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Real “wellbeing” means addressing the demands of midwives, teachers – women
By reneejg |
During the election period in 2017, historian Anne Salmond wrote hopefully about an emerging trend she called “Jacindamania.” The appeal ...
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Gender harms women: Feedback on international recommendations to the New Zealand government
By reneejg |
Feedback on the recommendations from New Zealand’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council in ...
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"Where are the women?": An interview with Cynthia Enloe
By reneejg |
I began to read feminist literature -- real, radical feminist literature -- around 2014, and found it transformative. ...
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Feminists must think radically to reject sex self-identification laws
By reneejg |
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense ...
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Transgenderism: the latest phase of disaster capitalism
By reneejg |
Believers in the shock doctrine are convinced that only a great rupture – a flood, a war, a ...
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Conquest: on the inseparability of militarism and prostitution
By reneejg |
As long as men have gone to war, they have kidnapped women and children for sexual slavery. According ...
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The creation of patriarchy: How did it happen?
By reneejg |
I began with the conviction, shared by most feminist thinkers, that patriarchy as a system is historical: it ...
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Censored piece: Jeez, Louise – may we have our own thoughts, please?
By reneejg |
This piece starts with an explanatory note and story about the article to follow. The article itself - ...
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Pride, police, politicians, pundits and prison abolitionists: What's going on?
By reneejg |
To say the least, there are echoes of the Emperor’s new clothes in our annual Pride Parades. Since ...
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Out of the Fog: Book launch talk and summary
This is the talk I gave for the online launch of my new book, Out of the Fog:...
Press release: New book, OUT OF THE FOG, available now!
A new book by feminist writer Renée Gerlich, titled Out of the Fog: On Politics, Feminism and Coming...
“a balm for all wounds”: on the life of Etty Hillesum under Nazi occupation
It's hard to know how to preface an essay about the Dutch-Jewish diarist Etty Hillesum, who lived in...
On Finding Spirit (My story of reading and radicalising: Part II)
If we were going to start from scratch why not deconstruct the whole premise? - DQ Through a...
There has never been a democracy, so far–only an androcracy