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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 our main topic, but that did not prove to be the case. The pandemic followed its devastating course with the emergence of new, more aggressive variants, and the loss of […]

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COVID-19, economy and inequality: compilation (March – June)

MAY / JUNE Precarity in Times of Pandemic:Covid-19 and the crisis in India’s informal labor markets – Bot Populi Pandemic Meets Precarity: The Case of Platform Delivery Work in Latin America – Bot Populi When Barnes and Noble Warehouse Workers Got Sick, They Organized and Won – Truthout Corporations Will Seize Opportunities to Profit From […]

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Planetary Utopias with Angela Davis, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Nikita Dhawan

This conversation was recorded on Sunday 24 June 2018 as part of the closing plenary of the symposium ‘Planetary Utopias: Hope, Desire and Imaginaries in a Postcolonial World’ (curated by Nikita Dhawan) in the ‘Colonial Repercussions’ event series at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. It was transcribed by Anna Millan and has been revised for […]

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“You’ll see me, therefore I exist”: black body and beauty

In the March issue of SPW’s Sexuality & Art, we feature the works of American black artist Mickalene Thomas. She invites us to decolonizing look into traditional paintings by pooting the black female bodys and their subjectivities literally at the center of her work. In 1955, Emmett Till, a black child, was pistol-whipped, beaten, and […]

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How the LGBT Community Can Fight Back Against Trump

After every major LGBT rights group in America campaigned in support of Donald Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton, it came as little surprise that Trump won just 14 percent of the LGBT vote on November 8. Yet, one of Trump’s most vocal and controversial cheerleaders has been a gay man, political provocateur and Breibart News writer […]

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Sexual Politics Round-up in 2016

As 2017 begins, SPW highlights the main events and trends as well as tensions and challenges traversing sexual politics worldwide. January In January, the Zika virus epidemics stormed the headlines, as Brazilian babies affected by Zika congenital syndrome prompted a global alarm. Even though Zika had been previously detected in other countries, the Brazilian epidemic […]

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Intersections and continuums in reproductive justice

Within South Africa, more than 20 years post democracy, the legal provisions on reproductive health and sexual orientation have been recognisable gains. It is a challenge though that these legal rights are not well realised and the struggles of many girls, young women and gender queer people remain unrealised in reproductive justice.

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Brazilian state violence: one more episode

Luana Barbosa dos Reis Santos was brutally killed by Brazilian cops in the city of Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo) in early April. She was taking her son to a computer class in a motorcycle when three officers stopped her to check if, according to the police, the vehicle had been robbed. The scene was not […]

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Zanele Muholi: From SPW Newsletter nº 8 to New York Times

In SPW Newsletter nº8 (2010), we higlighted Zanele Muholi’s artwork about queer identities in South Africa. By that time, the Minister of Arts and Culture slashed a piece of art featuring lesbian black couples as “immoral” and “pornographic . Five years later, Muholi’s work is under spot on New York Times’s website. Click here to read […]

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Circassian beauties and the ugly face of race

The curious case of Rachel Dolezal and the Circassian ladies of yore show just how meaningless the notion of race is. Read Al Jazeera’s article.

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Caitlin Jenner and Rachel Dolezal: The conceptual and political challenges undergirding the contrast between transexuality and transraciality

In the first week of June 2015, two articles have reached us that spoke to the unabated tensions – and perhaps unresolvable – tensions between those streams of feminism that deny the validity and ‘authenticity’ of female transgender identities and experiences.

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The Murder of Black Youth Is a Reproductive Justice Issue

If you have followed the aftermath of the August 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, then you have most likely seen the image of his stepfather holding a makeshift cardboard sign that reads, “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!” You have likely seen the photo of Brown’s mother staring into the camera, her husband […]

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