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"Unconscious bias" in education goes deeper than the classroom

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#VinylBarHarassment: Wellington women speak out on nightclub rape culture

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How Apirana Ngata pioneered contemporary "creativity in schools"

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If yoga is a peace practice, can we still do it in Bali?

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The importance of music at school: lessons from Ngataki

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Why discuss gender as the world burns?

This talk was delivered on October 29, 2023, at a Deep Green Resistance gathering in Germany. If you...
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Cassandra’s Power: Anarchism from a Feminist Perspective

This talk was delivered on October 28, 2023, at a Women's Declaration International gathering in London. If you...
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The Silver-Tongued Devil and the Principle of Distortion

This talk was delivered at the annual Deep Green Resistance conference, in California, 2023. The talk can be...
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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:...
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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...
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“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...

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it

— Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood (1973)

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