What's sex got to do with it?

(part of 'The Big Story' on Brazil')

Author: Vanessa Baird

In: New Internationalist, 2017, pp. 21-22

Examines how women's rights are under attack since the ousting of President Dilma Rouseff, with scrapping of Ministry of Women and the Ministry on Racial Equality, and notes the Siempre Viva Feminist Organization opposition to dismantling government bodies to protect LGBT+ people. The article also discusses the prevalence of rape culture, and the general impact on women of race and class. Notes growing cultural movement of women of colour, and prominent role of women's movement in protests against Temer's presidency.

Available online at:

https://newint.org/features/2017/10/01/brazil-women-sexual-minorities

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