Vol. 3 (2019): Lo sexual es político

In the first decade of the 21st century, the epistemological frameworks and the practices that link the sexual and the political have developed in an unprecedented way. On the one hand, there has been an increase and diversification in the activisms' actions  regarding the problems of bodies, sexualities, and diverse and dissident eroticities; on the other hand, there has been a proliferation of aesthetic and artistic productions in this regard. There has even been a very important legal and institutional activity around these issues: think, for example, of Argentina's national laws on sexual and reproductive health, sexual education, equal marriage, gender identity, laws that have been not only fundamental achievements for feminisms but also generators of changes in the sexual life in our societies. That is why it is pertinent to read what has been happening since the beginning of the new millennium through the lens provided by the slogan "sexual is political", which clearly takes up that other slogan formulated in the 1970s, "personal is political", when feminisms entered with force to dispute politics in the terrain of intimacy, of the private, of emotional and erotic bonds and of bodies.