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Press release: Feminists Lead Auckland Pride Parade
By reneejg |
This press release was sent to major New Zealand media outlets on February 17, and not published. This ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The new troubadours: On the male crusaders for the left facilitating today's witch hunts
By reneejg |
“Make love not war” is still a phrase that captures the left. Tracing its origins takes us back ...
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It's time students told pro-sex trade academics: #TimesUp
By reneejg |
When I began university as an undergraduate, in 2003, I was far from calling myself a feminist. Like ...
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Climate change is not the definitive issue of our time – male violence is
By reneejg |
There is a word activists often use to describe environmental devastation. Like the gaping hole that has gutted ...
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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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By Deidra Sullivan: Dear Women's March Organisers – Name the Problem of Pornography
By reneejg |
This letter can be edited or sent as is to Women's March organisers in your area. Suggested Subject ...
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On Golliwogs and Barbie dolls – and liberal double standards
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Nip it in the bud. It's a good principle, when it comes to expressions of injustice in general ...
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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