Sexual politics in Brazil: Almost 180 days into the JMB Administration
With great pleasure, SPW offers an assessment of sexuality and gender politics, including abortion rights, in the first (almost) six months of the Jair Messias
Gender and Abortion Rights in the Congressional Scene
By Sonia Corrêa What has been happening, since January, in the Brazilian Congress regarding abortion rights and gender must be situated in a longer political.
Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality: A Minister Who Does Not Play Around
By Rajnia de Vito and Marco Aurélio Prado In a political scene that is thoroughly saturated with sex and gender tropes and memes, Damares Alves,
Lena Lavinas: “We’re watching a politics of dismantling”
Lena Lavinas is an economist and full professor at the Economics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2017, she published the

Bolsonaro attacks against universities: compilation of articles
Walking toward the cliff – Inside Higher Ed Bolsonaro’s budget cuts in Universities – Inside Higher Ed In Brazil, a Hostility to Academe – Inside
Bolsonaro’s budget cuts in universities
by Marcelo Knobel* By making what the minister considers a “very small cut”, it will be impossible for universities to conduct daily operations at even

Abortion rights in dispute
Alabama’s abortion ban is about keeping poor women down – The Guardian Trump fulfills his promises on abortion, and to Evangelicals – The New York
Sociology and philosophy under threat in Brazil – a petition signed by intellectuals from across the globe
The recent measures against sociology and philosophy in public universities that have been announced by the minister of education, and supported by the president, clarify
Sexual politics in April 2019
Highlights Algeria and Sudan: A revived Arab Spring? – Almost six years after the Arab Spring waned under the shadows of the Sissi regime, political
Un amendement constitutionnel menace le droit à l’avortement au Brésil
Une disposition qui pourrait aboutir à la criminalisation totale de l’avortement gagne du terrain au sein du Sénat brésilien. Un nouveau combat, essentiel à la







