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Sexual Politics from July to November 2023

>> Download and read in PDF << First Words This edition of the SPW newsletter covers the main events in sexual politics since July, roughly the second half of 2023. As we have pointed out in previous editions, especially since the pandemic, the sexual politics of the 21st century is indelibly intertwined with the de-democratizing […]

Sexual Politics in 2022: Retrospective

>> Read in PDF << First words In 2022, we adjusted our perspective for monitoring and analyzing sexual politics. In the previous two years, our editorial focus had been the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. As the dramatic and brutally lethal epidemiological scenarios have abated, we have refocused on the national and transnational dynamics of […]

Sexual Politics from August to November 2022

>> Download as PDF << Preface Due to its relevance in Brazil and the rest of the world, we rescheduled the publication of our newsletter to be able to include the results of the Brazilian elections that, thanks to the votes of the poorest people, women, the black population, and indigenous peoples, mean the end […]

The girl from Santa Catarina: another brutal attack against the right to legal abortion in Brazil

The case of the 11-year-old girl raped and barred by a female judge from having a legal abortion in Santa Catarina had wide repercussions in Brazil. The girl was compelled by the magistrate responsible for her case to “bear with it a little longer”. The judge sent her to a minors´ shelter as to hinder […]

Sexual politics in June 2022: regressions and threats to abortion and LGBTQIA+ rights

In early July, we issued the Spanish version of our sexual politics bulletin, published in Portuguese and English in early June. More complete and updated, the Spanish version covered very relevant sexual politics events not included in the previous versions. In order to also update our Portuguese and English readers, we have decided to issue […]

SPW’s Sonia Corrêa on the end of Roe: check our videos with her remarks

See our playlist featuring SPW co-chair Sonia Corrêa dedicated to analysing the roots, meanings and effects from the overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in US.

Jamil Chade: Letter to an 11-year-old girl

By Jamil Chade Dear young girl, While your story was the subject of a dramatic debate in Brazil, I tell you that in a room here at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, men in suits – and a few women – were negotiating the text of a resolution on your destiny. […]

The “Gilead” decision: a compilation

As predicted since December, when a public hearing on the Dobbs case took place, on June 24th 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court, overturned the right to abortion established in the 1973 Roe Vs. Wade decision. The decision did not surprise those who follow the realm of sexual politics, especially after the leaking of the decision’s […]

Sexual Politics from March to May 2022

>>> Read in PDF First Words Since April 2020, SPW newsletters have been tracking and analyzing sexual politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of health crisis and after brutal and repeated spikes of mortality spread over several regions and countries, the pandemic is finally ebbing thanks to the immunization achieved […]

Anti-abortion drive in US: compilation

Anti-abortion trend: macro and political analysis If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, What’s Next? – New Yorker 2022 State Legislative Sessions: Abortion Bans and Restrictions on Medication Abortion Dominate – Guttmacher Institute Conservatives on Supreme Court Prepare to “Gut Roe v. Wade” as State Abortion Bans Multiply – Democracy Now A Reproductive-Rights Activist Explains the […]

Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic – 2021 Retrospective

>>> Download the PDF version here. First Thoughts The last 2020 SPW special hypothesized that during 2021, because of vaccines, Covid-19 would no longer be our main topic, but that did not prove to be the case. The pandemic followed its devastating course with the emergence of new, more aggressive variants, and the loss of […]

Colombia Supreme Court’s decision on abortion: compilation on the February 2022 rulling

Landmark Decision on Colombia Abortion Rights – Human Rights Watch Statements from the Center for Reproductive Rights on the Constitutional Court Decision Decriminalizing Abortion in Colombia – Center for Reproductive Rights Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion – New York Times Colombia legalises abortion in move celebrated as ‘historic victory’ by campaigners – The Guardian Colombia decriminalises abortion […]