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.
Brazil’s “Infamous Sunday” – Compilation of analysis about the January 8th attacks in Brasilia
As Brazil was stunned by January 8th storming rioters against the buildings of Federal Administration, Congress and Supreme Court, we collected analysis to better understand the roots, circumstances and outcomes of the “infamous Sunday”.
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Global Public Health Journal – Human Rights ‘Missing the point’: A conversation with Sonia Corrêa about the emergence and complexities of anti-gender politics at the intersections of human rights and health
Reproductive and sexual health policies have long mobilised religious and political forces. In this interview conducted in September of 2021, Brazilian feminist activist and researcher Sonia Corrêa guides us through a genealogy of anti-gender politics showing how they have been grounded in carefully crafted discourses about rights and gender that hinge on interpretations of the […]
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The rise of Georgia Meloni: An interview with Massimo Prearo
SPW: There has been a lot of talk abroad about Giorgia Meloni, the far-right politician who made a meteoric rise in the polls, becoming Italy’s first female prime minister. We want to hear you about her trajectory. But, first of all, could you explain the context of permanent political instability in Italy, and the failure […]
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Sexual Politics from August to November 2022
>> Download as PDF << Preface Due to its relevance in Brazil and the rest of the world, we rescheduled the publication of our newsletter to be able to include the results of the Brazilian elections that, thanks to the votes of the poorest people, women, the black population, and indigenous peoples, mean the end […]
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Anti-gender Politics in Latin America in Pandemic Times – by Tomás Ojeda
by Tomás Ojeda Thank you, Sonia, and hello everyone. Thanks for being here with us at the launch of the English version of these case study reports. I’m happy to be here, in the company of people whose work I have the deepest respect for and have been following for a long time. My research […]
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NEW E-BOOK: Anti-Gender Politics in Latin America in the Pandemic Context
SPW has launched the English version of our latest research. The e-book “Anti-Gender Politics in Latin America in the Pandemic Context” presents the results of the second research phase of the Gender and Politics in Latin America (GPAL) project, including seven national case studies (🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇪🇨🇺🇾) and an analysis of the anti-gender dynamics at the 2021 […]
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Anti-gender politics in Latin America during the pandemic: A review – Launching debate
SPW has launched the e-book “Antigender Policies in Latin America in the Pandemic Context”. The e-book presents the results of the second research phase of the Gender and Politics in Latin America project, including seven national case studies and an analysis of the anti-gender dynamics at the 2021 Assembly of the Organization of American States […]
Read moreUS 2022 midterm elections: a compilation (English and Portuguese)
English US midterm elections: Democrats retain control of Senate as House race still undecided – as it happened – The Guardian Red Tsunami? More Like a Red Ripple. – The Nation How a G.O.P. Wave Became a Ripple – NY Times A ‘rainbow wave’ spreads across the U.S. as hundreds of LGBTQ candidates win elections […]
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Uýra Sodom’s organised revolt
Sonia Corrêa Uýra Sodoma is a non-binary Amazonian performance artist. She is intersectional in every sense. In one of her multiple layers, Uýra is a descendant of Mundurukus; in another, she is Emerson, a biologist who specializes in amphibians. In a 2018 interview, Emerson recalled that in 2016, when Brazil was experiencing a coup, “it […]
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Brief notes on the 2022 Brazilian elections (for those who don’t live in Brazil)
By Sonia Corrêa. These notes on the end of the Bolsonaro government are brief and very preliminary. As I was writing I was just adjusting to the atmosphere that started to be installed in Brazil on Sunday. To be more precise, last night when it became clear that, despite a cowardly and deplorable statement and last-minute coup attempts, we began a new political cycle. I will start sharing my sentiments and not objective information. My feeling today November 2nd 2022 is very different from the one that seized me, in 2018, when, in the wake of the astonishing electoral process that elected Bolsonaro to the presidency, I was overtaken by a productive anger. It made me immediately sit down and write an essay that, inspired an article by Celso Rocha Barros published that same day, I have titled “Brazilian Elections: Perfect Catastrophe?”
Read moreThe girl from Santa Catarina: another brutal attack against the right to legal abortion in Brazil
The case of the 11-year-old girl raped and barred by a female judge from having a legal abortion in Santa Catarina had wide repercussions in Brazil. The girl was compelled by the magistrate responsible for her case to “bear with it a little longer”. The judge sent her to a minors´ shelter as to hinder […]
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Sexual politics in June 2022: regressions and threats to abortion and LGBTQIA+ rights
In early July, we issued the Spanish version of our sexual politics bulletin, published in Portuguese and English in early June. More complete and updated, the Spanish version covered very relevant sexual politics events not included in the previous versions. In order to also update our Portuguese and English readers, we have decided to issue […]
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Judith Butler on Roe vs Wade, trans rights and the war on education
The philosopher and gender theorist says the restriction of abortion rights is part of a project to restore patriarchy. By Alona Ferber The fallout from the US Supreme Court ruling on 24 June that overturned Roe vs Wade, the decision that had guaranteed safe, legal abortions in America since 1973, is still being felt across the country. […]
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SPW’s Sonia Corrêa on the end of Roe: check our videos with her remarks
See our playlist featuring SPW co-chair Sonia Corrêa dedicated to analysing the roots, meanings and effects from the overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in US.
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The new anti-trans women rules in elite sports: the new face of an old ‘problem’
By Nana Soares The International Swimming Federation (FINA) announced at the World Championship, held in June in Budapest, a new technical-medical rule to regulate the participation of trans women in all modalities under its governance. According to the new parameters, trans women who have experienced stages of puberty as boys will no longer be allowed […]
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