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On Finding Solidarity (My story of reading and radicalising: Part I)

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Transgenderism, Neoliberalism and Rape Culture: Brisbane talk

Below is the text of a twelve-minute talk I gave in Brisbane on October 12, 2019. The talk ...
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Real “wellbeing” means addressing the demands of midwives, teachers – women

During the election period in 2017, historian Anne Salmond wrote hopefully about an emerging trend she called “Jacindamania.” The appeal ...
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Gender harms women: Feedback on international recommendations to the New Zealand government

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Feminists must think radically to reject sex self-identification laws

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Transgenderism: the latest phase of disaster capitalism

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Conquest: on the inseparability of militarism and prostitution

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A call to Dutch New Zealanders: support West Papua on Liberation Day

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Did you mean "Best We Forget"?

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I want free self defense classes offered to all women in New Zealand. And I want White Ribbon to pay for them.

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Submission on the TPPA – Request for assessment of the likely impacts on women

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Anti-propaganda banner drop at Te Papa's Gallipoli exhibition

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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance.

— Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

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