TAG: sexual identity

Trump’s victory: a preliminary cartography

From the SPW perspective, Trump arrival to power is just another chapter in a chain of conservative restorations sweeping world politics in recent years of which the demise of the Arab spring in vortex of wars and dictatorship followed by the 2014 election of the BJP in India can be eventually considered the starting points.

Nigeria: Harsh Law’s Severe Impact on LGBT Community

(Banjul) – Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, 2013 (SSMPA) has made a bad situation much worse for Nigeria’s beleaguered lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The law has led to an increase in extortion and violence against LGBT people and imposed restrictions on nongovernmental […]

Sex, gender and far right’s global attack

In fact, “gender ideology” is an invention of the right. It’s a hodgepodge of disparate ideas developed by a diverse group of thinkers over the past 50 years, linked mainly in the minds of its opponents. It doesn’t really exist beyond its creators’ manifestos and protest banners, but it’s already helped them score some very real victories.

Intersex and Trans days: news, articles and campaigns

To celebrate both International Day of Action for Trans Depathologisation (22 October) and Intersex Awareness Day (26 October), SPW shares articles, news and campaigns aimed at highlighting challenges and struggles endured by intesex and trans people amidst several forms of biomedical controls and social stigma undermining their dignity, autonomy and welfare. Making It True – Global […]

Call for Papers: Gender and New Wars

This workshop will bring together key scholars working across different disciplines in order to examine how gender is constructed in new wars and the consequences and/or advantages of new gender relations. It seeks to bring together emerging work on the formation, contestation and transformation of gender relations in new wars.

Partner for Law in Development’s newsletter

Here is the latest edition (Vol. 9 (IV) July- August 2016) of our bi-monthly newsletter – covering significant UN updates, international events, national judgments and policy related developments relating to gender, sexuality and culture that took place in the months of July and August.

Decolonising psychology creates possibilities for social change

Psychologists drew historically from theories of social Darwinism and eugenics to espouse the hierarchical categorisation of people into race groups. African people were posited as the least human of all.

LGBTI Rights in Turkey and Recommendations

The book, Situation of LGBTI Rights in Turkey and Recommendations, including the articles of six experts major in different disciplines is now transferred to digital media. Those academicians who are parts of the advisory committee of “Awareness Project”as well, try to discuss the LGBTI rights from the different perspectives. Photo: Sevra Nihal Unal Kaos GL’s […]

The Sexual Politics in September and early October 2016

Last month a large number of events took place across the globe to mark September 28th as the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal abortion. Of particular relevance was the massive women’s strike in Poland to protest against a new bill aimed at completely banning abortion. Its immediate effect was the […]

Did an Anti-LGBT Panic Help Defeat Colombia’s Peace Deal?

When thousands of Colombians protested on August 10 to demand the resignation of the country’s openly gay education minister, few saw any greater political significance. But as the world struggles to understand why Colombians voted “No” on Sunday to a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group, the seemingly unrelated […]

The Contradictions, Resilience, and Creativity of Black Feminism in South Africa

by Maneo Mohale Published on September 19, 2016 at 9:58am Maneo Mohale is the 2016 Bitch Media Writing Fellow in Global Feminism. “Just because we’re magic does not mean we’re not real.” – Jesse Williams On a chilly Johannesburg morning, I scroll through my Twitter timeline, searching for magic. Not the kind rising from the […]

To build feminist futures, suspend judgment!

As feminist thinkers and activists, we must tackle not only the systemic discrimination embedded in the world outside, but the often unconscious or invisible biases that we ourselves have internalized. Part 1. The booth from which CREA’s Suspend Judgment was launched at the 13th Annual AWID Forum in Bahia, Brazil. September 8 – 11, […]