TAG: feminism

Brazil: New president of the House opens the road for anti-abortion provisions

by Thais Rodrigues and Edson Sardinha* Brazilian conservative and extreme -right parlimentarians are planing to take advantage of the new presidency of the House, MP Arthur Lira (from the Partido Progressista) to push through with their anti-abortion propositions, which had been shelved by the former president, MP Rodrigo Maia (Democratas). Having been supported in his […]

#NoTenemosMinistra: The crisis in Chile’s Ministry of Women and Gender Equality

by Bárbara Sepúlveda Hales & Lieta Vivaldi Macho The recent appointment of the new Minister of Women and Gender Equality, Macarena Santelices, by President Sebastián Piñera is very worrying and this has been expressed not only by feminist organizations but also by politicians and activists from different sectors. After 54 days without an incumbent […]

Planetary Utopias with Angela Davis, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Nikita Dhawan

This conversation was recorded on Sunday 24 June 2018 as part of the closing plenary of the symposium ‘Planetary Utopias: Hope, Desire and Imaginaries in a Postcolonial World’ (curated by Nikita Dhawan) in the ‘Colonial Repercussions’ event series at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. It was transcribed by Anna Millan and has been revised for […]

Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality: A Minister Who Does Not Play Around

by Rajnia de Vito and Marco Aurélio Prado In a political scene that is thoroughly saturated with sex and gender tropes and memes, Damares Alves, head of the new Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, is an icon and spokesperson for the new government’s sexual politics.[i] “Terribly Christian”, as she called herself on January […]

Festival ‘For Women’s Lives’ gathered feminists across the country

by Angela Freitas Feminists, networks and organizations engaged in the struggle for the right to abortion in Brazil had two months to prepare a mobilization and communication strategy around the Supreme Court public hearing on ADPF 442 on August 3 and 6. This way, the campaign #NeitherKilledNorJailed was thought of, to resound on social media […]

#MeToo and the Ronell case: opinions and analysis

I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser. – The Chronicle of Higher Education Another professor backs off earlier defense of feminist prof who sexually harassed student – The College Fix Avital Ronell and the End of the Academic Star – The Chronicle of Higher Education Dialing: Back: Darkness – Theory Illuminati What Are We […]