Despite the happy atmosphere of celebration, this community still faces deep and growing challenges in the country. LGBTQ Rights in Brazil: Could the Elections Impact a Challenging Landscape?Įvery June, São Paulo hosts its own celebration of LGBTQ+ identity and rights. The conversation also explores some of prejudice that still exists when it comes to the participation of trans people, Afro-descendants, and women in Brazilian politics as well as a discussion of the broader challenges that the trans community faces in Brazil. In this interview, we talk about Lima’s motivations for running for public office and her main legislative goals as deputy. She was elected a state deputy for Pernambuco in 2018 through the collective candidacy JUNTAS (PSOL). The Brazil Institute interviewed Robeyoncé Lima, a lawyer and activist who was the first trans woman politician to be elected in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco and first trans lawyer to join the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) in her state. Interview with Robeyoncé Lima, a Voice for Pernambuco’s LGBTQ+ This analysis outlines the avoidable tragedy experienced by LGBTQI individuals when confronted with disasters and impending climate change and how understanding differences at the intersection of identity remains a critical component for designing climate policy that ensures that no one is left out or behind. LGBTQI individuals are uniquely vulnerable to exclusion, violence, and exploitation because of the intersecting impacts of social stigma, discrimination, and climate change. In the aftermath of natural disasters, which are expected to become more frequent and intense as the climate changes, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) community are routinely excluded from response, relief, and recovery efforts. Left Out and Behind: Fully Incorporating Gender Into the Climate Discourse
Heteronormativity in the International Development Sector and Why We Need to Get Over Itīy unpacking the (intended or unintended) consequences of heteronormative policies on individuals’ well-being, an integrated, critical, and political sexuality analysis can help the international development sector to become less heteronormative. Susie Jolly, an Honorary Associate at the Institute of Development Studies, guest writes about heteronormativity, the consequences of it, whether the international development sector is heteronormative, and how the sector can become more inclusive.
Careers, Fellowships, and Internships Open/Close.Science and Technology Innovation Program.The Middle East and North Africa Workforce Development Initiative.Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.North Korea International Documentation Project.Environmental Change and Security Program.Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.Meaning if we want a world without the institutions making up the prison industrial complex we have to think not only the physical buildings making up the prison or about how the ideologies of punishment and exile shape the world outside us but also how they take up space inside ourselves. This work asks us to understand that the world we want to create relies on us prefiguring it through our relationships with each other and ourselves. In her speech, she says: “That is what I want to talk about today, not just what we want to change within the institution or even what we want to dismantle but what we want to grow. She blew everyone away - her speech was honest, compelling, empowering, and truly touching.
I didn’t do this just for myself.”ġ1.) Reina Gossett - an activist, writer and filmmaker (keep your eye out for Happy Birthday, Marsha! coming out this year) - delivering the commencement address at Hampshire College. An Oregon judge granted the 52-year-old’s petition to identify as gender neutral. Passengers wrote her pages filled with love and condolences, and some even donated money.ġ0.) Jamie Shupe becoming the first legally non-binary person in the U.S. It gave me life in a time when it seemed hopeless.ĩ.) When a group of flight attendants and passengers on a JetBlue flight came together to support a grandmother of Omar Capo, one of the victims in the Orlando shooting. 8.) Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s response to North Carolina’s HB2 bathroom bill empowered me.