More Posts - Writing by Renee

During the election period in 2017, historian Anne Salmond wrote hopefully about an emerging trend she called “Jacindamania.” The appeal ...

Feedback on the recommendations from New Zealand’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council in ...

I began to read feminist literature -- real, radical feminist literature -- around 2014, and found it transformative. ...

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense ...

Believers in the shock doctrine are convinced that only a great rupture – a flood, a war, a ...

As long as men have gone to war, they have kidnapped women and children for sexual slavery. According ...

I began with the conviction, shared by most feminist thinkers, that patriarchy as a system is historical: it ...

This piece starts with an explanatory note and story about the article to follow. The article itself - ...

To say the least, there are echoes of the Emperor’s new clothes in our annual Pride Parades. Since ...

January 1, 2017

Jeanne Macaskill's left eye had a small spot in it that glistened like the surface of the sea....

January 1, 2017

Equal opportunity is a cornerstone of education. That all children have the same birthright to education – regardless...

November 15, 2016

Though I've never had a stall before, I love the Wellington Zinefest and look forward to it each...

October 3, 2016

Dear Meow, InsideOUT, New Zealand Portrait Gallery and Slow Boat Records, I'm writing regarding your upcoming Darkmatter...

October 2, 2016

Dear RainbowYOUTH and InsideOUT, I'm writing this letter in light of the influence your organisations have and work...

October 1, 2016

In September, I spent a morning at De Young museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. I was excited...

Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled.

— Lierre Keith