Feminist Studies’s call for paper: Decolonial and Postcolonial Approaches: A Conversation
authoritarianism Deadline: March 1, 2016 Decolonial and postcolonial approaches have long informed and animated feminist scholarship and activism, but often not at once nor in
Why Do Men Kill Trans Women? Gender Theorist Judith Butler Explains
Butler’s insight into the lives and deaths of transgender women in 2015 penetrates beyond the surface details of their deaths. Her perspective illustrates a startling reality about the real cause of violence against trans women, and the fatal importance of an intersectional approach to the liberation of transgender people.
Reflections On The Limitations Of The Call For Full Criminalisation Of Marital Rape: Madhu Mehra
I will critically discuss the campaign for (full) criminalisation of marital rape to call attention to ways by which this campaign reduces a potentially tranformatory agenda on gender, sexuality and marriage, to one of law, crime and punishment.
13th AWID International Forum: Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice
The 13th AWID International Forum (Bahia, Brazil) will be a historic global gathering of women’s rights and social justice activists and movements. Click here for registration.
Puerto Rico court issues historic adoption ruling
Originally published on Washington Blade on 10/12/2015. Available at: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/12/10/puerto-rico-court-issues-historic-adoption-ruling/ A Puerto Rico court on Wednesday ruled for the first time that a same-sex couple
Holding Kings to Ransom – Royal Women in Matrilineal Kerala: Manu Pillai
Below is an edited excerpt from Manu S.Pillai’s forthcoming book from Harper Collins, The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore. The book throws interesting light on gender and political power in the matrilineal royal houses, and offers tantalizing hints about the pre-colonial roots of brahminical patriarchy in the region.
Sierra Leone Parliament votes to reform abortion law
Today in Sierra Leone, the country’s parliament voted unanimously in favor of a new abortion law that will make safe abortion legal. According to the World Health Organization, Sierra Leone has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, including significant contribution from unsafe abortion.
Dispatches: Japan’s Evolving Public Debate on LGBT Rights
When a local politician from Tokyo’s Ebisu district last week condemned media coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights issues and called gay people “abnormal” on Twitter, it came as a reminder of times past. It was just five years ago when Tokyo’s governor publicly called gay people “deficient.”
IACHR Publishes Report on Violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Persons
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today is publishing a regional report on the violence perpetrated against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI) persons or those perceived as LGBTI.
Northern Ireland law on abortion ruled ‘incompatible with human rights’
NI attorney general considers appealing against judgment that could see women being allowed terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, rape and incestt. Read more