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It's time students told pro-sex trade academics: #TimesUp

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

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Women are too angry and hungry for freedom to march for "consent"

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By Deidra Sullivan: Dear Women's March Organisers – Name the Problem of Pornography

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Will the brighter morning come?: On Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes speech

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The article on prostitution the Women's Studies Journal requested – then brushed off

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How a whitewashed “choice” feminism undermines women's resistance all over India

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Sex trafficking by deceit and complicity: an exchange with Salient magazine and the Press Council

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Why discuss gender as the world burns?

This talk was delivered on October 29, 2023, at a Deep Green Resistance gathering in Germany. If you...
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Cassandra’s Power: Anarchism from a Feminist Perspective

This talk was delivered on October 28, 2023, at a Women's Declaration International gathering in London. If you...
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The Silver-Tongued Devil and the Principle of Distortion

This talk was delivered at the annual Deep Green Resistance conference, in California, 2023. The talk can be...
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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

It's hard to know how to preface an essay about the Dutch-Jewish diarist Etty Hillesum, who lived in...

There has never been a democracy, so far–only an androcracy

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World

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