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.
TGEU publishes revised legal gender recognition toolkit.
Transgender Europe (TGEU), launching the revised edition of the Legal Gender Recognition toolkit hope it can inspire more change across Europe in the area of gender recognition procedures. The Legal Gender Recognition Toolkit is the most up to date overview based on European human right standards. Legal gender recognition in Europe is complex but also […]
Read moreQueering Islamophobia – The Homonationalism of the Muslim Ban
As we resist Trump’s potential anti-LGBTQ orders, it’s important to remember that even though Trump is himself transphobic and homophobic, he can get on the side of LGBTQ rights when it’s convenient.
Read moreMissing Frameworks in the Gender Equality Movement in Indonesia?
I attended an event by UN Women Indonesia called “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” in Jakarta after I left my wonderful academic year at IDS. It was series of seminars and workshops by feminist organisations to celebrate International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Human Rights Day. The event helped […]
Read moreAn European response to the National Geographic special issue ‘Gender Revolution’
Transgender Europe (TGEU) calls on the National Geographic to publish a response[1] to the European trans community who has been negatively affected by the translation, and original content in several European editions, of the National Geographic’s special issue magazine published in January 2017. While in the USA the special issue “Gender Revolution”, along with a […]
Read moreAccess to misoprostol through community-based advocacy in Kenya and Tanzania
This initiative proves that, even where abortion is legally restricted and socially stigmatized, community-based organizations can publicly and openly share information about misoprostol and refer it to women by using innovative and effective strategies, without political backlash
Read moreSexual Politics in January 2017
In January, the first and foremost events to be reported are avalanche of draconian and regressive policy measures adopted in the chaotic first two weeks of the Trump administration. Though buried beneath the impact of outrageous closure of borders and decisions about trade agreements – which are subject to contradictory interpretations — gender and sexuality […]
Read moreThe Editorial: Films and Sexuality – In Plainspeak
The arts hold great sway on how sexuality is viewed, represented, and understood. Does art imitate life, or life, art? Or can it be tossed away as an inscrutable mix of the two influencing each other?
Read moreAssessments of Gorsuch nomination to Supreme Court
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court Trump Nominates Birth Control Benefit Foe Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court – Rewire Trump Nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court – Mother Jones Gorsuch expected to follow Scalia’s lead in opposing abortion on supreme court – The Guardian […]
Read moreThe Trumping of global sexual politics: a preliminary assessment
In the first two weeks of his administration Donald Trump has opened a can of worms spreading around draconian and regressive conservative policy measures to close borders, to retreat from international agreements including in relation to trade and also to signal towards more aggressive military interventions “if required”. As predicted by the tone of the […]
Read moreLebanon Edges Closer to Decriminalizing Same-sex Conduct
A Lebanese judge challenged the legal basis of the arrest of men for same-sex conduct, declaring in a Metn court ruling last week that “homosexuality is a personal choice, not a criminal offence”.
Read moreReflections on Trump, by Judith Butler
My own sense is that Trump unleashed a rage that has several objects and several causes, and we should probably be skeptical of those who claim to know the true cause and the exclusive object. The condition of economic devastation and disappointment, the loss of hope in the face of an economic future brought on by economic
Read moreThe Women’s March on Washington was inevitable
With endorsement of the Republican Party, the Trump campaign openly disrespected and insulted more than half of the US population and this led to what can be described as a “pressure cooker effect”. After months of an unprecedented election season when Hillary and all women were mistreated by the candidate — who felt entitled to abuse his position– and sometimes also by the press; after outrageous remarks and threats to attack immigrants, Muslims, Mexican-Americans and the entire American population of African descent, the build up of outrage was steaming from coast to coast.
Read moreAlia Farid: Memory, space, movement
In November, 2016, SPW section on Art&Sexuality featured the work of Kátia Sepúlveda, one of the 46 women selected for the 32th São Paulo Art Bienal. In January 2017, we have chosen another of them to be one of the artists of the month. Alia Farid is Kuwaitian and lives in Puerto Rico. Spatialization, movement […]
Read moreShibboleth: lethal cracks
By Sonia Corrêa Searching for works of art that would reflect the dystopian state of world affairs in January 2017, I recalled walking over the (already filled) crack wide opened by Doris Salcedo, in 2007, on the ground floor of the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern to create Shibboleth. Every time I crossed the hall […]
Read moreWomen’s march against Trump: news and analyses
Massive and global women’s protest raged through the world and stormed the headlines in a historical action to protest and mark a clear standpoint against Donald Trump’s government and all the dangerous and nefarious setbacks he represents to human rights community. Aware of the major earthquake in the sexual politics prompted by the recent developments, SPW […]
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