Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948, and died in 1985. Her early death, in 1985, in New York, triggered was highly controversial, as suspicions arose that she [...]Read more
This Orchid image drawn by Brigitte Ritcher was used in the materials of Inter Visibilidad, Visibilidad Intersex Forum, held at the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District of Mexico, in [...]Read more
Rodobrás is a work by Virginia de Medeiros, a Brazilian visual artist who, for many years, has portrayed — in photos, videos and installations — travestis who live in Salvador, [...]Read more
In SPW Newsletter nº8 (2010), we higlighted Zanele Muholi’s artwork about queer identities in South Africa. By that time, the Minister of Arts and Culture slashed a piece of art [...]Read more
Helena Almeida is a Portuguese artist born in Lisbon in 1934. Her work is mostly composed by black and white photographic self-portraits in which she consciously expresses a gesture or a [...]Read more
José Miguel Olivar Nieto, the author of the drawing Adriana is a social communicator. He has a master degree in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia) and [...]Read more
The photograph taken by @Confidence — a South African sex worker — guide readers to the article I am someone, like everyone else’: A story about a migrant sex [...]Read more
In June, 2015, SPW posted a fragment of the large painting by Paul Cézanne that is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This choice was not casual. We wanted [...]Read more
Since very early in time SPW has included Sexuality and Art as one topic of its Newsletter. In doing so we aimed at making visibility to artists from the global [...]Read more
In 2015, SPW has for the first time featured the work the Indian Artist Baaraan Ijlal. Ijlal, lives and works in New Delhi, India whose pictorical narrative style owes to [...]Read more
