Throughout 2025, SPW participated in several national and international events and, together with new and old partners, promoted debates and launched new publications.
In the context of “Pending and Emerging Dialogues,” a regional platform of which we are part, two webinars were held. The first, in May, analyzed the domestic and transnational effects of the new Trump administration. In June, successful examples of resistance to far-right policies in the United States, Argentina, and Hungary were revisited. To watch the videos, check out the playlist.
We also highlight the International Symposium “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”, held at UFMG, in Belo Horizonte, in January. The event featured a virtual conference by Judith Butler, whose latest book inspired the Symposium, in which the feminist philosopher reflected on “radical equality.”
In May, Sonia Corrêa, co-coordinator of SPW, participated in the symposium La Democratie au Féminin, in Dakar (Senegal), dedicated to the work and political activities of Senegalese feminist Fatou Sow. The record of the debates is available here.
In July, SPW participated in the International Association for Gender and Language Conference (in Montevideo), presenting the “Small Dictionary of Ambiguous Terms in Current Political Debate.” Also in July, we participated in a roundtable discussion at the Norwegian Embassy in Brasília, highlighting attacks on gender and transgender people in the country, as described in the Mid-Term Report of the RPU Brazil Collective, which monitors recommendations to the Brazilian State via the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), of which SPW is a member. In August, Sonia Corrêa lectured on the closing Conference of the First International Seminar on Gender in Dispute at UFABC.
The following month, the second edition of the Latin American and Caribbean Intermovements Meeting, organized by PROMSEX, took place in Lima, bringing together a hundred participants to widen discussions started in 2024 on the urgent need for greater coordination between the agendas of gender, sexuality, public safety, and the environment. The SPW team actively participated in this meeting, which is available on the Clacai website.
In October and November, we attended the International Forum that preceded the 42nd Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the VIII Regional Conference of Clacai, both in Bogotá.
We also launched several new products.
In 2024, the Association for Sexual and Reproductive Rights invited Sonia Corrêa to coordinate a study on the transnational impacts of the Spanish far right. The research involved Spain, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Kenya, and its results, released in October this year, are available in the report “De España al Mundo la proyección global de la ultraderecha española contra los derechos sexuales y reproductivos” (From Spain to the World: the global projection of the Spanish far right against sexual and reproductive rights), available in Spanish and English (and also in Catalan).
Last August, we launched the e-book Ruinologia: a cartography of anti-gender politics in the Bolsonaro government (2019–2022), the result of a research in partnership with the Center for LGBT+ Human Rights and Citizenship at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (NUH/UFMG) on the policies of the Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights (MMFDH) during the Bolsonaro government.
In November, we published the results of the research project Blurred Boundaries: Feminist and Women’s Movements and Anti-Gender Politics in Brazil, a cartography of essentialist feminist currents in Brazil, carried out in partnership with the National Association of Transvestites and also NUH/UFMG, an effort supported by Ação Educativa, CLADEM, Crioula, IPAS, and Nem Presa Nem Morta.
Finally, two new podcasts: “Cultural Marxism” and “Political Correctness” were produced by the SPW-Labjor/Unicamp partnership for the Ambiguous Terms series, inspired by our Small Dictionary, which also received an Honorable Mention this year at the IV Rubra University Radio Awards, in the “Institutional Projects” category.