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 ...

March 4, 2016

Committee Secretariat Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Parliament Buildings Private Bag Wellington 10 March 2016 Submission to...

February 8, 2016

Earlier this year, on February 6, hundreds of protesters gathered at an “anti-misogyny” demonstration held in Wellington’s Glover Park....

February 4, 2016

This is a press release that was sent to media on Thursday, 4 February 2016. Images of the...

December 7, 2015

FRASER: 1935 is a watershed in New Zealand education. It marks the beginning of a long period...

October 8, 2015

This article was co-written with Dr. Pala Molisa. In 2003, New Zealand passed the Prostitution Reform Act,...

October 4, 2015

This article was first published in Salient magazine, October 4, 2015. * "...no school system can claim to...

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World