Sexual politics in April 2019
Highlights Algeria and Sudan: A revived Arab Spring? – Almost six years after the Arab Spring waned under the shadows of the Sissi regime, political upheavals revived in the Arab World. In Algeria, after six weeks of persistent demonstrations, President Bouteflika, in power since 1999, was forced to withdraw from reelection and then to resign, leaving […]
Read moreA historical debt for Costa Rita: Ministry of Health finally registers Emergency Contraception
The 25 April 2019 was a historical day for sexual and reproductives rights in Costa Rica. On this date, the Ministry of Health published a note informing that it would allow the registration of a dedicated oral drug for emergency contraception. The Ministry had until then systematically rejected pharmaceutical companies applications and it was not […]
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SexPolitics: Trends & Tensions in the 21st Century
Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) would like to re-launch the fourth publication of its most recent cycle of transnational analyses on sexual politics that started in 2015 after some corrections were made. Volume 2 of the collection SexPolitics: Trends and Tensions in the 21st Century – Contextual Undercurrents comprises seven chapters chartering main trends and debates […]
Read moreSexual politics in March 2019
The Christchurch attack In Christchurch, New Zealand, a solitary white male Australian sniper killed fifty people who were praying in two mosques. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was appraised for the compassionate but firm handling of the tragedy, in particular because the policy measures immediately proposed to ban semiautomatic weapons among other actions (read more). The […]
Read moreHow sexual politics intersect with a shifting global landscape
SPW republishes the article “Reflecting on 2011 events: scattered notes on how sexual politics intersect with a shifting global landscape“, written by Sonia Corrêa, who analyzed the intertwine between the sexual and wider political contexts. She focuses on a myriad of noteworthy events in the year of 2011 and that to this day reflect […]
Read moreBrazilian presidential election: a perfect catastrophe?
by Sonia Corrêa Time to mourn Politics is both reasoning and affect. This is how the first version of this essay, written in the immediate aftermath of the Brazilian 2018 elections, began. The reasonable charting of what happened in Brazil was urgent, but also a painful exercise to engage with. Having watched, for many […]
Read moreSexual Politics in January and February 2019
#Hail International Women’s Day 2019: struggle, endurance, resistance! #Eyes on Brazil From an insider´s point of view, observing Brazilian politics after January 1st is like being caught in liquefier trying to make sense of the wind whirl turning one into pieces. SPW is planning a thorough assessment of the first 100 days of the new administration. For […]
Read moreBolsonaro’s Brazil
The teratology of the contemporary political imagination – plentiful enough: Trump, Le Pen, Salvini, Orbán, Kaczyński, ogres galore – has acquired a new monster. Rising above the ruck, the president-elect of Brazil has extolled his country’s most notorious torturer; declared that its military dictatorship should have shot thirty thousand opponents; told a congresswoman she was too […]
Read moreUN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders on “Gender Ideology”
On February 25th, Michel Forst, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders has delivered his report on the situation of human rights defenders. The report “describes the challenging environments in which they operate and analyses the impact of patriarchy and heteronormativity, ´gender ideology´, fundamentalisms, militarization, globalization and neoliberal policies on the rights of such […]
Read moreNSWP launches new global mapping of sex work laws
This map brings together information on laws which affect sex workers through the criminalisation of the sale and purchase of sexual services, and the facilitation, management or organisation of sex work, as well as other laws used to regulate sex work such as mandatory health checks and travel restrictions
Read moreSIGNS: Gender and the Rise of the Global Right
In this special issue of Signs, the contributors address the complex and powerful relationship between gender and the rise of the global Right. This discussion demonstrates how, in transnational terms, the Right has become a significant player in gender politics.
Read moreSexual politics round-up in 2018
As 2018 reaches its end, SPW publishes a recollection of main events, trends, discoveries and challenges as we start 2019 and prepare for all the struggles we will face together. TRENDS & FACTS January In the very beginning of 2018, the #MeToo movement (originally launched in 1997 by black feminist Tanara Burke) on sexual harassment […]
Read moreThe Brazilian 2018 Election: A perfect catastophre?
Read Sonia Corrêa’s article on the antecedents, outcomes and meanings of the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections.
Read moreWho are Jair Bolsonaro’s voters and what they believe
SPW gladly presents the ethnographic research work of Isabela Oliveira Kalil and her team at FESPSP on Bolsonaro and his different types of supporters. These research results are also part of a wider effort to map and analyze anti-gender politics in Latin America under SPW’s supervision. We would like to thank Isabela for her excellent […]
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