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The backlash against sexual harassment and assault of women in Mexico was slow to get started, but thanks to a Twitter campaign, women in all professions are now beginning to speak out.
Netflix has chosen a high-quality Mexican arthouse movie as a flagship production for its new distribution model.
Mexican directors have won in their category four years out of the past five.
Can the U.S. recover its once positive image among Mexicans? Trade, immigration and cultural ties stand to suffer.
US elections surfaced fears of Mexicans crossing into the US. But their numbers are actually in decline. Why are they choosing to stay in Mexico? Two migration experts went there to find out.
Many Australian artists eke out a living, yet government funding is generally heading backwards. Can we learn from Mexico, where artists are allowed to pay tax in paintings or sculptures in lieu of cash?
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo kept monkeys as pets and painted them often. They symbolised the children she couldn’t have and were worshipped as gods of fertility in Aztec times.
For more than 500 years, she has wandered, weeping and searching without rest. A ghostly woman in white who is said to have murdered her children, she is doomed to roam the earth, searching for their lost…
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex
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Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies and Associate Professor, Department of English and Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
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Joe and Teresa Endowed Chair in Social Sciences, Tarleton State University, Tarleton State University
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Professor of Anthropology, Director, Transnational Research Lab, The Ohio State University
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Emeritus Professor of History, La Trobe University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide
