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Censored from Scoop: Green Party sex self-identification proposals are “transphobic”
By reneejg |
I am getting very used to censorship by so-called leftist outlets. Scoop Media published this article on May ...
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Censorship, big money, blackmail and backlash: Why more New Zealand women aren't speaking out on gender identity
By reneejg |
Last week, I was offered a chance by TV One's Q&A to present a feminist take on the ...
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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”
By reneejg |
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
By reneejg |
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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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...
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance.