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Sexual Politics in 2022: Retrospective

>> Read in PDF << First words In 2022, we adjusted our perspective for monitoring and analyzing sexual politics. In the previous two years, our editorial focus had been the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. As the dramatic and brutally lethal epidemiological scenarios have abated, we have refocused on the national and transnational dynamics of […]

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. After two years of health crisis and after brutal and repeated spikes of mortality spread over several regions and countries, the pandemic is finally ebbing thanks to the immunization achieved […]

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 […]

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 and can be read separately.

Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: January-July 2021

First Words In the last 2020 edition of Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic Special of 2020, we hypothesized that throughout 2021, with the arrival of vaccines, COVID-19 might no longer be our main topic. However, this has not been the case. Since then, south of the equator, infections have continued running their course and […]

Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: May and June 2020

The global scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed since April, but the crisis is still far from over. Only eight countries are listed as having beaten the virus: Iceland, Jordan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Uruguay, and Vietnam. Transmission curves appear to be decreasing in the more drastically affected countries of Europe. Meanwhile, the […]

Sexual politics in times of pandemic

March and early April 2020 It has been very challenging to prepare the SPW announcement for March/April 2020 due to the abnormality, risks, and losses caused by the dizzying spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this troubled context, we thought that it was not sufficient to compile and organize, in our usual categories, the substantial […]

The Prostitute, the Virus, and the City

Prostitution Policy Watch, IPPUR, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Authors: Soraya Silveira Simões, Laura Murray, Patrícia de Moura e Silva Toledo, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Ana Paula Silva More than three decades ago, when HIV erupted around the world and AIDS was defined as a “syndrome” (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), the epidemic was classified as […]

Putas Against COVID-19 in Brazil

Prostitution is recognized as a profession by the Ministry of Labor in Brazil. It is a foundational economy for thousands of families and red light districts in the country. Sex workers, like the majority of autonomous workers, have seen their possibilities for income all but disappear with the coronavirus pandemic. Organizations supporting sex workers in […]

COVID-19 and sex work: compilation (March – June)

March – April The fragile existence of sex workers during the pandemic – New Yorker Can the world’s oldest profession survive the age of social distancing? – CNN Sex workers abandoned as Covid-19 crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts – Mail & Guardian COVID-19 shines a red light on sex workers’ lack of protection in Europe […]

Covid-19 and human rights: news and analisys (In English, Portuguese and Spanish)

Abortion Your Questions About Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Answered – Rewire Abortion and COVID-19: why we need to support women’s right to abortion in health emergencies – LSE Delaying ‘nonessential’ abortions during coronavirus crisis endangers women’s health and financial future – The Conversation COVID-19 Could Bring the End of ‘Roe v. Wade’ – […]

Sexual politics in January and February 2020

Anti- gender politics in Latin America – SPW is pleased to announce the collection Anti-gender Politics in Latin America, which encompasses nine case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay, a regional study on the effects of anti-gender frays on debates of the Organization of American States, and an […]