TAG: sexual politics

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 […]

Biopolitics and coronavirus: compilation

THE LEPER v. THE PLAGUE The Biopolitics of Immunity in Times of COVID-19: An Interview with Roberto Esposito – Antipode Online Giorgio Agamben: The Plague was Already Present – Critical Legal Thinking Understanding the Coronavirus epidemics with Foucault? – Foucault Blog – University of Zulrich Panagiotis Sotiris – Against Agamben: Is a democratic biopolitics possible? […]

India and coronavirus: news and analysis (March – June)

Delhi Progrom Victims Getting No Treatment Due to COVID-19 – National Herald FIR against Scroll’s Supriya Sharma for story on Varanasi woman’s lockdown ‘misery’ – The Print The World’s Biggest Lockdown – ABC ‘My angel’: man who became face of India’s stranded helped home by stranger – The Guardian How Modi turned Covid-19 into a […]

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: Conservative religious actors

MAY / JUNE Contesting science and misinformation Ofcom: Christian TV network aired Covid-19 conspiracies – The Guardian Nigerian pastor spread covid-19 conspiracies and disinformation – Global Voices Two-thirds of US believers see Covid-19 as message from God, poll finds – The Guardian Tensions over closing cults Donald Trump orders governors to allow places of worship […]

COVID-19 and LGBTQI rights: compilation (March – June)

MAY / JUNE LGBTQ Inequality and Vulnerability in the Pandemic – HRW LGBT: Covid-19 forced me back home where I’m ‘unwanted’ – BBC LGBT Nonprofits struggle and adapt to new realities – bear Asia India The Modi Govt’s Handling of the Trans Rights Bill is Transphobia in Action – The Wire Halt Implementation of the […]

COVID-19 and human rights: compilation (April and May uptade)

Politics in the Time of Corona: Anti-Asian Racism: A Feature of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya Complaints of racism mar China’s coronavirus response – Al Jazeera COVID-19 updates – IDS Respect Rights in COVID-19 Response – Human Rights Watch Governments Should Respect Rights in COVID-19 Surveillance […]

COVID-19, gender, feminism and women’s rights: compilation (April and May update)

Navigating the Heteronormative Household: Rabenmutter, Racism and Covid-19 – Feminist Review ‘Calamitous’: domestic violence set to soar by 20% during global lockdown – The Guardian For Arab women and girls, the crisis is just beginning – Al Jazeera ‘For the lives of our mothers’: Covid-19 sparks fight for maids’ rights in Brazil – The Guardian […]

COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS: compilation (April and May update)

HIV/Aids What Lessons Does the AIDS Crisis Offer for the Coronavirus Pandemic? – Masha Gessen – The New Yorker Larry Kramer had the courage to act on his fear – The New Yorker No medicine, no food: Coronavirus restrictions amplify health risks to LGBT+ people with HIVhe life-saving treatment they need – Openly News SARS-CoV-2 […]

COVID-19, media and (dis)information: compilation

MAY / JUNE English Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East – Global Voices Nearly half of all tweets on coronavirus likely came from a bot, study says – Truth Out Despite Battling COVID Misinformation, Community Radio News Still Seen as ‘Security Threat’ – The Wire Portuguese Pressão de militares após recordes de […]

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 […]

“Our Atlas of Hate Denounces Anti-LGBT Polish Municipalities”

For some time now, many Polish municipalities, provinces and regions have been approving a series of resolutions which, more or less explicitly, aim to target and exclude the country’s sexual minorities: to inform about the situation and to make world public opinion aware of the problem’s extension, Jakub Gawron created, with the help of other […]