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Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: July to December 2020

Editors’ Note We apologize to our readers and partners for the delay in making our last Special Issue on Sexual Politics in the Pandemic available. This delay was due to the unexpected compression of time that we have been experiencing in 2020, but also to cases of  COVID-19 within the ABIA/SPW team as well as […]

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Brief note on the politology of a Catholic discourse

by Massimo Prearo* That words such as “revolution”, “change” or “turn” can be attributed to a religious institution like the Catholic Church, or to the words of a pope, says a lot, in my opinion, about the difficulty of placing the politics of gender, sexuality and family in a long-term perspective. This is especially the […]

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Pedophilia, moral panic and abortion rights in Latin America and Brazil

            After six months into the pandemic, a striking feature of the condition under which we are working is that time has not expanded, as initially many of us had predicted, but rather shrank. Although we are fixed in one place, the complete virtualization of work and sociability has triggered […]

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The case of the girl from Espírito Santo: Is this a new turning point in the long journey for abortion rights in Brazil?

by Sonia Corrêa Since 1940, Brazilian law has permitted abortion in cases of rape,  and sexual intercourse with persons under 14 years old is automatically  defined as rape. In 1999, the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s issued the Technical Protocol orienting Care for Victims of Sexual Violence (MoH Protocol),  considered by WHO as a main global […]

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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil – 2018 Presidential elections

Rafael Evangelista Laboratory of Advanced Studies on Journalism (Labjor), State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, rae@unicamp.br Fernanda Bruno Communication and culture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil Published on 31 Dec 2019 | DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1434   Abstract In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, despite his radical rhetoric […]

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The Lancet HIV highlights threats the Brazilian response to the epidemic faces

Due to a historically progressive human-rights based approach to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, Brazil has globally been deemed an important standard-bearer of the HIV/AIDS response – however, given the growing influence of conservativism in the country, Brazil’s continued status as an HIV/AIDS leader remains uncertain. As HIV infections alarmingly increase in marginalized populations across the […]

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Mapping of bills against “gender ideology” in Brazil’s Parliament

At present, 15 bills related to “gender ideology” are being processed in the Parliament. Eight of them were presented in the first half of 2019, three in 2018, two in 2016 and two in 2015. The bills presented in Congress in 2019 proposed the criminalization of those who promote”gender ideology”, especially in schools, proposing amendments […]

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The Chilean Catholic Church and its crisis

by Jaime Barrientos Chile began 2018 with a visit from Pope Francis. The country still remembered the one paid by John Paul II who, in the midst of the military period, convoked thousands of people to the streets across the country, who answered his call to receive the pontiff. However, in 2018, things would be […]

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A new chapter in the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal: a compilation

After the Pennsylvania Report release Faithful Catholics Respond After Abuse Scandals: Commitments to Change and Belief in Pope Francis – The New York Times Why Changes in Reporting Won’t Fix the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Problem – Rewire Visit to Ireland Pope to Visit Ireland, Where Scars of Sex Abuse Are ‘Worse Than the I.R.A.’ – […]

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