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Why is a man running the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective?

In New Zealand, 85% of people who are prostituted in the sex trade are women. By contrast, 99% ...
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Grooming literature: Cosmo, Dolly, pimping and the "Sex Worker Starter Kit"

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Dear transactivists: stop no-platforming feminists

One of the key, stated motivations driving liberal transactivists is to end unjust violence and discrimination inflicted on ...
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The late Jeanne Macaskill: on what lasts

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Public education: a women's domain, a feminist issue

Equal opportunity is a cornerstone of education. That all children have the same birthright to education – regardless ...
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Sisters (can't) Speak: A response to the Wellington Zinefest organisers from the Zinefest des Refusés!

Though I've never had a stall before, I love the Wellington Zinefest and look forward to it each ...
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Darkmatter should not be welcome in Wellington

Dear Meow, InsideOUT, New Zealand Portrait Gallery and Slow Boat Records,   I'm writing regarding your upcoming Darkmatter ...
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Are you perpetuating sexism? An open letter to RainbowYOUTH and InsideOUT

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San Francisco's De Young Museum, and the lie of Irian Jaya

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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...

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World

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