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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
By reneejg |
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
By reneejg |
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
By reneejg |
As long as men have gone to war, they have kidnapped women and children for sexual slavery. According ...
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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 ...
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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 - ...
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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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The birds and mice will hear you: On transactivism and the characteristics of totalitarian rule
As soon as I was old enough to understand, my mother warned me that I should be careful...
Whitewashed "feminism" and the women building Pacific and global solidarity in spite of it
This article can be read in Turkish here. For Grace and Pala Molisa, though it may not...
The new troubadours: On the male crusaders for the left facilitating today's witch hunts
“Make love not war” is still a phrase that captures the left. Tracing its origins takes us back...
It's time students told pro-sex trade academics: #TimesUp
When I began university as an undergraduate, in 2003, I was far from calling myself a feminist. Like...
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance.