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Tamara De Anda
Tamara De Anda Prieto (born August 6, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico), also known by her pen name ''Plaqueta'', is a Mexican blogger and journalist. She received international attention after an incident of harassment involving a taxi driver, and was subsequently the target of online harassment and trolls. She previously blogged for El Universal, and published the 2018 book ''#Amigadatecuenta'', along with fellow activist . In 2017 she was named among BBC's 100 Women. Biography De Anda studied communications at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2013, De Anda posted to social media about an Aeroméxico casting call that had been sent to her. It stated that people with dark skin (''morenos'') would not be allowed to audition for roles, and that they wanted only actors of "'a white complexion' and a 'Polanco look'". Aeroméxico later apologized when Mexican news outlets wrote about her tweets. In 2017, a male taxi driver catcalled De Anda, whistling and calling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association For Women's Rights In Development
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), formerly the Association for Women in Development, is an international feminist membership and movement support organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. It was established in 1982 as a U.S.-based association focused on promoting dialogue on women in development issues among academics, policy makers and development professionals. AWID stands for a progressive intersectional feminism, and works to defend the international and regional human rights systems. The co-executive directors are Hakima Abbas and Cindy Clark. Activities AWID was founded in 1982, toward the end of the United Nations Decade for Women, as a U.S.-based association focused on promoting dialogue on women in development issues among academics, policy makers and development professionals, i.e. staff in the large development organizations. A dynamic network of women and men around the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mexican Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Mexico or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Liliana Abud (born 1948), actress, screenwriter * Griselda Álvarez (1913–2009), state governor, poet *Pita Amor, pen name of Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (1918–2000), actress, poet *María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio (1695–1756), nun, respected religious writer *Brigitte Alexander (1911–1995), German-born Mexican playwright, memoirist, actress, translator *María Luisa Algarra (1916–1957), Spanish-born Mexican playwright *Carolina Amor de Fournier (1908–1993), editor, publisher, non-fiction writer, translator *Tamara De Anda (born 1983), feminist activist and writer *Ikram Antaki (1948–2000), Syrian-born Mexican poet, essayist, translator, wrote in Spanish, French and Arabic *Elvia Ardalani (born 1963), poet, short story writer *Araceli Ardón (born 1958), journalist, novelist, short story writer * Inés Arredondo (1928–1989), Mexican write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminism In Mexico
Feminism in Mexico is the philosophy and activity aimed at creating, defining, and protecting political, economic, cultural, and social equality in women's rights and opportunity for Mexican women. Rooted in liberal thought, the term feminism came into use in the late nineteenth-century Mexico and in common parlance among elites in the early twentieth century.Cano, Gabriela. "Feminism" in ''Encyclopedia of Mexico''. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, p. 480. The history of feminism in Mexico can be divided chronologically into a number of periods, with issues. For the conquest and colonial eras, some figures have been re-evaluated in the modern era and can be considered part of the history of feminism in Mexico. At independence in the early nineteenth century, there were demands that women be defined as citizens. The late nineteenth century saw the explicit development of feminism as an ideology. Liberalism advocated secular education of both girls and boys as part of a modernizing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parts Unknown
Parts Unknown may refer to: * Parts Unknown (wrestling) * ''Parts Unknown'' (Crosbie book), a 2006 poetry book by Lynn Crosbie * ''Parts Unknown'', a 1938 novel by Frances Parkinson Keyes * "Parts Unknown", a short story by David Francis (author) * ''Parts Unknown'' (game), a board game by Cheapass Games * ''Parts Unknown'', a 2001 album by Spectre (musician) * ''Parts Unknown'', an album by The Hydromatics * ''Parts Unknown: Hostile Takeover'', a 2000 comic book, illustrated by Nat Jones * '' Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown'', an American travel and food television series See also * ''From Parts Unknown ''From Parts Unknown'' is the seventh studio album by American metalcore band Every Time I Die. Recording and composition ''From Parts Unknown'' was recorded over the course of a month with Kurt Ballou of Converge at GodCity Studio in Salem, Mass ...'' (album) 2014 album by ''Every Time I Die'' * Unknown (other) * Part (other) * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatopardo (magazine)
''Gatopardo'' ( es, Leopard) is a Mexican monthly news magazine focusing feature stories and lifestyle from a Latin-American perspective. The magazine was founded and first published in Colombia. It had from the beginning an international perspective in reporting with the backing of Publicaciones Semana S.A. of Colombia, BB&M of Panama, and ''Reader's Digest'' of Mexico, and first edited by Miguel Silva and Rafael Molano. Starting in July 2006 with issue N. 70, ''Gatopardo'' moved and remains based in Mexico City, keeping the same editorial style and Latin-American perspective, but providing a greater coverage on Mexican topics. Beginnings Founded in April 1999 in Bogotá, Colombia, by journalists Miguel Silva and Rafael Molano, Gatopardo was born as a novel proposal to create, for the first time in Latin America, a high-impact magazine with reports and journalistic chronicles that would explain the paradoxes and contradictions of the region, such as inequality, corruption and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Once
Once (Eleven; formerly Once TV México and Canal Once) is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned by National Polytechnic Institute. The network's flagship station is XEIPN-TDT channel 11 in Mexico City. It broadcasts across Mexico through nearly 40 TV transmitters and is required carriage on all Mexican cable and satellite providers. The network also operates an international feed which is available in the United States and Venezuela via satellite from DirecTV and CANTV, via online from VEMOX, VIVOplay and also on various cable outlets, on "Latino" or "Spanish" tiers. Most of its programs are also webcast through the Internet, though its programming is not the same as the actual broadcasters or satellite signal. History The network began broadcasting on March 2, 1959, when its flagship station became the first non-profit educational and cultural television station in Mexico, owned and operated by a Mexican institution of higher education. The television chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I (newspaper)
The ''i'' is a British national morning paper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust and distributed across the United Kingdom. It is aimed at "readers and lapsed readers" of all ages and commuters with limited time, and was originally launched in 2010 as a sister paper to ''The Independent''. It was later acquired by Johnston Press in 2016 after ''The Independent'' shifted to a digital-only model. The ''i'' came under the control of JPIMedia a day after Johnston Press filed for administration on 16 November 2018. The paper and its website were bought by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) on 29 November 2019, for £49.6 million. On 6 December 2019 the Competition and Markets Authority served an initial enforcement order on DMGT and DMG Media Limited requiring the paper to be run separately pending investigation. The ''i'' was named British National Newspaper of the Year in 2015. Since its inception, the ''i'' has expanded its layout and coverage, adding spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook Live
Facebook is a social-network service website launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. The following is a list of software and technology features that can be found on the Facebook website and mobile app and are available to users of the social media site. Facebook structure News Feed The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank), Facebook selects a handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive. On September 6, 2006, Ruchi Sanghvi announced a new home page feature called News Feed. Originally, when users logged into Facebook, they were presented with a customizable version of their own profile. The new layout, by contrast, created an alternative home page in which users saw a constantly updated list of their friends' Facebook activity. News Feed highlights inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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