So, uh, I have some news.

When culture is enjoyed without acknowledging those struggles, it risks reproducing a colonial logic of consumption.

Yes, we dance and enjoy ourselves. But we also rage, resist, and fight.

It is also worth remembering that Latin America is not white. Reggaeton is Black, born in working-class neighborhoods, and much of what is celebrated today as culture arises from histories of Black resistance and from songs created by enslaved people.

Taking a stand is part of that relationship, including opposing U.S. intervention in the region, the revival of the Monroe Doctrine, and the killing of fishermen in the Caribbean framed as a 'war on drugs'.

Enjoying the “culture” and the music is not a neutral act. It also means asking questions about human rights and about the conditions migrant people live under in your own countries.

I saw many friends from other countries genuinely excited about Bad Bunny’s show, and I enjoyed it too. However, it feels important to remember that Latin American joy cannot be separated from Latin American struggles.

Monitoreo Ciudadano - La Salud Reproductiva es Vital En esta sección se presentan los resultados de un inédito monitoreo sobre acceso a la salud reproductiva único a nivel global, realizado en nueve países de América Latina: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, ...

SAAF grantee partner CLACAI shares a "a groundbreaking, globally unique monitoring project on access to reproductive health, conducted in 9 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay." 👇

saludreproductivavital.info/monitoreo/ #ReproSky

Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.

This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

We’re happy to share our new article, just in time for some summer reading: “Towards a common EU-abortion policy? The European Parliament’s resolutions on abortion as a human rights issue” by Lourdes Peroni and Marta Bucholc.

Nobody is above the law. Finally some justice.

The Latin American Green Wave in Warsaw 🌱

Para cuándo en Polonia

Qué ilusión esta entrevista. Encuentro de gigantes 🌼

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

At the start of the year, WIRED made a commitment to stop paywalling articles primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act @freedom.press. This includes this critical piece here.

The US Is storing migrant children’s DNA in a criminal database:

Centroamérica: el presente y sus pasados Podcast · Víctor Hugo Acuña y Héctor Lindo · Podcast de historia centroamericana dirigido por Víctor Hugo Acuña y Héctor Lindo, y producido por la Universidad de Costa Rica desde la Vicerrectoría de A...

Recomendado para entender mejor la historia Centroamericana.

open.spotify.com/show/4yVZly8...

The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water res...

I'm thrilled that @restofworld.org has excerpted one of my favorite passages from EMPIRE OF AI. It's not about Sam Altman or OpenAI directly. It's about what their vision of scale is costing us—and how we could dare to dream for a different conception of progress. 1/

restofworld.org/2025/ai-reso...

Maravilloso espacio, ojalá podamos coincidir más adelante 👐

AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.

Sharing your problems and secrets with therapy chatbots seems increasingly risky, @thedextriarchy.bsky.social‬ warns, “for reasons that have little to do with what a chatbot is telling you, and everything to do with who else is peeking in.” www.theverge.com/policy/66568...

‘Everything I can do at home, I will do it at home’: the materialities, temporalities, and spatialities of telemedicine abortion care The advent of telemedicine abortion in 2020 in the United States meant that abortion care was increasingly pushed out of clinical settings and into the home. Yet, within the context of abortion ine...

Timely to hear that my paper was published in an issue of SCG while at a Self-Managed Abortion workshop held by @whiterxbbit.bsky.social ☺️

🏠 Although about #telemedicineabortion, it discusses how women manage the timing & space of their abortions at home.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A green promotional graphic for the June 6 online book talk, “Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power,” moderated by Tamara Kneese, featuring authors Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, and Karen Hao.

June 6 @ 1 pm ET! Join authors @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social as they discuss their must-read new books exposing AI hype and tech industry power with D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/chall...

See you here!

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Las terapias de conversión son tortura. La UE no puede seguir mirando hacia otro lado. Pedimos a la Comisión Europea una prohibición legal y vinculante que proteja a las personas LGTBQ+ de estas prácticas inhumanas

En el minis de @ctxt.es firmamos para abolirlas

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Book cover with sculpture made out of yellow lego

She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Aprendiendo de la experiencia mozambicana 📑🩶

🇵🇸 Hablo con Liliana Córdova Kaczerginski sobre su experiencia siendo educada en el sionismo, su estancia en Israel, cómo rechazó su propaganda para solidarizarse con el pueblo palestino, y el estado actual del movimiento por su liberación.

#NoObstante en @furortv.bsky.social

🔗 youtu.be/Z6bTlPJ2nec

Botanical garden.

Retracing Kapuscinski's steps to finish the pending texts 😶‍🌫️

Abortion Dream Team review – dynamic study of activists resisting Poland’s near-total ban Karolina Domagalska’s film follows the tireless work of an activist group founded to battle the country’s legislation against reproductive rights

Ooh there's a film about @aborcyjnydream.bsky.social 😍

"Under Poland’s near-total abortion ban, a group of courageous activists step up for women’s autonomy.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...