CLAM - Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos

(Re)imagining Research, Activism, and Rights at the Intersections of Sexuality, Health, and Social Justice.

Global Public Health Special Issue Call for Contributions

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CLAM collaborators write on Bolsonaro"s politics of death, Covid-19 and racial inequality in Brazil.

So what, the president said

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New issue. For ten years now, CLAM"s open-access periodical has explored sex politics and culture with a regional scope.

SEXUALIDAD SALUD Y SOCIEDAD # 34

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Special Supplement of Cadernos de Saúde Pública showcases scientific research evidence on abortion in América Latina (in English).

Scientific evidence to support the debate

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Policing body diversity
This article offers a critical look at sex verification in sports. While suppossedly devised as protection for the women’s category, the proceedings implemented by the Olympic Committees and sporting federations impose methods of regulation and control whose main effect is the policing of bodily diversity.

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Of our concern
Pulse massacre offers an example of how certain issues speak more directly to specific individuals. In order to understand and feel the gravity of what happened and the reaction it created, it is necessary to comprehend the significance of that space in helping create the identities and subjects of those who frequented there.

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The pedagogies of rape
Despite all of the moral outrage that descended upon social media after a "gang rape" video went viral in Brazil, this event also showed the role of the Internet as a mediator of opinions and sensitivities relating to feminist values.

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Bridging the gap between faith, gender and sexuality
The Sexuality, Poverty and Law Programme at IDS/Sussex launches a free interactive toolkit

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Tensions and dislocations
A new issue of Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad – Latin American Journal explores topics dear to the field of gender, sexuality, health, and politics. By problematizing issues and dislodging assumptions, they bring a reexamination of classical concepts in the humanities and social sciences.

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Call for papers for a special issue
Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad – Latin American Journal welcomes original works for a special issue on “Fundamentalisms,” Sexuality, and Human Rights in Latin America: Expanding the boundaries of a discussion. The deadline for submission of complete manuscripts is January 31, 2016.

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On the media

| Advocacia do Senado se manifesta contra aborto em caso de microcefalia (13/09/2016 - O POVO - )

| Defensores públicos pedem ao STF que mulheres com zika possam abortar (29/08/2016 - ANIS - )

| Vamos continuar a recolher corpos de mulheres mutilados e carbonizados? (29/08/2016 - Folha - )

| Grupo aciona Supremo por direito a aborto se mulher tiver zika (25/08/2016 - Folha - )

| La Corte Constitucional de Colombia avala el matrimonio igualitario (08/04/2016 - El Pais (España) - )

| Zika, la crisis de las mujeres (08/04/2016 - El Mundo (España) - )

| Más de 5.000 embarazadas están ya afectadas por el zika en Colombia (08/04/2016 - El Pais (España, Internacional) - )

| En Respuesta al Virus del Zika: Un Enfoque Feminista (08/04/2016 - Women´s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) - )

| Desigualdade em infraestrutura é catalisadora do surto de zika no Brasil (05/04/2016 - UOL Brasil - )

| Microcefalia e direitos reprodutivos... Mas que direitos? (30/03/2016 - CCR - )

| Para pesquisadora, questão central do aborto não é a microcefalia, mas o direito à saúde da mulher (29/03/2016 - Uol - Brasil - )

| Novos feminismos e a luta pelo direitos das mulheres (11/03/2016 - Nexo - )

| O aborto, como o cisco no olho (11/03/2016 - Diálogos do Sul - )

| DIA DA MULHER: Morrer ou lutar? (09/03/2016 - Agência da Aids - Brasil - )

| Transmissão da zika por via sexual pode ser mais comum, indica OMS (09/03/2016 - Folha de São Paulo - )

Although we do not feature new English contents as regularly, our Latin American website is updated weekly, featuring original articles, interviews, reviews, campaigns and news releases from the whole region. Please visit our Spanish and Portuguese homepages for the latest on sexuality research and sexual rights in Latin America.

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