venus a las Kardashian
May 14, 2020 Desde las esculturas de mármol clásicas hasta la delgadez de las pasarelas de los años noventa, los ideales de belleza han cambiado constantemente a lo largo de la historia. En la actualidad, la diversidad es canon, pero la belleza sigue asentada en unos estándares opresivos para muchas personas. Además, las dietas, el […]
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La era del hombre fuerte en la política
January 15, 2019 Donald Trump o Matteo Salvini constituyen dos ejemplos de una tendencia política creciente en Occidente, pero imprescindible para comprender la Historia de otras regiones del mundo: los llamados hombres fuertes. Estas figuras, que gobiernan ejerciendo un nacionalpopulismo exacerbado y excluyente, amenazan con arraigar el autoritarismo en las democracias, a pesar de que una […]
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