TAG: sexual identity

RHM’s new issue: Disability and sexuality: claiming sexual and reproductive rights

Reproductive Health Matters is pleased to publish its 50th journal issue! Over the past 25 years, RHM has supported new thinking about sexual and reproductive health and rights and it continues to challenge hegemonic assumptions about sexuality and reproduction. This issue includes research, personal experiences and critical analyses that address the current situation and future […]

Rights at risk

The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs) has launched its first report, Rights at Risk. The report maps a complex global anti-rights lobby targeting various international fora, making connections with national-level agendas, and building increasing alliances across region, religious affiliation, and issues. It reveals an array of evolving strategies and shrewd arguments being used […]

Sexual politics in June 2017

June is LGBTIQ Pride month worldwide. This SPW brief highlights events around the world, prioritizing parades and other demonstrations that are not captured by mainstream radars. In that regard, we also recommend the readers who read Spanish to peruse the new blog Orgullos Críticos which examines trends and traps implied in the growing normalization and pinkwashing of pride parades

Sexual politics in Ecuador in the 2000’s: a bird’s eye view

By María Amelia Viteri and Gabriel Ocampo. Homosexuality was criminalized in Ecuador until November, 1997[1]. As a result, until then, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons were considered criminals, could face imprisonment and were often tortured and even killed.

Queer Asia 2017 – Conference Review

By Matthew Waites. The Queer Asia conference has emerged as one of the most fresh and ground breaking conference events in global queer studies. The event is held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, yet the organising team nevertheless managed to bring together presentations

The mountain delivered a pope

By João Manuel de Oliveira. The legend says that Portugal is a conservative country with a supposedly glorious past, whenever colonization and its engagement with the slave traffic eliminated from the equation. It is also described as a profoundly religious country, deeply marked by the influence of endemic Catholicism. Sociologists, using an equation

Erotics of the Leader – Calling Queers with creative juices and a political edge

Calling Queers with creative juices and a political edge…for a collaborative visual arts project Is the strong desire for Modi amongst his bhakts ‘erotic’? (Why) Do people want a dominating daddy figure as a leader? How did Jayalalitha’s public same sex marriage (of sorts) affect her image and electability? Do people find Kanhaiya sexy? Is […]

Understanding Sex Work in an Open Society

Who are sex workers? Sex workers are female, male, or transgender adults who receive money or goods in exchange for consensual sexual services or erotic performances, either regularly or occasionally. Why use the term “sex worker” rather than “prostitute”? The terms “sex work” and “sex worker” recognize that sex work is work. Many people who […]

Women and LGBT voices from Nigeria: Empower Newsletter n. 2

Women’s Health and Equal Rights Initiative (WHER) has launched its second issue of Empower newsletter. “We are hoping that our work will be a challenge to everyone to raise their voices in unity with ours as we continue on this quest for equality in a society where women are often faced with discrimination and violence.” […]

ARROW for Change – Intersections: The Politicisation of Religion and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The world is seeing a resurgence of religious extremism at national, regional, and global levels, which renews the threat to many of the rights that would be achieved and concretised such as equality of women, of citizens who belong to ethnic and religious minorities, and of sexual minorities. Amid this troubling development, ARROW has published […]

LGBT Pride 2017: news from the world (and the margins)

Anti-occupation LGBTQ activists block Tel Aviv pride parade – 972 The Latest: Tear Gas, Checkpoints Greet LGBT Pride in Turkey – U.S News The Baltic Pride 2017 Programme Officially Launched – LGL Pro-LGBT posters appear in the streets of Baghdad: ‘Difference is the basis of life’ – The Independent Gay pride parade in Seoul draws […]

An open apology to sex workers in South Africa

Marlise Richter I am writing to you now that my fingers can type again after feeling numb with disbelief at the South African Law Reform Commission’s recommendations released just before the weekend. Dear Sex Worker friends and colleagues and allies, There were rumours late on Thursday afternoon that the Department of Justice and Correctional Services […]