TAG: feminisms

Let’s be diverse but docile: The “Revolution of joy” has arrived A few reflections on the new Argentinean government’s sexual politics

In an article written for SPW, Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani, from Akahatá, analyzes the sexual politics scenario after the 2015 elections. In her own words: The open question to be explored is what is the future of sexual and reproductive rights politics in the context of a neoliberal project that will necessarily imply old and new forms […]

Brazilian abortion politics: An update

During 2015, as previously reported by SPW, Brazilian abortion politics continued to evolve under pressures created by the unsettled intersection of regressive policy trends (which have been gaining strength since the mid 2000’s) and the macro-political crisis which has overtaken the Brazilian res publica.

OutRight Job Opening: Arabic Media Training Position

Arabic media training position is a 12- month, part-time staff position, with the possibility of renewal of contract for another year and/or increase in work hours. The position is responsible for leading OutRight’s Arabic media sensitivity program, which aims at reaching out to Arabic media outlets and journalists to provide them with a better understanding around sexual orientation, gender identity, and LGBTI rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa.

Egypt: Unprecedented crackdown on NGOs

In recent weeks, the Egyptian authorities have summoned human rights workers for questioning, banned them from travel and attempted to freeze their personal funds and family assets. These steps indicate that a five-year-old investigation into the funding and registration of independent human rights groups could soon result in criminal charges, 14 international organizations said today. […]

Call for Papers: Displacement – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites submissions for a special issue titled “Displacement,” slated for publication in spring 2018. The current refugee crisis gives new urgency to questions of gendered displacement. The United Nations’ most recent statistics place the number of registered Syrian refugees at 4.7 million, 50.7 percent of whom are […]

The many places of prostitution

In late November, 2015, the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/UFRJ) hosted a one week course called “A particular revolution: the Brazilian prostitute movement“. The course examined the roots, history, contexts and connections of the prostitutes’ movement since its founding in the 1970s. The Prostitution Policy […]

Sex work and empowerment

Writing for the first time about being a sex worker, the author says the industry has taught her feminism and empowerment.

Lohana Berkins – Travesti Rage Always!

Argentinean trans* activist, Lohana Berkins, died in Buenos Aires on February 5, 2016. AWID joins the voices and hearts remembering Lohana, a trans* activist who, along with others, created Asociación de Lucha por la Identidad Travesti y Transexual [ALITT, Association to Fight for Travesti and Transsexual Identity] in 1994. In 2008, she created and led “Nadia Echazú”, a textile cooperative, which is also a workshop-school […]

Remembering Lohana Berkins: Activist, Leader and Proud Transvesti

The LGBTQ community in Argentina, and the region at large continues to mourn the loss of one of its most vocal and compassionate leaders. Lohana Berkins, founding president of The Association for the Fight for Travesti and Transexual Identity (ALITT) passed away last week after a long period of hospitalization.

Lohana Berkins: after her death, she left us a legacy of trans and feminist struggle

It dawns. She leaves behind a dominant world angered by her smile, an enemy world that is not ours, a passage from silence to speech; lives crossed, names and identities that no longer pay with their bodies, under a sky that heals as it challenges us. It is dawning in tears and, accompanied, Lohana Berkins dies in Buenos Aires.

‘In Guatemala to be a feminist is not welcomed, a lesbian, even less so. I am a lesbian feminist’

Sandra Moran, the first openly gay member of Congress in Guatemala, says LGBT rights don’t define her – she is mainly known as a champion of women and indigenous people Sandra Moran made history when she took her seat in Guatemala’s Congress in January Photograph: Sandra Moran Nina Lakhani in Guatemala City Thursday 11 February […]

Sexual Politics in January 2016

The global epidemics fueled by the mosquito-born Zika virus, its potential correlation with microcephaly and the connection with abortion rights is one main headline in the sexual politics scenario of January 2016. And Brazil is at center of this crisis. To delve in the subject read Sonia Corrêa’s article. Then good news in relation to […]