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 new anti-trans women rules in elite sports: the new face of an old ‘problem’
By Nana Soares The International Swimming Federation (FINA) announced at the World Championship, held in June in Budapest, a new technical-medical rule to regulate the
Pride parades: the current target of anti-LGBT forces
If the LGBT+ population is already under attack in the legal and policy realms, this year we have observed a new and worrying trend: the

Attacks against 2022 pride events: a compilation on a worrying trend (English and Portuguese)
English Pride Month in Turkey Showcased Homophobia, Resistance – Human Rights Watch This could be one of the most dangerous Pride months ever – openDemocracy

Anti-trans drive in sports: compilation (English, Spanish and Portuguese)
English As elite sports think again about trans participation, our only demand is for fairness – The Guardian International Federations’ bans targeting trans and intersex
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.
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

Brazil as a hub of anti-gender transnational politics (August – October 2021)
By Sonia Corrêa In September, Pope Francis visited Hungary and Slovakia, and in the latter country, in a conversation with a group of Jesuits, he
Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: August-October 2021
Since July, when we published our last Special Edition, as you will see in this issue, a lot has happened in the pandemic and in the field of sexual politics. Once again, the pages that follow are quite dense, but we remind you that the sections are relatively autonomous.
An interview with Massimo Prearo: The Zan Law failure, the neo – Catholic movement and Vatican’s Politics:
In the last Special Issue of last year we did a brief assessment of Vatican politics. Concomitantly, we published an article by the Italian political