Desacralizing: Paula Rego’s Abortion Pastels
by Sonia Corrêa When, in 1998, the proposal to legalize abortion in Portugal was defeated in a first referendum, the acclaimed painter Paula Rego produced
Barbara Wagner: bodies as they are
During August, 2016, as the Olympic Games evolved, Brazilian and world screens were flooded with young, beautiful, enhanced, fit, ‘efficient’ bodies that happily competed and
Attack on Trans and Prostitutes
The on-going political conservative trends that has brought us the Brazilian “soft coup”, BREXIT and the candidacy of Donald Trump has also resulted in an increase in reactionary politics across the political spectrum, even among “radicals” and “progressives”. In Brazil, this has been recently manifest in attacks against
Eugenia Matricardi: body/water/combat
Maria Eugenia Matricardi is a visual artist and a Doctorate student in Contemporary Poetics at the University of Brasília – UnB. She lives in the
Myth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016
The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) released today (20/07) “Myth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016”. The publication was showed in
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
Sexual politics in June 2016
The proposal launched in May by the LAC 5 countries for the creation of a Special Mandate on Human Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender
Brazil in crisis: Another update
In June, 2016, as the impeachment of Dilma Roussef followed its course, it became increasingly evident that one of the strongest motivations of the power maneuvering that led to the April parliamentary coup was the interest of many of those supporting this move to strangle the ongoing investigations on corruption.