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 ...

August 2, 2016

When I was eight, the kids at school used to call me the "dictionary eater" - ironically, this...

July 26, 2016

Two Wellington women have made news calling out Courtney Place's Vinyl Bar, for its shockingly negligent response to sexual harassment...

July 10, 2016

I'm quite sure the select committee on the TPPA is an all-male panel, unlikely to investigate the potential...

July 8, 2016

"Creativity" is a twenty-first century buzzword, and it's been refreshing in recent years to see thinkers like Ken Robinson apply...

July 5, 2016

I have two good friends who are mums with small boys who like wearing nail polish and dresses,...

July 3, 2016

Last year, Te Papa museum exhibited one of my favourite Aotearoa artworks. It was part of a small...

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

— Lierre Keith