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 4, 2018

I am getting very used to censorship by so-called leftist outlets. Scoop Media published this article on May...

July 3, 2018

Last week, I was offered a chance by TV One's Q&A to present a feminist take on the...

June 23, 2018

Earlier this week, a late submission was made on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration (BDMRR) Bill...

June 14, 2018

A Wellington women's gym has received a sign-up request from an unexpected source. Dick Surprise, who identifies as...

May 24, 2018

This is the text of my oral submission on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill. It...

May 14, 2018

On May 3, I was called by a Radio New Zealand journalist to give an interview for Morning...

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World