This talk was delivered on October 29, 2023, at a Deep Green Resistance gathering in Germany. If you like this talk, please consider donating to my PayPal using the address renee.gerlich@gmail.com — I am currently fundraising to purchase a flight home. You can also buy my Brief Complete Herstory e-book here. Thank you! When I wrote […]
Why discuss gender as the world burns? Read More »
This talk was delivered on October 28, 2023, at a Women’s Declaration International gathering in London. If you like this talk, please consider donating to my PayPal using the address renee.gerlich@gmail.com — I am currently fundraising to purchase a flight home. You can also buy my Brief Complete Herstory e-book here. Thank you! I’m going to talk
Cassandra’s Power: Anarchism from a Feminist Perspective Read More »
This talk was delivered at the annual Deep Green Resistance conference, in California, 2023. The talk can be viewed on YouTube here. If you like this talk, please consider donating to my PayPal using the address renee.gerlich@gmail.com — I am currently fundraising to purchase a flight home. You can also buy my Brief Complete Herstory
The Silver-Tongued Devil and the Principle of Distortion Read More »
This is the talk I gave for the online launch of my new book, Out of the Fog: On Politics, Feminism and Coming Alive. The launch was hosted by Spinifex Press and took place on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Thank you to everyone who attended and put up with significant technical glitches! Also – Out of the Fog is
Out of the Fog: Book launch talk and summary Read More »
A new book by feminist writer Renée Gerlich, titled Out of the Fog: On Politics, Feminism and Coming Alive, is now available for pre-order from Spinifex Press. Gerlich’s work has attracted attention in the past, for instance in 2018 – when she was involved in a Pride Parade intervention, was banned by postering company Phantom
Press release: New book, OUT OF THE FOG, available now! Read More »
It’s hard to know how to preface an essay about the Dutch-Jewish diarist Etty Hillesum, who lived in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation, and whose last journal entry was written a year before she was murdered at Auschwitz, while living between Amsterdam and Westerbork, a labour camp for Jews in the Dutch east. I want to
“a balm for all wounds”: on the life of Etty Hillesum under Nazi occupation Read More »
If we were going to start from scratch why not deconstruct the whole premise? – DQ Through a political act I became a spiritual woman. – Chris Sitka For me, 2019 has been a year of exploring the overlapping worlds of feminism and spirituality. For a long time, I’ve been craving and moving toward a
On Finding Spirit (My story of reading and radicalising: Part II) Read More »
No more can I dull my rage In alcohol and deference To men’s courts I will come to my sisters, Not dutiful, I will come strong – Pat Parker (from Womanslaughter) It’s the last new moon before the start of a new decade, and while I haven’t written on my blog for the last
On Finding Solidarity (My story of reading and radicalising: Part I) Read More »
Below is the text of a twelve-minute talk I gave in Brisbane on October 12, 2019. The talk can be viewed here. The event was hosted by the International Women’s Day Brisbane/Meanjin committee, and the other presentations on transgenderism and rape culture, lesbian erasure, women’s reproductive rights, sports and the left, can be found on
Transgenderism, Neoliberalism and Rape Culture: Brisbane talk Read More »
During the election period in 2017, historian Anne Salmond wrote hopefully about an emerging trend she called “Jacindamania.” The appeal of Jacinda Ardern, leader of New Zealand’s Labour Party, was due to the fact that people want real “change”: “after 33 years of the cult of the ‘free market’ from both major parties, many Kiwis are finding
Real “wellbeing” means addressing the demands of midwives, teachers – women Read More »
