Around the world
Since its launching, in 2006, the Sexuality Policy Watch website has circulated relevant information on sexual politics trends, events and actors around the world. This investment has resulted in a rich archive of global and national sexual politics.
One main feature of this database is that it is not confined to specific areas or issues. It encompasses information on abortion, sexual and reproductive rights, sex work, sexual violence, gender and women’s rights, HIV and AIDs; and emphasizes materials and analysis that contribute to locate these issues in relation to the political economy of sexuality. Since 2013, key facts, events and trends are selected and highlighted in monthly announcements.
Gender in the New Vatican Directory for Catechesis
A widespread orientation of what is presented today under the name of gender, calls into question the revealed fact: «man and woman He created them». According to such a position, gender identity would no longer be an original given that the person must accept and fill with meaning, but rather a social construction that is […]
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Biopolitics & The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Feminist Perspective
As part of DAWN’s webinar series DAWN Talks on COVID-19, Sonia Corrêa shares a piece she wrote especially for DAWN on COVID-19 biopolitics from a feminist perspective. Download the article Watch the webinar recording
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Profane Fortune
Ventura Profana (which can be translated as Profane Fortune) is a singer, writer, composer, performer, and visual artist from Bahia, in the Northeast Region in Brazil. She is also an Evangelic pastor and gospel singer. Her art interrogates the implications and effects of the Deuteronomium in Brazil and abroad, as it is diffused by Neo-Pentecostal […]
Read moreSPW Archive: Sexual Politics in Pandemic Times
Since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020, SPW has been reporting on the events, trends and dynamics triggred by Sars-Cov-2. In order to summarize what we are since then collecting and producing and facilitate our readers’ search, we offer our special reports as well as articles especially written by SPW partners and compilations […]
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COVID -19 and Politics in March-April 2020
Since January, when the Chinese government adopted extreme confinement measures in Wuhan, the pandemic sparked the worldwide spread of a questionable war semantics. It also provided states, in particular existing authoritarian regimes, new justifications for exercising their monopoly on violence, declaring arbitrary measures, and conducting new forms of political coercion. In the Philippines, Duterte authorized […]
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Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: May and June 2020
The global scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed since April, but the crisis is still far from over. Only eight countries are listed as having beaten the virus: Iceland, Jordan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Uruguay, and Vietnam. Transmission curves appear to be decreasing in the more drastically affected countries of Europe. Meanwhile, the […]
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COVID-19, Warehouses and Platform Workers
Logistics Firms Have Used the Pandemic to Boost Profits and Make Workers More Precarious – Jacobin The real cost of Amazon – Vox Explosive resignation at Amazon highlights the very worst of modern-day capitalism – The Canary Coronavirus pandemic leaves gig economy workers exposed – Politico Covid-19: who will protect gig workers, if not platforms? […]
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COVID-19 and economic inequality
Six ways capitalism spreads the crisis – Corporate Watch Precarity in Times of Pandemic:Covid-19 and the crisis in India’s informal labor markets – Bot Populi India’s coronavirus pandemic shines a light on the curse of caste – The Conversation Pandemic Meets Precarity: The Case of Platform Delivery Work in Latin America – Bot Populi When […]
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COVID-19 and indigenous people
World Indigenous groups in Canada, Australia, Brazil brace for coronavirus – Washington Post US Why has Navajo Nation been hit so hard by the coronavirus? – Al Jazeera Indian Country, where residents suffer disproportionately from disease, is bracing for coronavirus – Washington Post Latin America Ecuador Ecuador: Indigenous community use tradition to keep COVID-19 out […]
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COVID-19 reignites universal basic income debates
The need for universal basic income – UNDP Sailing through a perfect storm of COVID-19 with universal basic income for Indonesia – The Conversation Could Covid-19 be the push that Europe needs for unconditional basic income? – The Conversation Universal basic income is the answer to the inequalities exposed by COVID-19 – World Economic Forum […]
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Optimistic outlooks in regards to COVID-19 pandemic
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Will coronavirus change our attitudes to death? Quite the opposite’ – The Guardian Yuval Noah Harari on COVID-19: ‘The biggest danger is not the virus itself’ – The Guardian How overly optimistic modeling distorted Trump team’s coronavirus response – Politico Coronavirus: five reasons to feel optimistic – The Conversation Rand Paul urges […]
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COVID-19 and differential mortality: race, ethnicity and caste
What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths? – New York Times India’s coronavirus pandemic shines a light on the curse of caste – The Conversation India and the US Can No Longer Afford to Look Away From Systemic Injustice – The Wire US: To understand who’s dying of Covid-19, look to social factors […]
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COVID-19 and Politics: De-democratization and Authoritarianism
EUROPE Crisis and Resistance at the Periphery: Bosnian responses to COVID -19 – Critical Legal Thinking Coronavirus: Hungary bid to end emergency powers ‘an optical illusion’, say human rights NGOs – Euronews Orban´s Power Strategy: “Surrender to win” – Balkan Insight Coronavirus: Hungary votes to end Viktor Orban emergency powers – BBC Hungary’s “de facto […]
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COVID 19: Sex Workers cannot access emergency packages
Sex workers must not be left behind in the response to COVID-19 – Unaids ‘Sex workers say they’re at risk, have been left out of Canada’s COVID-19 response – The Global and Mail Japan is offering sex workers financial aid. But they say it’s not enough to survive the coronavirus pandemic – CNN Coronavirus: why […]
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Sexual politics in times of pandemic: contribution of guest authors
The SPW Announcement for May and early June 2020 will have the same format adopted in March-April 2020, it will organize the newly compiled information and analyses within a frame that charters Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic. Yet, the scale, intensity and complexity of the political, biopolitical and economic dynamics and related crises arising […]
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