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Papers and articles

Bolsonaro’s most radical supporters only believe what he tells them

As Brazil has been rising the tops of global coronavirus dissemination curve and Bolsonaro’s popularity hits a new low, his most radical support base has remained by his side. Its [...] Read more

The Non-Essential Transphobia of Pandemic Disaster Politics

by Dr. Jacob Breslow You might think that in this particular moment, when there are so many lives to grieve, and when hundreds of millions of people globally are desperate [...] Read more

COVID-19 and AIDS: parallels and lessons

by Richard Parker* In the COVID-19 pandemic, the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic emergence and responses offers lessons for reflecting on the current challenges and risks we face. The first [...] Read more

Back to where we always have been: sex/gender segregation to contain Covid-19

by Sonia Corrêa[1] But, people die, don’t they? Yes, indeed. However, the current naturalization of death erases thinking – Santiago López Petit In the first week of April, the international press reported that, in [...] Read more

The Prostitute, the Virus, and the City

Prostitution Policy Watch, IPPUR, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Authors: Soraya Silveira Simões, Laura Murray, Patrícia de Moura e Silva Toledo, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Ana Paula Silva   More [...] Read more

Bukele: A ‘caudilho’ Dies and A Messiah is Born in El Salvador

SPW begins a series of brief analyses of the Covid-19 crisis in contexts that are generally under-reported by the mainstream press and which are characterized as regressive in relation to [...] Read more

Nicaragua: A Pandemic Carnival

“Amor en los tiempos del covid-19” march, organized by the government. Photo: EFE. Nicaragua and the dance of horrors in the struggle against COVID 19 by Humberto Meza* This article [...] Read more

The 2019 election in Uruguay: a new relation of forces

by Santiago Puyol The elections held in Uruguay on Sunday, October 27th, represented the greatest news for the Uruguayan political system fifteen years after the victory of the left-wing coalition [...] Read more

Chile Uprising: A Call for Dignity

Jaime Barrientos, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. Manuel Cárdenas, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Valparaíso, Chile. In Chile, at the beginning of October 2019, we were led to believe [...] Read more

Three Cards and a Joker: Bolsonaro and the Marielle Case

by Isabela Kalil   The Context On October 29, 2019, Jornal Nacional (the main Brazilian television newspaper, broadcast by Rede Globo) reported that the name of Brazil’s current president, Jair [...] Read more

Uproar and Perversity: Gender and Sexuality in the Vortex of Politics

by Sonia Corrêa A few days before completing the symbolic mark of Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s – or  JMB’s – first 100 days of government, consecrated in western democracies as the [...] Read more

Permanent War, Decreasing Popularity: What Will Come Next?

by Fábio Grotz A continuous state of war driven by the government is what drives the speech and activities of actors engaged in the redemptive mission to “transform and purify” [...] Read more

Sexual politics in Brazil: Almost 180 days into the JMB Administration

With great pleasure, SPW offers an assessment of sexuality and gender politics, including abortion rights, in the first (almost) six months of the Jair Messias Bolsonaro (JMB) government. The essays [...] Read more

Gender and Abortion Rights in the Congressional Scene

by Sonia Corrêa What has been happening, since January,  in the Brazilian Congress regarding abortion rights and gender must be situated in a longer political. The current real or potential [...] Read more

Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality: A Minister Who Does Not Play Around

by Rajnia de Vito and Marco Aurélio Prado In a political scene that is thoroughly saturated with sex and gender tropes and memes, Damares Alves, head of the new Ministry [...] Read more
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