SPW Activities
Uýra Sodom’s organised revolt
Sonia Corrêa Uýra Sodoma is a non-binary Amazonian performance artist. She is intersectional in every sense. In one of her multiple layers, Uýra is a descendant of Mundurukus; in another, she is Emerson, a biologist who specializes in amphibians. In a 2018 interview, Emerson recalled that in 2016, when Brazil was experiencing a coup, “it […]
Read moreThe clashes triggered by anti-gender feminist strands
Since 2020, intense controversies against “gender” and trans rights have been unfolding that are mobilized by “gender-critical” feminist strands. As mentioned in previous issues, these tensions are not new but have gained scale and intensity since 2020 in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, and also in Latin America, especially in Mexico. It is not […]
Read moreRegional Research and Brazil Case: Local Devolution
July, 2019 Isabela Kalil: Políticas de direita criam ‘Bolsonaro protetor de mulheres’, diz estudiosa – Universa Isabela Kalil: ‘O bolsonarismo é maior que Bolsonaro’: projeto punitivista admite o intolerável e ameaça democracia – Sul 21 August, 2019 Isabela Kalil: As polêmicas declarações de Jair Bolsonaro – Globo News Antropóloga explica nuances da extrema-direita no Brasil […]
Read moreGender and Politics in Latin America
Since January 2018, SPW has been developing a research and action initiative on antigender politics in Latin America: the project Género y Política en América Latina (G&PAL). Within this new line of work, a meeting was held between January 28 and February 2, 2019, at the School of Sociology Foundation in São Paulo, to discuss […]
Read moreReport of the Durban Seminar
On July 13-15th, 2016 Sexuality Policy Watch organized the seminar/workshop SexPolitics: Mapping Key Trends and Tensions in the Early 21st Century in Durban, South Africa. Thirty-five researchers and activists from all over the world presented and discussed their analyses and views on how political landscapes related to sexuality have been reconfigured since 2002, when SPW […]
Read moreKey Trends and Tensions in sexual politics: a commentary
It also seemed to me that the general mood of pessimism came from the fact that most of the meeting’s participants were not digital natives, not exactly the ”globalized children”. This meant – again, with notable exceptions – that we still saw activism and policy advocacy
Read moreSexPolitics: Trends and tensions in the early 21st century
Right before the Durban International AIDS Conference SPW organized a seminar in Umhlanga. Thirty four researchers and activists from the Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe (plus remote participation from the post -Soviet countries) discussed key trends in sexual politics as well as specific topics such as queer theorizing, sexual rights, abortion, sex work […]
Read moreJuly 2016 – SPW Durban Seminar: SexPolitics: Mapping Key Trends and Tensions in the Early 21st Century
On July 13-15th, Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) is organizing, in Durban, South Africa, the seminar/workshop ‘SexPolitics: Mapping Key Trends and Tensions in the Early 21st Century’. In the event – whose title evokes SexPolitics: Reports from the Frontlines, published in 2007 – thirty-five researchers and activists from all over the world will present and discuss […]
Read moreSPW Activities – March 2015
On March 23rd and 24th a group of Brazilian feminists, including Sonia Corrêa have met with national authorities in Brasilia to present a petition protesting against the nefarious effects of unsafe clandestine abortion in Brazil and calling for the legalization of pregnancy termination. Fonte foto: Fellipe Sampaio / SCO / STF
Read moreSPW Activities – December 2014 / January 2015
The SPW partner in the “Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights Project’, the India researcher and activist akshay khanna participated in two events organized by Regions Re-focus: the workshop on Sexuality Policy for Structural Change, in Delhi (December, 2014) and the Inter-regional meeting held in New York (January, 2015)
Read moreSPW Activities – November, 2014
Gloria Careaga, member of SPW Steering Committee, and our working partner akshay khana spoke at the Men Engage Symposium, held in Delhi.
Read moreSPW Activities – October 2014
The SPW co-chair, Richard Parker, attended on 15 October, in Vietnam, the “Workshop on prevention approaches for MSM and HIV: global perspectives and Vietnam”, which discussed prevention and treatment to the LGBT community. Sonia Correa, SPW co-chair spoke in the panel “Sanctioned Sexualities” in the 27th International Conference of ILGA (International Association of Lesbian, Gay, […]
Read moreSPW Activities – September 2014
SPW co-chair Sonia Corrêa spoke at the panel on sexual and reproductive rights of the Women and Girls Rising Conference, held in New York on September 11th- 12th.
Read moreSPW Activities – August 2014
Richard Parker Participation at the 29th ABA Meeting in Natal On August 6th, 2014, SPW Co-cordinator Richard Parker participated in the Round Table on Challenges for Sexuality Research and Sexual Politics at 29th Meeting of the Brazilian Anthropological Association in Natal, Brazil. He shared the panel — which was coordinated by Miriam Gross– with Eric […]
Read moreSPW Activities – July, 2014
Sonia Corrêa and SPW partners in the “Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights Project” — akshay khana, Cai Yiping, Laura Waisbich — – attended the Civil Societies’ Dialogues on Development, parallel to the VI Summit of BRICS Presidents, Fortaleza, Brazil (July 14th-17th) (linkar para os videos)
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