We won’t abandon our women comrades to the stake
Whenever a trans person succumbs to the violence of patriarchy, an horde of opportunists takes advantage of it to persecute women....
Prostitution vs Abortion: legality and vulnerability
It is not the lack of labor rights that places prostituted women in precariousness and danger, but the lack of civil rights....
Prostitution vs Abortion: choice and body sovereignty
Abortion is about a woman doing something with her own body. Prostitution is about someone else doing something to a woman’s body....
Prostitution vs Abortion: neither a profession nor a crime
The regulation lobby frames the entire discussion as if recognizing prostitution as "sex work" was the only option. That is not the case....
Fallacies of prostitution: consent and choice
Is financially coerced rape less violent because it had "consent"? What "choice" is there in the decision between selling you body or starving?...
Fallacies of prostitution: moralism
Lacking structural analysis, critics of abolitionism accuse the opposition of moralism - even when the opposition includes ex-prostitutes....
Fallacies of prostitution: revisionism and whitewashing
What are the mental gymnastics being used to reformulate the world’s oldest female oppression into “the world’s oldest profession”?...
Portugal // 5 000 offenders pay to clean up their domestic violence records
The Public Ministry is applying a provisional suspension of the process that clears the record of the accused as long as they comply with an...
Portugal // Feminicide and domestic violence numbers
24 women have already been murdered "in a context of intimacy or close familiar relations" since the beginning of 2018....
Portugal // Rape is the violent crime that has increased the most
Misogynous attitudes supported by myths and a lack of policies continue to dominate national attitudes towards this violent crime....