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Archive for October 2024

The U.S. Latino HIV Crisis — Ending an Era of Invisibility

In May 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its annual HIV surveillance reports. The new data show a continuation of year-over-year reductions through 2022 in the estimated number of new HIV infections in the United States.1 But disconcerting trends among Latino people — the country’s second-largest racial or ethnic group after White, non-Latino people — reflect persistent failures in HIV-prevention and treatment systems that have been overshadowed by this overall progress.

Demolition of Social Work building begins despite opposition from preservation group

The Daily Texan | A Sullivan
The Daily Texan | A Sullivan

“We were stunned (by the decision),” said Armenta, a retired emeritus social work professor. “We had been in communication with the communications director of the Texas Historical Commission since July. As time went by, we decided to go ahead and file the open records (request) because we were just anxious to figure out what the next steps might be. (Then) boom … we found out.”

The Cosmopolitans: Cocktail Culture, Gender, and Social Status in Interwar Singapore

Abstract

This article explores the emergence of cocktail culture in interwar Singapore. Mixed alcoholic drinks were consumed by British men in Singapore from at least the 1910s, including the famous “Singapore Sling.” However, it was not until the 1920s that cocktails became the drink of choice for elite men and women from Singapore’s Chinese, British, and Eurasian communities. The consumption of American popular culture and exchange with American colonists in the Philippines helped the cocktail to become a symbol of tropical modernity. At the same time, the possibilities of home entertaining were transformed by the increasing availability of American-made domestic refrigerators in Singapore from the mid-1920s. Multiethnic elites, accustomed to frequenting bars and cafés to enjoy cocktails, began to host their own cocktail parties with the help of their Chinese servants. The interwar cocktail party offered the wealthy a means to display conspicuous consumption and cosmopolitan modernity. They did so in a way that unsettled but did not overturn colonial hierarchies based on gender, race, and class.

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Legislators Are Shifting Tactics To Censor Higher Ed, Claims Report

Forbes | Getty
Forbes | Getty

Legislative attempts to limit academic freedom and censure campus speech are continuing, but they are becoming more subtle and disguised, according to a new report from PEN America…. Along with the report, PEN America also released an up-to-date Index of Educational Gag Orders, featuring all the restrictions introduced and passed in state legislatures over the past four years.