Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on?
To understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism, black-and-white, political framing.
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Louisa Wall – This Is Not Feminism – It’s Fiscal Evasion Dressed in Lipstick
Louisa Wall eviscerates Government claims about pay equity.
While the gender/sex culture war rages…
Listen to the detransitioners.
Open letter to Judge Glubb
… the assault had the very real potential to cause serious, possibly fatal injuries.
That fact should have featured in your sentencing, if only to use the opportunity to send a message to all men who punch women, and to young men who punch anyone in the head but especially old women, that it is an extremely dangerous act.
The “New Zealand model” for prostitution liberalisation doesn’t work
The Women’s Rights Party New Zealand and the Women’s Declaration International – New Zealand recently made a joint submission to Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
Labour’s Women’s Manifesto
“A re-elected Labour Government will continue its proud tradition of advancing women’s health, employment, and legal rights Spokesperson for Women Jan Tinetti said.”
Barbie Will Save The World
Ad believes the Barbie Movie will be a mobilising element in regaining Democrat balance in Congress (maybe not the Senate) and the White House.
The Women’s Rights Party
“We are the only political party in New Zealand that puts women first”
Enter the Patriarchy
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; send him off to fish and you get a matrilineal society.
UN expert: Allow women and girls to speak on sex, gender and gender identity without intimidation or fear
“I am deeply concerned at the escalation of intimidation and threats against women and girls for expressing their opinions and beliefs regarding their needs and rights based on their sex and/or sexual orientation”
– Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
The patriarchy is not inevitable
One of the prime tasks of feminism is to teach women that the patriarchy is not inevitable.
Letting women speak in Aotearoa New Zealand
A progressive online space for discussion about the Let Women Speak events this weekend.
She who channels her inner Monroe
A Guest Post on the vexed questions posed by Kellie Jay Keen Minshall, her apparent preparedness to ally with religious fundies and right wing extremists, and the predictable calls from sections of the left for her to be banned from entering/speaking in Australia and NZ.
Women’s Liberation Aotearoa Statement on Let Women Speak events, March 2023
We strenuously oppose far right activists using the events to publicise their reprehensible views as we have seen happen in the UK, the USA and most recently in Melbourne.
Gender recognition: woke-ism or human rights?
This debate is about every teenager, anywhere in the world, questioning their gender and sexual identity. This is about the person who after years of suffering, at some point in their lives decides they wish to identify as having a gender identity different to that of their birth.
Gender Critical Disputes
A selection of essays on the importance of feminism in gender critical debate has been published by UK-based, feminist collective The Radical Notion.
Democracy is on the Ballot – watershed US midterms this week.
At a campaign event last week President Biden said that in these mid-term elections “democracy is on the ballot”. This is absolutely true, and the outcome will be decided by those who show up to vote.
A week of sideshows
But the past week has been a week of sideshows. One international as elements of the right try to smear Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin for dancing. And one local where rogue Labour MP Gaurav Sharma is running out of excuses for not backing up the extraordinary claims he has made about the Labour Party.
Mansplaining Luxon
Fresh from his attempt to alienate the female vote by being equivocal on if a National Government would move to restrict access to abortions yesterday Christopher Luxon compounded things by purporting to speak for all women.
Hey Free Speech Union, Simon O’Connor is being muzzled
Someone should send out the free speech police. Simon O’Connor has been muzzled and is being stopped from saying what he thinks.
Christopher Luxon’s many and varied abortion takes
National leader Christopher Luxon who has been previously reported as believing that abortion is murder, issued three public statements over the weekend trying to distance himself from the controversy caused by the US Supreme Court overturning of Rowe v Wade.
The US abortion bans and women’s rights
We have abortion rights by the grace of men.
The Kim Hill/Kathleen Stock interview
Kathleen Stock: the professor who lost her career amid toxic gender debate
What If Roe v Wade is Really Reversed?
It is no mere hypothetical to inquire whether States, as soon as the reversal of Roe v Wade is confirmed, start to aggressively go after kinds of contraception.
The end of Roe v Wade
America’s status as a potentially failed republic is growing stronger with the highest court of the land having a draft judgment leaked in an apparent attempt to shore up a conservative majority position on overturning abortion rights.
UK government signals urgent inquiry into overmedicalisation of gender non-conforming children
This is a medical scandal affecting children and teens, and the left is still largely in denial of it.
National still has a culture problem
This week National found itself the centre of media suggesting that its treatment of women is still not acceptable. A couple of Young […]
Women who challenged the male domination of sport
History PhD student @LottieHistory wrote a twitter thread recently on the work women have done to participate in sport.
Women’s human rights and the vulnerability of pregnant women
While social and mainstream media hash out the details of Charlotte Bellis’ situation, her case points to the gross inequity that women still face even in countries like New Zealand.
Astroturfers of the world unite
Two days before what is claimed will be the mother of all protests links between the Groundswell organisation and the Taxpayers Union have been discovered.
What is gender?
“When people are arguing about gender, quite often one of them is talking about sex, one of them is talking about social stereotypes, and a third one is talking about gender identity, and they’re all shouting at each other”
New misogyny same as the old misogyny
At the largest feminist conference in Europe, with a major focus on male violence against women, gender identity activists chose to protest with sexualised violent language and imagery.
Revisiting sports, trans inclusiveness and women’s sex based rights
The UK Sports Council has released new guidance on trans inclusion in sports, including in relation to biological women
The problems for women with sex self-ID in law and society
What should have been be a straight forward attending to the documentation needs of trans and non-binary people has become a political mess of conflicts with women’s rights. There is still time to make a submission to the BDMRR Bill in order to protect women’s rights (last day for submissions is Tuesday).
Women, the Taliban and sex based rights
What is being done to women in Afghanistan by the Taliban is sex-based oppression.
Women’s Space
A dedicated space on The Standard for women’s debate, and introducing the new feminist online space of Women’s Liberation Aotearoa.