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Real “wellbeing” means addressing the demands of midwives, teachers – women
By reneejg |
During the election period in 2017, historian Anne Salmond wrote hopefully about an emerging trend she called “Jacindamania.” The appeal ...
Read More Gender harms women: Feedback on international recommendations to the New Zealand government
By reneejg |
Feedback on the recommendations from New Zealand’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council in ...
Read More "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. ...
Read More Feminists must think radically to reject sex self-identification laws
By reneejg |
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense ...
Read More Transgenderism: the latest phase of disaster capitalism
By reneejg |
Believers in the shock doctrine are convinced that only a great rupture – a flood, a war, a ...
Read More Conquest: on the inseparability of militarism and prostitution
By reneejg |
As long as men have gone to war, they have kidnapped women and children for sexual slavery. According ...
Read More The creation of patriarchy: How did it happen?
By reneejg |
I began with the conviction, shared by most feminist thinkers, that patriarchy as a system is historical: it ...
Read More Censored piece: Jeez, Louise – may we have our own thoughts, please?
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This piece starts with an explanatory note and story about the article to follow. The article itself - ...
Read More Pride, police, politicians, pundits and prison abolitionists: What's going on?
By reneejg |
To say the least, there are echoes of the Emperor’s new clothes in our annual Pride Parades. Since ...
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Censored from Scoop: Green Party sex self-identification proposals are “transphobic”
I am getting very used to censorship by so-called leftist outlets. Scoop Media published this article on May...

Censorship, big money, blackmail and backlash: Why more New Zealand women aren't speaking out on gender identity
Last week, I was offered a chance by TV One's Q&A to present a feminist take on the...

“Transwomen are doubleplus good women”: Government receives late submission on Births Bill from Handmaids Association
Earlier this week, a late submission was made on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration (BDMRR) Bill...

Women's gym receives unwelcome visit from “Dick Surprise”
A Wellington women's gym has received a sign-up request from an unexpected source. Dick Surprise, who identifies as...
There has never been a democracy, so far–only an androcracy