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Censored from Scoop: Green Party sex self-identification proposals are “transphobic”

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

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

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Women's gym receives unwelcome visit from “Dick Surprise”

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"Sex-based protections are undermined wherever sex is ill-defined": Oral submission to parliament

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The interview on breast binding that "simply dropped out of the system" at Radio New Zealand

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Press release: Handmaid joins in WWI Dawn Parade

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Press release: ANZAC Day “Patriarchal Bollocks” work temporarily installed at memorial park

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Why I left the left: New Zealand's activist scene is sexism saturated

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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

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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...
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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...
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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...

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.

— Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

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