UN on COVID-19, discrimination and stigma
English COVID-19 fears should not be exploited to attack and exclude minorities – UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues “Unacceptable”: UN expert urges better protection of
The politics of Carnival
Despite passed 400 days of JMB’s ruling, Brazil’s carnival has shown the strength of popular festivities in producing laugh and scorn. Viradouro samba school was
India anti-muslims pogrom: news, analysis and condemnation
“The violence unleashed against Muslims in Delhi by armed Hindu mobs during President Donald Trump’s visit to India is a portent and a lesson. […] More than an echo of the past, the recent violence in Delhi is a lesson”. Read SPW’s compilation.
India: news and analysis on citizenship law unrest
India’s protests against citizenship law – Al Jazeera Why are so many Indians protesting against the citizenship law? – Al Jazeera As Protests Rage on
Three Cards and a Joker: Bolsonaro and the Marielle Case
By Isabela Kalil The Context On October 29, 2019, Jornal Nacional (the main Brazilian television newspaper, broadcast by Rede Globo) reported that the name of
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
“You’ll see me, therefore I exist”: black body and beauty
In the March issue of SPW’s Sexuality & Art, we feature the works of American black artist Mickalene Thomas. She invites us to decolonizing look
1 year since her death – Marielle has seeded across the globe
In Tokyo, Japan during the Women’s March Source: Elika Takimoto on Twitter In Brasilia Source: Mídia Ninja In Natal, RN Source: @jptrindaade on Twitter
Film Commentary Forum: Un Cuento Chino, China in the Global South, and Gender/Sexual Politics
Compiled and edited by Petrus Liu and Lisa Rofel. Originally published at The Center For Emerging Worlds (UC Santa Cruz). Available here. In recent years,
A meeting between Rosana Paulino and Belkis Ayón
In November 2015, on the trail of the “feminist occupations”, we published for the first time the work of the black painter Rosana Paulino, whose