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.
Statements after the massacre at an Orlando LGBT nightclub
Solidarity with the LGBTQI community – Frida Mourning Orlando’s Loss from Kabul – Open Society India vigils in memory of Orlando shooting victims – Orinam End Hate, End Violence: GALANG Philippines’ Statement on the Orlando Shooting Massacre Mesahat Foundation Statement on Orlando Massacre.pdf ILGA Statement on Tragic Shooting in Orlando – ILGA The O Pakistan […]
Read moreRemarkable analyses of the Orlando killings: A compilation
The mass shooting at the Pulse, the nightclub in Orlando, took over the media screens and pages on the third week of June 2016. The tragedy has also been the subject of a series of very good analyses, which examine its many intersections in terms of sexual politics, the politics of religion, geopolitics, Islamophobia, masculinities […]
Read moreIndia vigils in memory of Orlando shooting victims
By Orinam Jun 13 2016 A makeshift memorial with flowers and handprints rests in a parking lot near the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. source: Getty via NPR The mass shooting in Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, US, during the early hours of June 12, resonates with those of us who have faced […]
Read moreOrlando, Mon Amour: Stand against Terror and Hate
Early reports suggest that Mateen pledged allegiance to “Islamic State” while launching his shooting spree. We will know more in the days to come. I am grateful to those who are righteously rushing in to defend Muslims from the inevitable backlash and deplorable discrimination in the shell-shocked wake of this massacre. However, I would also ask them not to do so by downplaying the harsh realities of Islamist political ideology and the way it purveys hatred against many groups, including gays.
Read moreFear and Loathing in Orlando
The drumbeats have started. Almost immediately after a mass shooting that left over fifty people dead on Latin night in a Florida gay nightclub, Pulse, the news shifted to the identity of the shooter himself. As soon as his name and the fact that his father immigrated (long ago) from Afghanistan was announced, the narrative began unfolding as Naeem Mohaiemen put it, on cue: This must be a terrorist attack.
Read more“Everything needed to be changed. Fortunately, we have already started”
This is a late chronicle for several reasons. The obvious one is that it has already been more than 10 days since May 17, the International Day against Transphobia (and other wrongly called ‘phobias’ as they have nothing to do with personal pathologies but rather are social devices to preserve privileges).
Read moreUN Human Rights mandate on SOGI
At the UN Human Rights Council the LAC Group 5 – formed by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay – announced the decision to submit to the Council a resolution proposing the creation of the mandate of an independent expert to discuss violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI-OSIG). The proposal […]
Read moreSRI calls for political and legal framing that recognizes full range of sexual rights
The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) is a coalition of organizations from Canada, Poland, India, Egypt, Argentina and South Africa that have been advocating together for the advancement of human rights related to gender, sexuality and reproduction at the UN Human Rights Council since 2006. We are committed to and strongly in support of rights related […]
Read moreBrazil: The conservative restoration and sexual politics
It is not exactly to keep track of the Brazilian political development these days. On May 11th, the Brazilian Senate confirmed the admissibility of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, which had been approved by the House on April 17th.
Read moreHifa Cybe: Memories of Violence
When rape and sexual violence invaded the public debate in Brazil, SPW brings, once again, attention to the work of Hifa Cybe. This Brazilian artist born in the Rio Paraíba valley between Rio and São Paulo has a vast production in photography and design but also in performative, video and body art. One of her […]
Read moreCall for papers: The Geographies of Bodies and Borders
The fourth issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research is calling for papers to be published in December 2016. In addition to research articles, it welcomes opinion pieces, testimonies, essays, interviews, literary pieces, other texts, and visual and audiovisual material. The deadline is July 4, 2016. For this issue of Kohl, the […]
Read moreSino-Soviet “Friendship”: postcards from the 1950’s
In a seminar at the University of Washington in Seattle, in May 2016, I met Yu Yin, a Chinese student. Yin had in her cell an amazing collection of postcards in socialist realism style of the 1950s and she told me that they were part of the Chinese state propaganda then made to celebrate the […]
Read moreBrazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence
Two different protests, two different countries, but the same continent and the same cause: violence against women in “macho” Latin America.
Read more‘Illegal, but they’re everywhere’: How women help other women get abortions
In Indonesia, where abortion is illegal, many women undergo unsafe abortions putting their lives at risk. Other times, they are forced by doctors to engage in sexual intercourse in exchange for an abortion.
Read moreNauru Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct, Suicide
Nauru’s government has updated its archaic criminal code, striking same-sex relations and suicide off the list of crimes.
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