In 2015, the Americas Research Network will launch a program intended to promote research and academic exchange across international perspectives on the topics of gender, bodies, and sexuality. Key problems in historical and contemporary societies will be approached through the intersection of these analytic axes. Among topics to be included are: (a) health and health policies, illness, medical care practices, and processes of “medicalization” of bodies; (b) legislation, biomedical knowledge and practices, and other factors that impact sexuality; (c) the impact of migration on women and families; and (d) social and cultural interaction across race/ethnicity and sexuality. Better understanding of these issues will add to the development of knowledge that contributes to confronting and overcoming forms of hierarchy, inequality, and violence faced by women and other groups in societies where differences are stigmatized.