TAG: gender equality
Gender Perspectives on Torture: Law and Practice
I once asked a Guatemalan public defender how she knew when a woman’s murder was the result of gender-based violence and not a simple homicide. She showed me several pictures of women’s half or fully naked bodies exhibiting obvious signs of torture, mutilation, and violent sexual assault prior to their deaths. She said that was […]
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Can a subaltern speak?
Can a subaltern speak? No, is the response of the feminist philosopher Gayatri Spivak, when she realizes that to “have the right to a voice” the place of the subaltern must be subverted.
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Abortion and gender identity in Brazil in the midst of uncertainties
by Sonia Corrêa Brazilian abortion and sexual politics continue ensnarled by the uncertainties of the overall political environment. On February 16th, a presidential decree determined an intervention in the public security system of the State of Rio de Janeiro, which will be under the purview of an Army general until December 2018. The measure must […]
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Sexual politics in February and early March 2018
Main global trends Another mass shooting in Parkland (Florida) shocked the US and the world. Research findings that gained visibility after the tragedy reveal that most perpetrators of mass shootings reported in the country are white males, of which a large percentage has had a history of alleged or convicted domestic abuse. Most importantly, this […]
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Pope Francis visit to Peru and Chile: a compilation
Sex Abuse Case Shadows Pope Francis’ Visit to Peru – The New York Times Pope Francis arrives in crisis-hit Peru – BBC News Why Pope Francis’s trip to Chile poses a challenge – BBC News Pope Francis meets sex abuse victims in Chile – BBC News Chile protesters challenge Pope on Church sex abuse – […]
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Abortion bill in Argentina in 2018
Argentine Women Demand Legalization of Abortion at Congress – TeleSur Argentine Protesters Demand Free, Legal and Safe Abortions – TeleSur Argentina president urges Congress to start abortion debate – ABC News Macri gives a green light to open the debate on abortion law reform – International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion Argentina President Urges […]
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The #MeToo reflections in the Global South
Sexual Harassment in the Academia – What the Hitlist Misses: Debaditya Bhattacharya and Rina Ramdev – Kafila #MeTooInChina Media Highlights – Feminism for China #MeToo With Chinese Characteristics – The Atlantic Universities respond to Raya Sarkar’s list of alleged sexual predators: Mostly silence, some denials – Scroll in The #MeToo movement marks the rise of […]
Read moreActivists launched a petition against the Indonesia’s Penal Code reform
“Reject RKUHP that Criminalizes Women, Children, Indigenous Peoples and Marginalized Groups” We are women, housewives, workers, students, students, activists, survivors of sexual violence who have great concerns about the criminalization of citizens’ privacy in discussions of RKUHP sections of ethics in Parliament. One is the article about adultery which extends the notion of adultery from […]
Read moreEvoking Teresita de Barbieri
Sonia Corrêa In late January 2018, three people departed whose voices, or better said whose writings, inhabit very special places in my memory and intellectual formation: the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra, the North- American writer Ursula Le Guin and the Uruguayan feminist Teresita de Barbieri. I have encountered them in scattered moments across in time […]
Read more“We lost Teresita De Barbieri!”
Remembering Teresita De Barbieri who passed away on January 21, 2018. By Ana Laura de Giorgi Uruguayan, feminist and academically committed. First exiled in Chile, then in Mexico, she was one of the firsts to contribute to the feminist thought from Latin America, when there was yet to “construct this new object of study […]
Read more2018 Women’s March
One year ago, in the preamble of March 8 when we celebrate International Women’s Day and women around the world historically articulate and promote strikes, thousands of women in the United States were protesting against Donald Trump taking over the White House as President-elect. The act was a landmark and, as activist argue, the feminist movement was able to keep momentum throughout 2017, […]
Read more#ReadOurSigns: on the ground from the L.A. Women’s March
Los Angeles, January 21st, 2018. By Magaly Marques The best part of a protest or demonstration is to witness the creativity with which people express their motives for being there: the signs! At yesterday’s Women’s Anniversary March in Los Angeles, we could see the difference between what motivated people in the 2017 Women’s March and what […]
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