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 ...

July 13, 2019

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

March 12, 2019

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

March 4, 2019

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

March 2, 2019

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

February 14, 2019

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

December 20, 2018

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

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

— Lierre Keith