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• The Daily Report

  Mexican Photographers Document Their “World In Transition”

  Next American City | Wed, Jul 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Tucson | Tags: art, mexico, calista condo, tucson museum of art | 0

  The Mexico that Americans overlook is ever so evident in Mexican photography. With the utmost artistic quality Mexican photographers have documented their country’s social, cultural and political issues. Mexican Photographers Today: Facing a World of Transition, held at the Tucson Museum of Art, examines many aspects of Mexican life seen through the lens of 27 photographers who have lived it, giving the American viewer a chance to know Mexico as something other than a tourist destination. 

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  Gender-only is not the same as gender equality

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Feb 13th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, japan, gender, buses, equality, mexico city, mexico, seoul, public transit | 1

  Monday, the Times reported that a new “women only” bus line has recently begun running in Mexico City. With enormous pink signs proclaiming “exclusivo damas!” they cater to the thousands of women who’ve been victims of sexual harassment on D.F’s overcrowded public transportation system. The buses run less frequently, but they offer a respite from the probing hands and eyes of fellow male travelers.

  As this video demonstrates, most women applaud the arrival of the buses, and see this as…

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