On July 13-15th, Sexuality Policy Watch, secretariat by Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), is organizing, in Durban, South Africa, the seminar/workshop ‘SexPolitics: Mapping Key Trends and Tensions in the Early 21st Century’.
In the event – whose title evokes SexPolitics: Reports from the Frontlines, published in 2007 – thirty-five researchers and activists from all over the world will present and discuss their analyses and views on how sexuality politics landscapes have been reconfigured since 2002, when SPW was established.
These analyses will cover geographic trends, both in terms of dynamics at play in diverse regions and a number of countries and specific domains of sexuality politics and related research, such as: sexual rights, including developments in relation to trans rights and gender identity, abortion, sex work and HIV and AIDS. While some outcomes of this conversation will be available quite soon, in short articles and video clips, others will comprise a new series of SPW publications planned for 2017.
SPW recommend
Papers and articles
Science and Sexuality in Plainspeak
A Glimpse Into Arab Studies Journal’s Newly Released Issue: Spring 2016
A Development Agenda for Sexual and Gender Minorities – by Andrew Park
On the rights of trans persons
A newly released research by The Williams Institute (UCLA) informs that in the US the number of self-identified transgender person has increased to 1.4 million since 2011.
Clinical Teaching for LGBT Health at the Point of Care – by Sarah E. Stumbar
How did bathrooms get to be separated by gender in the first place? – The Guardian
The Politics of Bathrooms – The New Yorker
Publications and resources
Gloria Careaga interview that critically examines the LGBT rights policy launched in March by the Presidency of Mexico.
A Izwi Lethu publication and newsletter
East Asia Forum Quarterly (EAFQ)’s new issue – Gender and sexuality in Asia today
New GenderIT edition: three key issues for a feminist internet: Access, agency and movements
Research Study in Canada Shows Needs of Rural Sex Workers