Brazil is accused at the UN of violations of the right to legal abortion
Originally from Jamil Chade,UOL columnist in Geneva. Translation to English by Giulia de Vito ______________________ Civil society organisations have appealed to the United Nations, asking international
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
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 –
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
Sexual Politics in 2022: Retrospective
>> Read in PDF << First words In 2022, we adjusted our perspective for monitoring and analyzing sexual politics. In the previous two years, our
Brazil’s “Infamous Sunday” – Compilation of analysis about the January 8th attacks in Brasilia
As Brazil was stunned by January 8th storming rioters against the buildings of Federal Administration, Congress and Supreme Court, we collected analysis to better understand the roots, circumstances and outcomes of the “infamous Sunday”.
Sexual Politics from August to November 2022
>> Download as PDF << Preface Due to its relevance in Brazil and the rest of the world, we rescheduled the publication of our newsletter
Uýra Sodom’s organised revolt
By Sonia Corrêa Uýra Sodoma is a non-binary Amazonian performance artist. She is intersectional in every sense. In one of her multiple layers, Uýra is
Brief notes on the 2022 Brazilian elections (for those who don’t live in Brazil)
By Sonia Corrêa. These notes on the end of the Bolsonaro government are brief and very preliminary. As I was writing I was just adjusting to the atmosphere that started to be installed in Brazil on Sunday. To be more precise, last night when it became clear that, despite a cowardly and deplorable statement and last-minute coup attempts, we began a new political cycle. I will start sharing my sentiments and not objective information. My feeling today November 2nd 2022 is very different from the one that seized me, in 2018, when, in the wake of the astonishing electoral process that elected Bolsonaro to the presidency, I was overtaken by a productive anger. It made me immediately sit down and write an essay that, inspired an article by Celso Rocha Barros published that same day, I have titled “Brazilian Elections: Perfect Catastrophe?”
The girl from Santa Catarina: another brutal attack against the right to legal abortion in Brazil
The case of the 11-year-old girl raped and barred by a female judge from having a legal abortion in Santa Catarina had wide repercussions in