With his work Orientalism in 1978, some would say, Edward Said laid the foundation for today's post-colonialism and provided many linking points for academic and social debates. How important postcolonial perspectives are, we see not only in academic research, but also when the news reports that statues of colonial rulers and slave traders are sunk in harbor basins.
In this episode we talk about post-colonial perspectives on women´s and gender rights, especially when it comes to women in politics, gender-based political violence and the rights of trans people within the intersection of law, gender studies and political theory.
Katharina Ußling talks with Ligia Fabris, Assistant Professor at Rio de Janeiros Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation and PhD candidate at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany), where she carries out a comparative research on transgender rights in Brazil and Germany.

guest: Ligia Fabris
music: Broke für Free – Melt (CC BY 3.0), Mello C – Deporaju (CC BY-NC 4.0)