Cass report: compilation
What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence – Ruth Pearce American Academy of Pediatrics’ response to Dr. Cass NY Times’
COVID-19 and differential mortality: race, ethnicity and caste
What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths? – New York Times India’s coronavirus pandemic shines a light on the curse of caste –
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 –
2019 European election: news and analisys
The Resentful and the Damned – Jacobin The Dangers of Detoxification – Jacobin Nigel Farage’s Populist Brexit Party Wins Big in European Parliament Elections –
Report LGBT in Britain: Hate Crime and Discrimination
Stonewall’s new report LGBT in Britain: Hate Crime and Discrimination is out now and reveals high levels of hate crime and discrimination in the
LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts
This article presents the first sustained social analysis of the Kaleidoscope Trust, the UK’s leading social movement organization on LGBTI issues internationally, and its engagement
Making transgender murder victims visible
Text by Stephen Wood, Lukas Berredo and Carla LaGata published at Institute of Development Studies on Nov 18, 2016. Available here. In the three months following the
London’s Romanian Sex Workers Are Worried That Brexit Would Screw Them
Against the backdrop of the EU referendum campaign, London-based Romanian women sex workers are using EU law to challenge the police and fight for their rights. Under Operation Nexus, the Met are monitoring Romanian sex workers, rounding them up and ordering them to leave the country because they claim that sex work doesn’t count as legitimate employment.
The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade
Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London’s epicentre of erotica and smut.
Why I stormed the Tate Modern in protest against violent men
On 13 June over 150 feminist activists mourned the murder and erasure of artist Ana Mendieta. We were there for our sisters who did not survive.
RESURJ – monthly bulletin on sexual and reproductive, environmental and economic justice worldwide
Every month RESURJ – a global alliance of feminists – members share and reflect on some news highlights affecting sexual and reproductive, environmental and economic
The First British Surgeon to Perform a Successful C-Section Was a Woman Disguised as a Man
Originally published on Today I Found Out in November, 2013. Available at http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/first-british-surgeon-perform-successful-c-section-woman-disguised-man/ Today I found out that James Barry, the first British surgeon to
Sex Work Digest – Issue 13
The 13th issue of NSWP’s quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’ covers the period July – September 2015. Features in this issue include: Decriminalisation updates from
London: Launch of the Global Sex Work Law Map
Tuesday 15 September 2015 16:00 to 18:00 Westminster Kingsway College, Soho Centre, Peter Street, London Register to attend The interaction of law and poverty is
Porn. Panic. Ban.
Originally from GenderIT.org by Bishakha Datta I’m convinced we’re having the wrong conversation around digital porn. Late last year, the British government banned a bunch
Battle over the unborn: “Anti-abortion protester showed me foetus doll”
Originally published on Belfast Telegraph on 14/03/2015. Available at: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/battle-over-the-unborn-antiabortion-protester-showed-me-foetus-doll-31066577.html BY PATRICIA DEVLIN – 14 MARCH 2015 Followed down the street and told my unborn
Why I’m Disturbed by Screening for Intersex Traits in Utero
Originally posted on Rewire on 11/03/2015. Available at: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/03/11/im-disturbed-screening-intersex-traits-utero/ by Claudia Astorino March 11, 2015 – 1:20 pm As an avid proponent of reproductive rights,
SPW Newsletter N.11 – March, 2012
Starting with the issue No. 11, SPW Newsletters no longer provide detailed links to posted material, as they will have already been circulated through the announcements of new website postings. The newsletter will mainly focus on one or two pieces of substantive analysis addressing one key debate and, eventually, one key event that we consider to be have been critical in the global sexual politics landscape in the period immediately preceding the publication. Partners and collaborators are invited to share their views on these topics and the Newsletter No 11 is devoted to two key topics: the ongoing debate around the validity of aid conditionality as an instrument to protect LGBT rights and the current state of affairs of abortion reform in Uruguay. Good reading!