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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 ...
Read More The people who wrote to support feminist action at Auckland Pride: Thank you.
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Note: GNC is an abbreviation for gender non-conforming. On the evening of Saturday, February 17, Charlie Montague ...
Read More Press release: Feminists Lead Auckland Pride Parade
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This press release was sent to major New Zealand media outlets on February 17, and not published. This ...
Read More The birds and mice will hear you: On transactivism and the characteristics of totalitarian rule
By reneejg |
As soon as I was old enough to understand, my mother warned me that I should be careful ...
Read More Whitewashed "feminism" and the women building Pacific and global solidarity in spite of it
By reneejg |
This article can be read in Turkish here. For Grace and Pala Molisa, though it may not ...
Read More The new troubadours: On the male crusaders for the left facilitating today's witch hunts
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“Make love not war” is still a phrase that captures the left. Tracing its origins takes us back ...
Read More It's time students told pro-sex trade academics: #TimesUp
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When I began university as an undergraduate, in 2003, I was far from calling myself a feminist. Like ...
Read More Climate change is not the definitive issue of our time – male violence is
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There is a word activists often use to describe environmental devastation. Like the gaping hole that has gutted ...
Read More Women are too angry and hungry for freedom to march for "consent"
By reneejg |
When I was fifteen, I started going out with my first boyfriend. It was 1999. I still feel ...
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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...
There has never been a democracy, so far–only an androcracy