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TAG: women’s rights

“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 into traditional paintings by pooting the black female bodys and their subjectivities literally at the center of her work. In 1955, Emmett Till, a black child, was pistol-whipped, beaten, and […]

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Feminist Alert! Nicaragua’s activists are once again victims

  As SPW has been reporting monthly on how the Nicaraguan crisis develops, we report another sad event that targets feminist activists on 23 November. Activities organized by the Colectivo de Mujeres and Radio Vos in Matagalpa (Nicaragua) started under the siege, harassed by the Sandinista and anti-riot police. The military operation targeted the carnival “We […]

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Honduras discriminates against women and LGBTI as part of a transnational religious effort

On 14 November 2018, the Human Rights Council Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice issued a statement sharing the preliminary findings of the Independent Experts official visit to the country. In their conclusion, they found that, although Honduras has ratified several Human and Women’s Rights treaties, the country […]

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Sexual politics in October 2018

The Brazilian perfect storm We apologize for the delay in the circulation of SPW’s October 2018 monthly announcement due to the stormy process and result of the Brazilian presidential elections. We needed time to begin processing this outcome and to select relevant information that may contribute to a better understanding of this crucial turn of […]

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Women in the 2018 Brazilian elections: paradoxes and democratic resistance

by Denise Mantovani[1] and Maria Lígia Elias[2] It is not easy to analyze an electoral context in “real time”. But we cannot, however, escape from examining the 2018 Brazilian elections from a feminist gender perspective. This is so because the themes that inhabit the feminist perspective are at the center of an electoral process in which […]

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