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.
A Tribute to Katherine Cuellar Bravo
In May 2020, Katherine Cuellar Bravo, a young Colombian researcher from the public health field, has passed away. She was responsible for the Colombian case study of the Global Emergency in Health, Zika, and Abortion Research in Latin America, led by the International Development Department of the London School of Economics in association with researchers […]
Read moreAgamben and the pandemic: critiques and responses
Giorgio Agamben: The Plague was Already Present – Critical Legal Thinking Giorgio Agamben: Contagion – Enough 14 COVID-19 and the neoliberal state of exception – Al Jazeera Philosophy and Pandemic in the Postdigital Era: Foucault, Agamben, Žižek – NCBI States of Emergency, Metaphors of Virus, and COVID-19 – Verso Books Giorgio Agamben’s Coronavirus Cluelessness – […]
Read moreIESOGI Report on Conversion Therapy
“Conversion therapy” practices Key findings PDF: English | Spanish | Portuguese Full Report PDF: English
Read moreViolence against LGBT during the pandemic
PROTECTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTI PEOPLE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – Amnesty International LGBTQ Inequality and Vulnerability in the Pandemic – HRW COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated stigma, discrimination against LGBT people: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – Online Citizen Asia Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020 – Human Rights […]
Read moreA catch in the US Supreme Court decisions
US Supreme Court LGBT worker ruling has a giant loophole – Al Jazeera Devil in the detail of SCOTUS ruling on workplace bias puts LGBTQ rights and religious freedom on collision course – The Conversation Supreme Court clashes over meaning of ‘sex’ in LGBT discrimination cases – CNBC The problem with that big gay rights […]
Read moreCOVID-19 in prisons: compilations of news
North America US The Coronavirus Crisis Inside Prisons Won’t Stay Behind Bars – NY Times Stop Unnecessary Arrests to Slow Coronavirus Spread – NY Times Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide – NY Times COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities — United States, February–April 2020 – CDC Large Numbers at […]
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Anti-gender activist Sara Winter arrested
On Monday, June 15th, anti-gender activist Sara Winter was arrested in Brasilia in a Federal Police operation. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued a preventive arrest warrant against Winter and five other members of the “300 of Brazil” group at the request of the deputy attorney general, Humberto Jacques de Medeiros, as part of […]
Read moreGender 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 Analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic
Monthly announcements Special Edition on COVID-19 and Sexual Politics: May & June New! COVID -19 and Politics in March-April 2020 Articles Back to where we always have been: sex/gender segregation to contain Covid-19, by Sonia Corrêa Biopolitics & the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Feminist Perspective, by Sonia Corrêa – DAWN COVID-19 and AIDS: parallels and […]
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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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