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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 […]

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 […]

The situation of the intersex community in Mexico

In Mexico and in Latin America the intersex community faces similar problems to those faced by intersex people elsewhere in the world, with some local quirks. Medical protocols still include genital mutilation, and these practices are justified as necessary to “normalize” genital appearance and so avoid problems in social interactions.

Vitit Muntarbhorn: new UN investigator to protect LGBT

The UN Human Rights Council has nominated its first independent investigator aimed at protecting people in regard to sexual orientation and gender idendity across the world from violence and discrimination. Vitit Muntarbhorn will have a three-year mandate to investigate abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. Mr Muntarbhorn is an international law […]

Sex work at the Olympics Games: report

Once again, Rio de Janeiro has hosted a sporting mega-event, this thime the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. And once again, the research teams of Prostitution Policy Watch went into the field (as we did during the 2014 World Cup) to acompany the changes these events would bring to our city’s commercial sexual markets. (You […]

Tribute to Agniva Lahiri

With great sadness SPW informs about the departure of Agniva Lahiri, a young Indian activist from Kolkata, who was deeply engaged in local and global struggles for trans rights and sexual rights more broadly speaking. Agniva has left us too early and will be deeply missed. We share some tributes in her memory. A Tribute […]

Report on sex work activism

The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) has launched its 2015 report that offers detailed description about its campaigns, resources, national and regional trainings. Sex workers rights organisations who would like more information about some of the activities implemented, the obstacles faced and lessons learned should contact ICRSE for discussion […]

The child now: new issue of GLQ journal

The new issue of GLQ Journal, by Duke University Press, brings the theme “The child now” and features Paul Amar’s article “The Street, the Sponge, and the Ultra: Queer Logics of Children’s Rebellion and Political Infantilization.” It also brings articles by Julian Gill-Peterson, Rebekah Sheldon, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Clifford Rosky, Mary Zaborskis. Click here to […]

Key Trends and Tensions in sexual politics: a commentary

It also seemed to me that the general mood of pessimism came from the fact that most of the meeting’s participants were not digital natives, not exactly the ”globalized children”. This meant – again, with notable exceptions – that we still saw activism and policy advocacy

No Turning Back

The six case studies presented in this publication—in Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, South Africa, and Zimbabwe—offer a look at real-life sex worker–led programming that has reduced police abuse, health risks, and other adverse impacts of bad laws and law enforcement on sex workers

News and analysis on AWID International Forum

Visioning Feminist Futures: Opening Plenary at the 13th AWID Forum – Awid Building Alliances to End Gender-Based Violence at Work – Awid Glass ceilings and Cinderella slippers: why the centre cannot hold – openDemocracy Imagine a feminist village of the future – Rahila Gupta – openDemocracy Artivism: art as activism, activism as art – Ché Ramsden […]

UN SOGI Expert: Process, Results and Implications

The defining event of the 32nd Session of the Human Rights Council was the passing of the resolution appointing an Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.