Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state’s oldest brothels are fighting to become the nation’s first to be unionized.

A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right.

Fatima Suarez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She specializes in gender, family dynamics, and Latinas/os/es in the United States. Over the past ten years, her research has focused on examining inequality in family life, particularly from the perspective of fathers.

A series of recent social media posts from the Trump administration’s official government accounts have echoed terminology used by far-right extremists, experts said, adding that the posts offer no doubt that they are references to white supremacist rhetoric.

The moral policing of prostitution ignores the real evidence that should guide Nevada policy.

As anti-ICE demonstrations continue to grow nationwide, a UNLV sociology professor, Dr. Robert Futrell, weighs in on how protests, demonstrations, or rallies can bring change. He says that change and how long the change can be seen is all relative.