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On Finding Spirit (My story of reading and radicalising: Part II)
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If we were going to start from scratch why not deconstruct the whole premise? - DQ Through a ...
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On Finding Solidarity (My story of reading and radicalising: Part I)
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No more can I dull my rage In alcohol and deference To men’s courts I will come to ...
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Transgenderism, Neoliberalism and Rape Culture: Brisbane talk
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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
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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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Feedback on the recommendations from New Zealand’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council in ...
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"Where are the women?": An interview with Cynthia Enloe
By reneejg |
I began to read feminist literature -- real, radical feminist literature -- around 2014, and found it transformative. ...
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Feminists must think radically to reject sex self-identification laws
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense ...
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Transgenderism: the latest phase of disaster capitalism
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Believers in the shock doctrine are convinced that only a great rupture – a flood, a war, a ...
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Conquest: on the inseparability of militarism and prostitution
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As long as men have gone to war, they have kidnapped women and children for sexual slavery. According ...
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By the numbers: The oppression of women and girls globally
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#MeToo and the call for "restorative justice": Are they compatible?
In New Zealand, “restorative justice” (RJ) advocacy is currently in vogue. In August, the government held a $1.6...
Original sin: How the law makes a crime of being female
“The justice system is the core of patriarchy,” Gudrun Jonsdottir told me. Jonsdottir has been part of the...
The status of women in New Zealand: A summary of findings and independent working report
This report gathers findings from a range of sources, as well as including anecdotal material on unresearched aspects...
Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled.