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How New Zealand's sex trade lobby keeps a gag on feminism

The New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective (NZPC) is New Zealand's sex trade lobby. It was established in the 1980s ...
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New Zealand: We need to talk about Rory Francis

On August 24, the Herald reported how Rory Francis, an HIV-positive recidivist child abuser, has been released on ...
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Transactivism is making a mockery of the fight against female genital mutilation

First, do no harm - Hippocratic Oath   About three years ago, Lisa Irwin, who identifies as a ...
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When you compare prostitution to mining – and protest "the rape of the earth"

The image above is Freeport mine in Grasberg, West Papua. Largely owned by U.S. company Freeport McMoRan, this ...
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Yes, this is sexism. Can we please be consistent on that point?

New Zealand Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei is under fire for revealing that she lied to Work and ...
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From The Herald to Spinoff, Massive and Salient to Radio NZ – the New Zealand media is grooming girls for prostitution

A little while ago, I was having roti chanai at a favourite Malaysian takeout with a friend, when ...
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Crying wolf: on hollow "unity" and the left's affinity with humiliated men

There is a story, told in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, of an American man who received ...
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Insisting that women are female isn't extreme – institutionalising medicalised, patriarchal ideals is

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Fundamentalism, pseudoscience, romanticism, and scapegoats: some parallels of gender identity doctrine with Nazi eugenics

Over the last few years, mainstream acceptance of gender identity ideology has grown rapidly. It seems like every ...
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Etty and NH

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...

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it

— Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood (1973)

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