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An interview with Massimo Prearo: The Zan Law failure, the neo – Catholic movement and Vatican’s Politics:  

In the last Special Issue of last year we have done a brief assessment of Vatican politics. Concomitantly, we  published an article by the Italian political scientist Massimo Prearo on [...] Read more

Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: January-July 2021

First Words  In the last 2020 edition of Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic Special of 2020, we hypothesized that throughout 2021, with the arrival of vaccines, COVID-19 might no [...] Read more

Celebrating “Nossos Corpos por Nós Mesmas” and Transnational Feminist Health!

After more than two years in the making, the first volume of “Nossos Corpos por Nós Mesmas,” has arrived! The book, a Brazilian Portuguese adaptation of “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” covers [...] Read more

Peru: Dire prospects of the Pedro Castillo Government

Pedro Castillo Terrones is 51 years old and is a primary school teacher, farmer, and militia member. He studied education and obtained a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the [...] Read more

Lucile Boiron’s Above All: An Exploration of the Living

The photos in Lucile Boiron’s series Mise en pièce, taken between a cosmetic surgery theatre and her own home, are graphic. The project sees Lucile place shots of body parts on operating [...] Read more

Brazil: New president of the House opens the road for anti-abortion provisions

by Thais Rodrigues and Edson Sardinha* Brazilian conservative and extreme -right parlimentarians  are planing to take advantage of the new presidency of the House, MP Arthur Lira (from the Partido [...] Read more

Recommendations on Brazil to President Biden

With the contribution and/or endorsement of 100 academics from universities such as Harvard, Brown and Columbia, and of organizations such as Greenpeace USA, Amazon Watch, Center for Economic and Policy [...] Read more

Analysing the intersection between health emergencies and abortion during Zika in Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia

Journal Social Science & Medicine Volume 270, February 2021 by Clare Wenhama, Camila Abagarob, Amaral Arévaloc, Ernestina Coasta, Sonia Corrêad, Katherine Cuéllare, Tiziana Leonea, Sandra Valongueirob Abstract The Zika outbreak [...] Read more

Pope Francis discursive games

Since 2013, Pope Francis I has been making unexpected comments about homosexuality, which usually call for compassion and tolerance. While these speech acts erupt here and there, the flow of [...] Read more

Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: July to December 2020

Editors’ Note We apologize to our readers and partners for the delay in making our last Special Issue on Sexual Politics in the Pandemic available. This delay was due to [...] Read more

Brief note on the politology of a Catholic discourse

by Massimo Prearo* That words such as “revolution”, “change” or “turn” can be attributed to a religious institution like the Catholic Church, or to the words of a pope, says [...] Read more

Amnesty International’s Updated Abortion Policy: FAQs

We have updated our position to align with evolving international human rights law and standards, to make it as inclusive as possible, and to ensure it addresses the full range [...] Read more

Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”

Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance. It [...] Read more

Monsters Under the Bed

A series of memes and messages were recently circulated throughout the continent with the aim of alerting people to an alleged movement that would be seeking to normalize pedophilia. What [...] Read more

The case of the girl from Espírito Santo: Is this a new turning point in the long journey for abortion rights in Brazil?

by Sonia Corrêa Since 1940, Brazilian law has permitted abortion in cases of rape,  and sexual intercourse with persons under 14 years old is automatically  defined as rape. In 1999, [...] Read more
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