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“Transwomen are doubleplus good women”: Government receives late submission on Births Bill from Handmaids Association
By reneejg |
Earlier this week, a late submission was made on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration (BDMRR) Bill ...
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Women's gym receives unwelcome visit from “Dick Surprise”
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A Wellington women's gym has received a sign-up request from an unexpected source. Dick Surprise, who identifies as ...
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"Sex-based protections are undermined wherever sex is ill-defined": Oral submission to parliament
By reneejg |
This is the text of my oral submission on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill. It ...
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The interview on breast binding that "simply dropped out of the system" at Radio New Zealand
By reneejg |
On May 3, I was called by a Radio New Zealand journalist to give an interview for Morning ...
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Press release: Handmaid joins in WWI Dawn Parade
By reneejg |
As the grand finale in the World War One centenary series, the 2018 Dawn Parade promised to be ...
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Press release: ANZAC Day “Patriarchal Bollocks” work temporarily installed at memorial park
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This press release was published on Scoop Media and later deleted by Joe Cederwall and Alastair Thompson. Apparently ...
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Why I left the left: New Zealand's activist scene is sexism saturated
By reneejg |
Like many other Gen X New Zealanders, I grew up with a social conscience, but in a climate ...
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Protect women's rights and spaces: Submission on the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill
By reneejg |
1 March 2018 Submission on the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill To the Governance and Administration ...
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The people who wrote to support feminist action at Auckland Pride: Thank you.
By reneejg |
Note: GNC is an abbreviation for gender non-conforming. On the evening of Saturday, February 17, Charlie Montague ...
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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...
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...
There has never been a democracy, so far–only an androcracy