Resurj: Shortcomings of Penal Policies in Addressing Sexual Rights Violations
Resurj, a global alliance of feminists advocating for sexual, reproductive and gender justice from across the globe, met in New York on April 16-17 2016 to scrutinize and identify the shortcomings and challenges of penal policies in addressing sexual and reproductive rights violations. After two days of fruitful discussions, case study presentations, and debates, Resurj […]
Read moreNew CHANGE resource on U.S. Foreign Assistance and Female Sex Workers’ Health
CHANGE has released its brand new report “All Women, All Rights, Sex Workers Included: U.S. Foreign Assistance and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Female Sex Workers.” The report was launched last week before the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. The report is the first of its kind as it reviews the […]
Read moreOral histories of LGBT people in Mongolia
Sponsored by the LGBT Centre (Mongolia)’s Youth Leadership Program, Batchimeg S. and Joe Lerangis began the “LGBT Oral History of Mongolia” project in February of 2015. Mongolia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and other sexual and gender minority-identifying people are an integral and substantial part of Mongolian society. Their voices, their perspectives, and their stories cannot go […]
Read moreMyth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016
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The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) released today (20/07) “Myth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016”. The publication was showed in the Global Village, Durban, South Africa. Using simple and objective language, the publication offers up hard-hitting analyses in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the Brazilian response to the epidemic, […]
Read moreBill Gates’ silver-bullet misfiring at the Mandela Memorial Lecture
Gates, who is worth $80 billion, specialises in top-down technicist quick-fixes, which often backfire on the economic shooting range of extreme corporate influence and neoliberal policies. On Sunday, Gates will get even richer, in terms of the moral legitimacy bestowed by the Mandela Lecture.
Read moreHow governments in the Global North can effectively partner with intermediary organizations to support LGBTI communities in the Global South and East
“The Road to Partnerships” was commissioned by GPP in fulfillment of a commitment made during the Conference to Advance the Human Rights of and Promote Inclusive Development for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons in Washington, DC in November 2014. The purpose of this report is to identify and discuss government funding case studies that […]
Read moreKohl’s new issue: Beyond Victims and Savages – The Complexities of Violence, Resistance, and Pleasure
Going beyond the dichotomy of victims and savages entails a nuanced understanding of violence. Such an understanding perceives mainstream violence as indivisible from other paradigms of large-scale oppression – hegemony, socioeconomic injustice, institutionalization, neoliberalism, occupation… It also accounts for the normalized violence we live on a daily basis, in silent acts of coercion, harassment, bullying, and self-damage, and the ways in which they are informed by macro instances of violence, and vice versa.
Read moreSexual politics in June 2016
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The proposal launched in May by the LAC 5 countries for the creation of a Special Mandate on Human Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (reported by SPW) has taken its course. On June 30th at the 32 Session of the UN Human Rights Council a resolution was adopted that establishes the mandate of […]
Read moreResearch Study in Canada Shows Needs of Rural Sex Workers
On the 20th of May in Brantford, Ontario (Canada), a report was released by Dr. Stacey Hannem and the organisation REAL that assesses the needs of rural sex workers. The report is called “Let’s Talk About Sex Work: Report of the REAL working group for Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk. Assessing the Needs of Sex […]
Read moreThe ‘state’ and sexual politics: An interview with Gloria Careaga
On March 2016, we relaunched our Spanish website that (among other things) provides access to the Spanish translation of Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights in Emerging Democracies. This book, authored by Rafael Dehesa, examines how sexuality became a fully legitimate political matter in Brazil and Mexico. Two months later, on […]
Read morePride and Prejudice: Sex Workers Are Excluded from Budapest Pride
The Pride movement is about fighting social exclusion and discrimination – but what if the Pride organisers themselves exclude and discriminate against those who are in the greatest need of support – LGBTI sex workers? This is what happened in Budapest, where a workshop on sex work was banned from the festival. The mission of […]
Read moreThe Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade
Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London’s epicentre of erotica and smut.
Read moreHow Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the United States
Utilizing data from the 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), which includes representative state-level surveys, Williams Institute scholars provide up-to-date estimates of the percentage and number of adults who identify as transgender in the United States. Approximately 0.6% of adults in the United States, or 1.4 million individuals, identify as transgender.
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