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Sexual politics in April 2019

Highlights Algeria and Sudan: A revived Arab Spring? – Almost six years after the Arab Spring waned under the shadows of the Sissi regime, political upheavals revived in the Arab World. In Algeria, after six weeks of persistent demonstrations, President Bouteflika, in power since 1999, was forced to withdraw from reelection and then to resign, leaving […]

Sexual Politics in January and February 2019

#Hail International Women’s Day 2019: struggle, endurance, resistance! #Eyes on Brazil From an insider´s point of view, observing Brazilian politics after January 1st is like being caught in liquefier trying to make sense of the wind whirl turning one into pieces. SPW is planning a thorough assessment of the first 100 days of the new administration. For […]

Blunt pink-washing: The Trump administration wants to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide

The Trump administration is launching a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of nations where it’s still illegal to be gay. The main target is Iran (read the full article on NBC News). As soon as the announcement was made LGBTTI+ activists, organizations and scholars commented on the proposal and expressed […]

US Supreme Court grants abortion rights in Louisiana: news and analisys

Supreme Court Halts Closure of Abortion Clinics in Louisiana – Center for Reproductive Rights We Can Thank Kavanaugh for Roberts’ Decision to Temporarily Block Louisiana’s Anti-Abortion Law – Rewire Brett Kavanaugh shows true colours in supreme court abortion dissent – The Guardian A so-called victory shows how the Supreme Court will kill ‘Roe v. Wade’ […]

US Supreme Court’s ban on transgender people in the Army: news, analysis and unfolding

Supreme Court Allows Challenges to Trump’s Transgender Military Ban to Continue in Lower Courts – National Center for Lesbian Rights Supreme Court Declines Transgender Military Ban Cases; Permits Enforcement of Ban for Now – Lamdba Legal Trump’s Transgender Military Ban and Lessons from a Lifetime of Gender-Policing – New Yorker Britain’s 20 years of open […]

Sexual politics in October 2018

The Brazilian perfect storm We apologize for the delay in the circulation of SPW’s October 2018 monthly announcement due to the stormy process and result of the Brazilian presidential elections. We needed time to begin processing this outcome and to select relevant information that may contribute to a better understanding of this crucial turn of […]

What will be of US Supreme Court pending to the conservative?

Trump ‘Very Close’ to Supreme Court Decision, but May Wait Till Final Hours – The New York Times In Making His Second Supreme Court Pick, Trump Has a Model: His First – The New York Times Retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy Often the Man in the Middle – The New York Times Without Kennedy, the Future of Gay […]

Sexual politics in March and early April 2018

On March 14th, 2018, Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes were brutally assassinated in a shootout a week after Women’s International Day. Marielle was a black feminist lesbian and a Municipal Councilor in Rio de Janeiro. A member of PSOL (the Socialism and Freedom Party), she was elected by more than 45,000 votes and […]

Bowling for Parkland: US gun control debate sparked

On Wednesday, February 14, Parkland suffered a violent episode of mass shooting at the Stoneman Douglas High School depicted by 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, who was a school’s former student. Carrying a rifle AR-15, the incident caused seventeen people to die and left fifteen injured. However, this episode was the fourteenth mass shooting to happen in […]

Sexual politics in February and early March 2018

Main global trends Another mass shooting in Parkland (Florida) shocked the US and the world. Research findings that gained visibility after the tragedy reveal that most perpetrators of mass shootings reported in the country are white males, of which a large percentage has had a history of alleged or convicted domestic abuse. Most importantly, this […]

2018 Women’s March

One year ago, in the preamble of March 8 when we celebrate International Women’s Day and women around the world historically articulate and promote strikes, thousands of women in the United States were protesting against Donald Trump taking over the White House as President-elect. The act was a landmark and, as activist argue, the feminist movement was able to keep momentum throughout 2017, […]

#ReadOurSigns: on the ground from the L.A. Women’s March

Los Angeles, January 21st, 2018. By Magaly Marques The best part of a protest or demonstration is to witness the creativity with which people express their motives for being there: the signs! At yesterday’s Women’s Anniversary March in Los Angeles, we could see the difference between what motivated people in the 2017 Women’s March and what […]