This talk was delivered on October 29, 2023, at a Deep Green Resistance gathering in Germany. If you like this talk, please consider donating to my PayPal using the address renee.gerlich@gmail.com — I am currently fundraising to purchase a flight home. You can also buy my Brief Complete Herstory e-book here. Thank you!   When I wrote the description of this talk, I said I would talk briefly about the analytical reasons why gender is connected to climate change and militarism, but then plunge into a deeper response to the question. Then I said I would discuss what gender has to d ..read more

This talk was delivered on October 28, 2023, at a Women’s Declaration International gathering in London. If you like this talk, please consider donating to my PayPal using the address renee.gerlich@gmail.com — I am currently fundraising to purchase a flight home. You can also buy my Brief Complete Herstory e-book here. Thank you! I’m going to talk about one of my favourite topics: anarchism. Not too popular among feminists today, thanks to antifa activists, who are generally understood to be anarchists, and often act like it is their calling to give every feminist alive today a massi ..read more

This talk was delivered at the annual Deep Green Resistance conference, in California, 2023. The talk van be viewed on YouTube here. If you like this talk, please consider donating to my PayPal using the address renee.gerlich@gmail.com — I am currently fundraising to purchase a flight home, and in real need of financial assistance. You can also buy my Brief Complete Herstory e-book here, and there’s been no better time! * I’m going to talk on one of my favourite themes, which is the “silver-tongued devil.” Indian philosopher Krishnamurti warned us about him with a story he told during a lectur ..read more

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It’s hard to know how to preface an essay about the Dutch-Jewish diarist Etty Hillesum, who lived in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation, and whose last journal entry was written a year before she was murdered at Auschwitz, while living between Amsterdam and Westerbork, a labour camp for Jews in the Dutch east. I want to say something about how many of us all over the world today, regardless of our specific circumstances, share a sense of the walls closing in; how I know that few terrors compare to murder in a concentration camp; but how, nevertheless, people who have lived through the most brutal ..read more

If we were going to start from scratch why not deconstruct the whole premise?– DQ Through a political act I became a spiritual woman.– Chris Sitka For me, 2019 has been a year of exploring the overlapping worlds of feminism and spirituality. For a long time, I’ve been craving and moving toward a depth of understanding of myself as a woman that only spirituality can offer – but the intensive searching I’ve been doing this year has also been prompted by circumstances that have made the reading I’ve done all the more necessary – and rewarding. What I have learned this year from women has done muc ..read more

No more can I dull my rageIn alcohol and deferenceTo men’s courtsI will come to my sisters,Not dutiful,I will come strong – Pat Parker (from Womanslaughter)   It’s the last new moon before the start of a new decade, and while I haven’t written on my blog for the last few months, today I thought back over the year and realised I wanted to write something about the books I’ve read. I began, but ended up with a two-part essay about what it has meant to me to become a radical feminist over the last four years or so. Given the timing, I decided I’m allowed to publish my reflections. This first ..read more

Below is the text of a twelve-minute talk I gave in Brisbane on October 12, 2019. The talk can be viewed here. The event was hosted by the International Women’s Day Brisbane/Meanjin committee, and the other presentations on transgenderism and rape culture, lesbian erasure, women’s reproductive rights, sports and the left, can be found on their YouTube channel. This talk can be read in Norwegian here and here, Spanish here, and in French here. I have been trying to speak on this issue for four years in New Zealand, and because of vicious and persistent censorship and smearing, I haven’t ma ..read more

During the election period in 2017, historian Anne Salmond wrote hopefully about an emerging trend she called “Jacindamania.” The appeal of Jacinda Ardern, leader of New Zealand’s Labour Party, was due to the fact that people want real “change”: “after 33 years of the cult of the ‘free market’ from both major parties, many Kiwis are finding that its arguments no longer ring true.” Salmond believed that “a seismic shift is under way.” As prime minister, Ardern has been keen to demonstrate that she is “focused on more than just GDP,” by placing an emphasis on mental heal ..read more

Feedback on the recommendations from New Zealand’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council in Geneva The governments of Iceland and Australia have recommended that New Zealand amend Section 21 of our Human Rights Act (HRA) 1993, by adding “gender identity” as a prohibited ground for discrimination. The concept of “gender identity” should not be introduced into the HRA. There are several reasons for this, and this submission will focus on two: The HRA needs to be clear and evidence-based, but the concept of “gender identity” is both vague and ideological. The concept ..read more