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If yoga is a peace practice, can we still do it in Bali?
By reneejg |
Article written for West Papua with Sarrah Jayne, Off the Mat Wellington The practice of yoga is an art and a ...
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The importance of music at school: lessons from Ngataki
By reneejg |
In February this year, Radio New Zealand reported that music in schools is in crisis. Programmes receive meager funding from the Education ...
Read More Some johns are policemen: on sexual violence, reporting, and legalising prostitution
By reneejg |
On May 26, Amnesty International released a policy on prostitution, advocating for the global decriminalisation of prostitution worldwide, ...
Read More On rape culture, and why I wear a whistle
By reneejg |
This piece is written in response to Amnesty International's just released policy on prostitution, a recent piece on "sex ...
Read More Why the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective shouldn't get the first and final say on prostitution
By reneejg |
As a rule, trade unions take their industries for granted. We're not likely to see the president of ...
Read More How Te Papa exploits its bicultural policy to manufacture Maori consent for whitewashed histories
By reneejg |
...and why Aotearoa needs to see a 100% Pacific-curated exhibition about the impact of empire, and resistance to empire, in Oceania. ...
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Te Papa's response to critical engagement: quiet, yet arresting
By reneejg |
This year, I've been at Te Papa on four separate occasions, to respond to the position on militarism in ...
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Gallipoli: The Scale of our War Propaganda
By reneejg |
There's a reason why children play with toy soldiers that are only an inch high. It's so they ...
Read More A message to Nicola Young, about her 'begging ban'
By reneejg |
Nicola Young. I was thinking of you yesterday. I bumped into my friend Arthur, who lives on the ...
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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...
On Finding Solidarity (My story of reading and radicalising: Part I)
No more can I dull my rage In alcohol and deference To men’s courts I will come to...
Transgenderism, Neoliberalism and Rape Culture: Brisbane talk
Below is the text of a twelve-minute talk I gave in Brisbane on October 12, 2019. The talk...
Real “wellbeing” means addressing the demands of midwives, teachers – women
During the election period in 2017, historian Anne Salmond wrote hopefully about an emerging trend she called “Jacindamania.” The appeal...
Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled.