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 ...

April 24, 2018

As the grand finale in the World War One centenary series, the 2018 Dawn Parade promised to be...

April 23, 2018

This press release was published on Scoop Media and later deleted by Joe Cederwall and Alastair Thompson. Apparently...

April 20, 2018

Like many other Gen X New Zealanders, I grew up with a social conscience, but in a climate...

March 1, 2018

1 March 2018 Submission on the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill To the Governance and Administration...

February 24, 2018

Note: GNC is an abbreviation for gender non-conforming. On the evening of Saturday, February 17, Charlie Montague...

February 17, 2018

This press release was sent to major New Zealand media outlets on February 17, and not published. This...

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World