Apresentação

Prazer e perigo: situando debates e articulações entre gênero e sexualidade

“…Beginning with the sixth conference in 2012 (in Salvador, Bahia) the category "homoculture" was taken out of the conference's name and it became known as the International Congress for the Study of Sexual Diversity and Gender. This change was related to the recent changes pointed to by Simões and Carrara (2014) in terms of criticisms of the use of the word "homosexuality" as an all-encompassing category for sexual diversity, with new and more diverse forms of sexuality that do not easily fit into the hetero-homo binary coming to the fore França;Braz, 2014), along with gender diversity. 22 "Two academic publications were created in this area at this time, which maintain a regular printing schedule and which are well-considered by several different quality indicators: A Revista Estudos Feministas, which receives substantial support from the Ford Foundation, was founded in 1992 and is published by a national network whose leadership began at UFRJ, passed to UERJ and ended up based at UFSC, from 1999 on; cadernos pagu, which is publications emerged.…”

From shame to visibility: Hashtag Feminism and Sexual Violence in Brazil

“…Following Sonia Alvarez ( 2014), I consider feminism as a discursive field of action that is built around many lines of political communicative webs, guiding strategies and identities. As a discursive field of action, feminism attained media visibility in the 21 st century through many ways, for example the Slut Walk, 15 the underground rock scene, the black feminist and the lesbian and bisexual movements (see Facchini and França, 2011). Many of these groups were already being articulated through the Internet (orkut, blogs, mailing lists) as well, but after the arrival of web 2.0, their visibility expanded.…”

“…Many of these groups were already being articulated through the Internet (orkut, blogs, mailing lists) as well, but after the arrival of web 2.0, their visibility expanded. Sexual rights have been an important issue since the 1970s, but in Brazil they only became visible in recent years (Facchini and França, 2011). The idea that "the personal is political" and that ordinary forms of violence and social inequality should be publicly contested seems to have taken on a new momentum from the year 2000 onwards, particularly after 2010.…”

Feminisms on the web: lines and forms of action in contemporary feminist debate*

“…The Bloggers' activities tend to gravitate around strategies understood as relevant to more recent generations of feminists (Gonçalves, Freitas and Oliveira, 2013;Gonçalves and Pinto, 2011;Facchini and França, 2011) in which the internet has played a fundamental role in linking up networks of "physical persons" 20 , as a resource, language and form of knowledge transmission, and also as a means of articulating positive intergenerational relations (Gonçalves and Pinto, 2011). In this scenario, the internet serves as a means of translating terms, ideas and struggles, based upon the efficacy of this activity in and of itself without presuming that feminism needs to be a consequence of an already formed consciousness.…”

“…Many authors who have looked at generational experience and intergenerational transmission in the field of Brazilian feminism have pointed out the importance of the university as a privileged locus for the feminisms that arose in the country between 1980and 2000(Gonçalves, Freitas and Oliveira, 2013Gonçalves and Pinto, 2011;Facchini and França, 2011;Facchini, Daniliauskas and Pilon, 2013). Gonçalves (2014) emphasizes the need to understand how the theoretical knowledge produced by the universities has been received within the feminist movements.…”