The new economics of sex work Economists have largely ignored sex work despite it being a large industry worth almost $100bn annually, with new research methods emerging to study this complex market.

The new economics of sex work
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from The Economist

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

What is really at stake is the enforcement of "sex-based distinctions" that have long been understood hierarchically (men on top) to deny women (and sexual minorities) equality of treatment and access to resources and power.
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Mexico is setting up free vaccination stations against measles, and I am encouraging all my friends and relatives under 49 to get one. In the US, I know it's more complicated, but I got an MMR shot in the fall because my doctor tested me and I had no antibodies. I'm 36!

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/a...

📣 Applications are now open for postgraduate study at the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Cambridge 2026–27

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Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:

“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”

Olivia Dean accepts her Grammy award for best new artist. Quote from Olivia Dean: "I'm up here as a granddaughter of an immigrant. I wouldn't be here ... I am a product of bravery and I think that those people deserve to be celebrated."

"I never really imagined that I would be up here," Dean said, receiving her first Grammy.

“I'm up here as a granddaughter of an immigrant. I wouldn't be here ... I am a product of bravery and I think that those people deserve to be celebrated.” bit.ly/4ruKqg8

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.

This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Enhorabuena al CIDE.
Saludos cordiales.

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Qué perra mi amiga

❤️❤️❤️

Breaking Open “Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.” ― John Berger

“It shows us there is another way. And this is why artists are so often the first people to be targeted by authoritarian figures, those intent on keeping a tight lid on ideas, on different opinions, on language. Artistic expression is the practice of freedom.”
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Extremadamente agradecida por esta reseña publicada en Nierika escrita por Ángel Miquel sobre mi libro de Inés Amor.
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Renee Nicole Good leveraged her white privilege in defense of the most vulnerable in her community. She was cowardly murdered by a masked man who did not identify himself.
Her resistance was peaceful. The message is unmistakable: this was meant as a warning to all, including white women.

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

A los fascistas les abren la puerta los tibios que no se dan cuenta que están deteniéndoles la puerta para pasar.

El ataque de Trump a Venezuela es ilegal e imprudente

El ataque de Trump a Venezuela es ilegal e imprudente www.nytimes.com/es/2026/01/0...

Me niego a empezar el año teniendo que explicar porqué una intervención gringa no es buena idea. Virgencita plis.

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Immigrant Derangement Syndrome Blaming brown-skinned people for everything bad

To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Americans will soon understand that hate is too great a burden to bear.

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Opinion | I’ve Been the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for a Decade. This Is the Crisis I See.

Today, some 117 million people have been forced to flee their homes (…) The tools to help them survive, rebuild and eventually return home already exist. But they require time, cooperation, trust and a desire to invest in peace rather than war.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

Christopher Anderson and Szilveszter Makó are lecturing through their praxis.
How we portray power is a political decision.
It always has been.
Art is political.

Cases such as this one, which echo that of Gisèlle Pellicot, are symptomatic of a widespread problem in Europe that is not discussed enough: rape culture is normalised.

Opinion | Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones (Published 2024)

I felt the urge to listen to this again:
Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/o...

Why autism should not be treated as a single condition A better understanding of its biology will lead to better interventions

Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor, claimed (wrongly) in 1998 that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine was a cause of autism. This led to years of wasted research trying to find a link that did not exist.

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The Autism Diagnosis Problem

The Autism Diagnosis Problem www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/p...

Las madres buscadoras del México que desaparece Bajo una crisis de violencia y desamparo institucional, cientos de madres salen a buscar a sus hijos en los lugares más inesperados de México. EL PAÍS acompaña a tres mujeres y sus colectivos en Coahu...

Las madres buscadoras solas ante la violencia y la impunidad en México
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Les recomiendo tener a un @mgf91.bsky.social en sus vidas a quien hacerle preguntas random de economía el sábado en la noche y TE RESPONDE con paciencia.