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On rape culture, and why I wear a whistle

This piece is written in response to Amnesty International's just released policy on prostitution, a recent piece on "sex ...
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Why the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective shouldn't get the first and final say on prostitution

As a rule, trade unions take their industries for granted. We're not likely to see the president of ...
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How Te Papa exploits its bicultural policy to manufacture Maori consent for whitewashed histories

...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

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

There's a reason why children play with toy soldiers that are only an inch high. It's so they ...
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A message to Nicola Young, about her 'begging ban'

Nicola Young. I was thinking of you yesterday. I bumped into my friend Arthur, who lives on the ...
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A call to Dutch New Zealanders: support West Papua on Liberation Day

On May 5, the Netherlands celebrates Liberation Day, or Bevrijdingsdag. The day marks the end of the occupation ...
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Did you mean "Best We Forget"?

New Lest We Forget flags and ANZAC military and poppy propaganda have sprung up around Lambton Quay and Courtenay ...
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I want free self defense classes offered to all women in New Zealand. And I want White Ribbon to pay for them.

White Ribbon is an organisation that owes a great debt to women. White Ribbon is a group of ...
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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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