Kohl’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.
Politics, abortion, sexuality in Brazil (2015-2016) : A compilation
Between May 2015 and September 2016, Sexuality Policy Watch has produced monthly brief reports on the Brazilian politics of abortion and sexuality in its connections
Research 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
Women artists: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian born artist who moved to the United States in 1999. Her main medium is collage and her works are
Women artists: Maria Teresa Hincapié
Maria Teresa was Colombian actress who became a visual art performer. She died of cancer in 2008. Her art directly dialogued with the impacts of
London’s Romanian Sex Workers Are Worried That Brexit Would Screw Them
Against the backdrop of the EU referendum campaign, London-based Romanian women sex workers are using EU law to challenge the police and fight for their rights. Under Operation Nexus, the Met are monitoring Romanian sex workers, rounding them up and ordering them to leave the country because they claim that sex work doesn’t count as legitimate employment.
Pride and Prejudice: Sex Workers Are Excluded from Budapest Pride
Originally posted by Peter Sarosi at the Drug Reporter on 01/07/2016. Available at: https://drogriporter.hu/en/pride-and-prejudice-sex-workers-are-excluded-from-budapest-pride/ The Pride movement is about fighting social exclusion and discrimination –
The 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.
The creation of a UN SOGI mandate
On June 30th the Human Rights Council, after a complex and difficult negotiation has voted a resolution that establishes the mandate of and Independent Expert
Applications for MATI 2016 now open – deadline: 20 July
Source: http://www.genderjustice.org.za/news-item/applications-mati-2016-now-open/