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Social justice in the time of austerity: the promise(s) of Mia Mottley

by Roberta Clarke  On May 24th, Mia Mottley became Prime Minister of Barbados with her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) winning all thirty parliamentary seats. This obliteration of the opposing Democratic [...] Read more

The green tide

  Three Argentinean partners who work on gender, sexuality and abortion matters  generously share their views on key undercurrents of the process leading to the partial approval of the Voluntary [...] Read more

Abortion rights in Brazil: the institutional debate, international effects on the media

By Fábio Grotz and Sonia Corrêa A new chapter of the ongoing institutional debate on abortion rights in Brazil is scheduled for August 3rd and 6th,  as a public hearing [...] Read more

BBC expands the coverage of abortion in Brazil: but at what cost?

By Fábio Grotz Since early June, BBC Brazil — possibly with a view to feeding the national debate around ADPF 442/2017 or perhaps as a reflection of the victorious Irish [...] Read more

Gender and sexuality in the Colombia elections

  by Franklin Gil Hernandes Apparently, attacks on “gender ideology”, quite  central to the  2016 peace referendum, were peripheral in the 2018 Colombian presidential campaign. But to better grasp what [...] Read more

Assessing gender and sexuality politics in the Colombia elections

by Sandra Mazo Cardona An inside look from gender and sexuality on the circumstances that led to Duque’s victory in the Colombian presidential elections On June 17, 2018, Ivan Duque, [...] Read more

The globalisation of anti-gender campaigns

Transnational anti-gender movements in Europe and Latin America create unlikely alliances by Sonia Corrêa, David Patternote and Roman Kuhar This is a paper originally published in English in the International  [...] Read more

Gender Ideology: tracking its origins and meanings in current gender politics

by Sonia Corrêa In the first week of November 2017, Judith Butler was viciously attacked in Brazil by a heterogeneous group of actors who define themselves as anti-gender,[1] a regrettable episode caught the [...] Read more

Political mythology on abortion and trans men

Blas Radi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)[1]   The sexual and (non) reproductive health of trans men is a challenging issue. In the first place, because it is far from being [...] Read more

Exorcising a ghost: The Interests Behind The War On “Gender Ideology”

Author: Richard Miskolci Abstract: The persecution of philosopher Judith Butler during her visit to Brazil in late 2017 revealed the power of the ghost of the so-called “gender ideology”, a [...] Read more

A Cartography of Latin American Anti-Gender Frays

Since 2010’s political battles around gender have mushroomed globally involving a varied gamut of religious and secular forces. These frays became particularly frequent and vicious in Latin America, as illustrated [...] Read more

The Pope’s visit to Chile: the limits of the ‘Francis phenomenon’

  by José Manuel Morán Faúndes Things did not turn out as expected in Chile. Pope Francis, whose image as a charismatic leader sharply contrasts with of his predecessor Benedict XVI, [...] Read more

Argentina: abortion came out of the closet

By Victoria Pedrido On March 20, five draft bills to pass the Voluntary Pregnancy Termination law were debated by Commissions in Parliament. Of those, one that was forwarded by the [...] Read more

Can a subaltern speak?

Can a subaltern speak? No, is the response of the feminist philosopher Gayatri Spivak, when she realizes that to "have the right to a voice" the place of the subaltern [...] Read more

The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America

Authors: Gabriela Arguedas Ramírez and Lynn M. Morgan Reference: Feminist Studies 43, no. 2. 2017 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Download the article here. Read more
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