Sexual politics from January to June 2024 (Part 2)
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>> Read in PDF << Part 2 – Continuing anti-gender offensives Gender politics: good news Inevitably, the political situation described in part 1 of this issue is marked by anti-gender attacks, attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights, and, as we’ll see below, on the right to abortion. However, we also have some good news. In the international […]
Read moreSexual politics from January to June 2024 (Part 1)
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>> Read in PDF << Part 1 – Democracies in dispute Introduction As we have pointed out in previous editions, in recent years sexual politics has become inseparable from the dynamics of de-democratization and authoritarianism that have been growing around the world – with particular strength in the Americas and Europe, where democratic regimes seemed […]
Read moreSexual Politics from July to November 2023
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>> Download and read in PDF << First Words This edition of the SPW newsletter covers the main events in sexual politics since July, roughly the second half of 2023. As we have pointed out in previous editions, especially since the pandemic, the sexual politics of the 21st century is indelibly intertwined with the de-democratizing […]
Read moreSonia Corrêa interview at SDGSummit2030: September 2023
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Feminist Voices at #SDGSummit2030 on “Speak out against anti-gender and anti-rights narratives and actions to achieve the 2030 Agenda” with Sonia Correa, Co-Coordinator, Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), Brazil. Hosted by Dr. Racheal Misan-Ruppee. Watch below:
Read moreSexual Politics from February to July 2023
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>>> Read/download in PDF <<< Opening Words This newsletter describes and seeks to contextualize the developments in sexual politics since February 2023. In times of democratic deterioration around the world, sexual politics, our object of analysis, inevitably finds itself entangled in authoritarian shifts. The pervasive effects of de-democratization are palpable in anti-gender political dynamics and […]
Read moreSexual Politics in 2022: Retrospective
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>> Read in PDF << First words In 2022, we adjusted our perspective for monitoring and analyzing sexual politics. In the previous two years, our editorial focus had been the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. As the dramatic and brutally lethal epidemiological scenarios have abated, we have refocused on the national and transnational dynamics of […]
Read moreArticle “Welcome to the Kremlin” – by Klementyna Suchanov
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This article is one of the chapters of the book “This is War”, written by the Polish feminist journalist Klementyna Suchanova. We dearly thanks her for sharing it with SPW readers. Read it here
Read moreSexual Politics from August to November 2022
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>> Download as PDF << Preface Due to its relevance in Brazil and the rest of the world, we rescheduled the publication of our newsletter to be able to include the results of the Brazilian elections that, thanks to the votes of the poorest people, women, the black population, and indigenous peoples, mean the end […]
Read moreNEW E-BOOK: Anti-Gender Politics in Latin America in the Pandemic Context
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SPW has launched the English version of our latest research. The e-book “Anti-Gender Politics in Latin America in the Pandemic Context” presents the results of the second research phase of the Gender and Politics in Latin America (GPAL) project, including seven national case studies (🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇪🇨🇺🇾) and an analysis of the anti-gender dynamics at the 2021 […]
Read moreAnti-gender politics in Latin America during the pandemic: A review – Launching debate
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SPW has launched the e-book “Antigender Policies in Latin America in the Pandemic Context”. The e-book presents the results of the second research phase of the Gender and Politics in Latin America project, including seven national case studies and an analysis of the anti-gender dynamics at the 2021 Assembly of the Organization of American States […]
Read moreSexual politics in June 2022: regressions and threats to abortion and LGBTQIA+ rights
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In early July, we issued the Spanish version of our sexual politics bulletin, published in Portuguese and English in early June. More complete and updated, the Spanish version covered very relevant sexual politics events not included in the previous versions. In order to also update our Portuguese and English readers, we have decided to issue […]
Read moreSPW’s Sonia Corrêa on the end of Roe: check our videos with her remarks
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See our playlist featuring SPW co-chair Sonia Corrêa dedicated to analysing the roots, meanings and effects from the overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in US.
Read moreJamil Chade: Letter to an 11-year-old girl
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By Jamil Chade Dear young girl, While your story was the subject of a dramatic debate in Brazil, I tell you that in a room here at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, men in suits – and a few women – were negotiating the text of a resolution on your destiny. […]
Read moreSexual Politics from March to May 2022
>>> Read in PDF First Words Since April 2020, SPW newsletters have been tracking and analyzing sexual politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of health crisis and after brutal and repeated spikes of mortality spread over several regions and countries, the pandemic is finally ebbing thanks to the immunization achieved […]
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