TAG: religious discourses

Sexual politics in June 2018

Main global trends ICD Reform – On June 18, the Working Group set up by the World Health Organization (WHO), has released the final version of the International Classification Diseases 11 (ICD 11). These parameters have been under review since 2011 and the outcome of this long process means an important victory for transnational trans rights […]

The green tide

Three Argentinean partners who work on gender, sexuality and abortion matters generously share their views on key undercurrents of the process leading to the partial approval of the Voluntary Interruption Law (LIV) by the House of Representatives on June 14th and explore what may come next. Malu Moreno In a very moving way, great […]

Opposing reactions to abortion in Argentina and Ireland

Pope Calls Abortion ‘White Glove’ Equivalent of Nazi Crimes – The New York Times Argentina’s top bishop says abortion is ‘not a right, but a tragedy’ – Crux Now Argentina Bishops: Abortion Vote Shows We Have Work to Do – National Catholic Register In Pope’s Argentina, bishops gear up to fight permissive abortion bill – Crux […]

Abortion rights in Brazil: the institutional debate, international effects on the media

By Fábio Grotz and Sonia Corrêa A new chapter of the ongoing institutional debate on abortion rights in Brazil is scheduled for August 3rd and 6th, as a public hearing has been convened by Judge Rosa Weber of the Supreme Court (STF) to discuss ADPF 442/2017 , presented to the March 2017 by the feminist […]

Assessing gender and sexuality politics in the Colombia elections

by Sandra Mazo Cardona An inside look from gender and sexuality on the circumstances that led to Duque’s victory in the Colombian presidential elections On June 17, 2018, Ivan Duque, Centro Democrático’s (Democratic Center in English) candidate won the presidential elections in Colombia with 54 percent of votes. The second term election was sharply polarized […]

Puta Dei goes international in 2018: US events and news

New York’s Sex Workers rally to take back International Whores Day: ‘Let us survive’ – The Daily Beast Puta Dei in NYC and New Jersey – Best Practices Policy Sick of going to jail: the roots of Puta Dei – NoHumanInvolvedFilme Performance ‘Whore in a box’ – NoHumanInvolvedFilme What Is International Whore’s Day? Sex Workers Are […]

Abortion Frontlines: the Latin American Context – Professor Sonia Corrêa and Professor Emily Jackson

The globalisation of anti-gender campaigns

Transnational anti-gender movements in Europe and Latin America create unlikely alliances by Sonia Corrêa, David Patternote and Roman Kuhar This is a paper originally published in English in the International Politics and Society (IPS) webiste and subsequently re-published in Spanish by Open Democracy. To read it click here.

Sonia Corrêa’s Talk at the Gender Threat(ened) Colloquium (UERJ, 2017)

Watch Sonia Corrêa’s speech ‘Gender Ideology: tracking its origins and meanings in current gender politics’ at the Gender Threat(ened) conference in Rio de Janeiro’s State University on October, 2017 with English subtitles. * activate English subtitles on the settings icon.

Sexual politics in May 2018

Nicaragua: SPW calls attention to the violent political crisis sweeping through this small Central American country and expresses its solidarity with the Nicaraguan society that continues to resist the brutal violence perpetrated by the Ortega–Murillo regime. The deep and brutal political crisis that began in April, has not gained the deserved visibility amongst progressive sectors or […]

Nicaragua: The violent Ortega administration

Español Articles in the news Informe preliminar CIDH, documenta el uso desproporcionado de la fuerza durante las manifestaciones de abril 2018, en Nicaragua – Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos La caída de las “arbolatas” de Ortega en Nicaragua – El País Nicaragua – El País Nicaragua: dos meses de protestas y más de […]

Gender Ideology: tracking its origins and meanings in current gender politics

by Sonia Corrêa In the first week of November 2017, Judith Butler was viciously attacked in Brazil by a heterogeneous group of actors who define themselves as anti-gender,[1] a regrettable episode caught the attention of both the media and international and global North academics. This well-orchestrated political formation is not new and much less peculiarly Brazilian. As analysed […]