Ph.D. Candidate, Amalia Perez Martin co-coordinated a dossier titled "Feminist and LGTBIQ+ Repertoires: Collective Action and Struggle for Rights" for the Chilean Sociological Journal Revista Temas Sociológicos.
Abstract: Issues related to gender inequalities and LGTBIQ+ rights are more central to regional and global politics today than ever before. On the institutional policy level, all governments and actors worldwide, without exception, make these issues a central part of their strategies and discussions. How they absorb feminist and LGTBIQ+ politics and participate in their agendas, or block them, is critical in defining their conservative, authoritarian, or progressive caliber. It also operates as a dividing line in the public identities of political parties, figures, and candidates. In broad terms, gender and sexual dissidence have become a sort of “symbolic glue” that assembles disputes in two areas (Gr-zebalska et al., 2017; Kováts y Põim 2015). One struggles around sexual and reproductive rights, gender inequalities, employment, processes of impoverishment; male violence; etc. Another, regarding the intersections between gender inequalities and those stemming from the racialization of populations and their ethnicity, democracy, financial debt, development models and extractivism, and the defense of territories
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