Around the world
Since its launching, in 2006, the Sexuality Policy Watch website has circulated relevant information on sexual politics trends, events and actors around the world. This investment has resulted in a rich archive of global and national sexual politics.
One main feature of this database is that it is not confined to specific areas or issues. It encompasses information on abortion, sexual and reproductive rights, sex work, sexual violence, gender and women’s rights, HIV and AIDs; and emphasizes materials and analysis that contribute to locate these issues in relation to the political economy of sexuality. Since 2013, key facts, events and trends are selected and highlighted in monthly announcements.
Article “The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights”
Published at Review of International Studies (RIS) Download it here.
Read moreSpain’s new government: compilation
At highly charged session, Spain’s PM justifies amnesty as only way to stop the far right – El País Spain: The investiture of the amnesty – El País Spain’s socialists reach controversial deal with Catalan separatists for government backing – Euronews Why Spain’s acting leader is offering a politically explosive amnesty for Catalan separatists – […]
Read moreNiger coup: compilation
Niger coup: What is Russia’s role? – DW Russia uses social media channels to exploit Niger coup – The Guardian Prigozhin celebrates Niger coup, says his Wagner group can help – CNN Soldiers in Niger claim president is ousted in coup – Washington Post Soldiers in Niger claim to have overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum – […]
Read moreMilei’s victory in Argentina: news and analysis (compilation)
Run-off The Free-Market Fundamentalism of Argentina’s Javier Milei – New Yorker Why these Argentines voted for Javier Milei – BBC Argentina’s new leader is a snake-oil salesman with extreme views on abortion, gay rights and more. I fear for my country – The Guardian ‘From horrible to merely bad’: will Javier Milei take his chainsaw […]
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Sexual Politics from July to November 2023
>> Download and read in PDF << First Words This edition of the SPW newsletter covers the main events in sexual politics since July, roughly the second half of 2023. As we have pointed out in previous editions, especially since the pandemic, the sexual politics of the 21st century is indelibly intertwined with the de-democratizing […]
Read moreFrom My Body to Yours, and Gaza to the World – Zillah Eisenstein
A Meditation on Death, Killing, and Possibility I knew my body was healing from the surgery when I found myself ready to engage with the world and posted on Facebook: I am always anti-zionist. And never an antisemite. And always an anti-racist feminist against misogynist wars. And then a few days later I posted: Zionist […]
Read moreIn conversation with Ros Petchesky, a feminist, Jewish voice for peace
by Françoise Girard On November 13, 2023, in New York City, I had the privilege of interviewing the brilliant Rosalind P. Petchesky, professor emerita of political science at Hunter College and renowned and beloved feminist activist and thinker. Ros and I first met in 1999 at the UN in New York City, during diplomatic negotiations […]
Read morePolish Election: democratic opposition’s victory – compilation (English and Portuguese)
English Momentous Shift Looms for Poland as Governing Party Looks Set to Be Ousted – NY Times ‘Emotional and proud’: Voters on Poland’s landmark election results – The Guardian As Europe applauds Poland’s election results, civil rights groups prepare to fight – NPR Poland Shows That Autocracy Is Not Inevitable – The Atlantic How Poland’s […]
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Sonia Corrêa interview at SDGSummit2030: September 2023
Feminist Voices at #SDGSummit2030 on “Speak out against anti-gender and anti-rights narratives and actions to achieve the 2030 Agenda” with Sonia Correa, Co-Coordinator, Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), Brazil. Hosted by Dr. Racheal Misan-Ruppee. Watch below: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3490677294488395
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Rita and Tina as Parts of Me
By Sonia Corrêa I took many meanders before writing this brief note about the enchantment – as the Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa described death – of the singers Rita Lee and Tina Turner. I am not writing about them, these admirable artists, generous persons, phoenix women who have remade their lives many times as […]
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Sexual Politics from February to July 2023
>>> Read/download in PDF <<< Opening Words This newsletter describes and seeks to contextualize the developments in sexual politics since February 2023. In times of democratic deterioration around the world, sexual politics, our object of analysis, inevitably finds itself entangled in authoritarian shifts. The pervasive effects of de-democratization are palpable in anti-gender political dynamics and […]
Read moreDobbs, one year: compilation of 2022’s Scotus ruling against abortion right
One Year, 61 Clinics: How Dobbs Changed the Abortion Landscape – NY Times The Hell of Providing Health Care in a Post-Dobbs America – Mother Jones A year after fall of Roe v. Wade, 25 million women live in states with abortion bans or restrictions – PBS The Anti-Abortion Movement Gets a Dose of Post-Roe […]
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Anti-trans attacks in sports: a necessary update
By Nana Soares. In July 2022, we published an article echoing and contextualising the guidelines then adopted by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) regarding the participation of trans women in their competitions. As we highlight in the article, gender policing in sports is not a new debate, but it is one that has intensified and taken on new forms in recent years.
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Senegal unrest: news and analysis
Senegal’s Macky Sall rules out third term after deadly protests – AlJazeera The sexual assault case behind Senegal’s unrest – AlJazeera Senegalese women fear rights setback over Sonko rape trial – AlJazeera Senegal, one of Africa’s bastions of stability, faces its gravest threat of unrest in decades – CNBC Senegal: Presidency accuses opposition of ‘destabilizing […]
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Anti-trans drive in US: compilation of 2023 so far (English and Portuguese)
Maping and tracking Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures – American Civil Liberties Union 2023 anti-trans bills tracker – Trans Legislation Tracker Analysis and statements Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country – Mother Jones Anti-Trans Legislation Is Becoming a National Security Issue – The […]
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