Being black in Paraguay

“At least you’re a fine black woman,” some people told Mayeli Villalba when she was a child. They told her with a certain sadness that she did not identify well where it came from. She only understood a little more when, years later, she met a group...

Mexico: a cookbook in memory of the missing

Zahara Gómez dreamed of being a “male photographer”. She says it herself, in masculine, on purpose. She imagined herself recording the war, bringing true to light, and changing the world with an image. But when she began taking photos, she realized that her way was...

Peru: tiktokers, memes and tear gas

Since Congress removed President Martín Vizcarra on November 9, Peru’s social and political crisis has been in the international news. The presidents resign, the streets fill up, the youth renew demands and forms, the police repress. After decades of...

Love in the times of problematic consumption

Just before taking to the field, the Spanishs David Simon Martret and Blanca Galindo investigate, study and talk. They seek to understand substance use from all sides: they quote Epicurus, they think about pleasure, the death drive, sociology. They read about biology,...