“We have to talk about sex. It’s important”
British philosophy professor Kathleen Stock being interviewed by Redline’s Daphna Whitmore on gender critical feminism and the sex/gender wars. Also, why being able to debate matters.
Politics
feminism
Women’s Day
A dedicated space on The Standard for women’s debate.
Women and male violence
Sarah Everard’s death has been a touchpaper that has ignited the ever present anger in women at having to live in a world that is fundamentally unsafe for us simply on the basis of our sex.
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Matters Here
RBG’s death was an important event for women here because it happened on the anniversary of Women’s Suffrage Day 126 years ago. On this day in New Zealand we celebrate women being able to vote, the women who won further victories of political liberation, and many got together to recount our female heroes enabled by that right and all those rights that followed.
Should the government replace sex data with gender (identity) data?
Stats NZ want to use gender rather than sex as the default for data collection. But they’ve neglected to ask women about that.
National’s culture review shambles
National’s internal cultural review has been completed but two female MPs most affected by recent events were not interviewed.
The Kavanaugh confirmation hearing
The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing last week showed two extremes, one person describing a painful event in her past life and another person angrily denying that anything happened and claiming it was all about him.
How Patriarchy Works; A Newshub Special Investigation
A schoolgirl correctly identified exactly what caused the stink at Carterton South school. Why wasn’t she listened to?
Litigation and equal pay – a history of the 1950’s equal pay campaign
Forward In 2016 I wrote the below dissertation as part of my History Honours degree at Victoria University. This dissertation explores the 1950s […]
Period. End. Done.
The Scottish government has just taken a massive step to eradicate period poverty. Why not here?
Coming up, Babies!
Jacinda’s baby is going to be big news soon.
No class National
National MPs are refusing to own up to who used a sexist comment in Parliament against Jacinda Ardern.
Marilyn Waring still takes no prisoners
Unpaid labour “is the single largest sector in any nation’s economy and the whole of the market economy only is able to function on top of that.”
Corporate media: Blame it on the alcohol
Do we have a sexual assault problem in New Zealand, or an alcohol problem? The media has decided for you. (Content warning: Sexual assault, rape culture, discussion of problematic news coverage thereof)
Good Witches Hunting
With the publishing of another misogynistic cartoon, it’s time to ask who were the witches and why are so many men still afraid of them?
Why gender equity matters: #metoonz
It’s time for progressive men to support women’s politics, in New Zealand and here on The Standard.
ALRANZ: 16 reasons to change the abortion law
Labour are intending to change NZ’s abortion laws. ALRANZ has 16 good reasons why that’s important (and overview of the current laws).
Knighthood Interrupted, and the curious case of New Zealand Defamation Law
Bob Jones is now suing the woman that wants to strip him of his Knighthood over her use of the term “hate speech.” Can we think about perhaps stopping this litigiousness now?
The planet needs women
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin discuss women’s friendship, sisterhood, equality, and the power of women to change the world.
There is a hole left in the world
Ursula K Le Guin has died.
Take abortion out of the Crimes Act
Abortion is still a crime in NZ. It’s time to change the law so that women don’t have to lie about their mental health to get the health care they need.
Shaking the Tree
When an apple tree is shaken, pips can fall to the ground and germinate. And then things grow back more or less as before.
Voltairine de Cleyre
When history buries treasures, those treasures don’t have to remain buried.
People of the Year
Time has named participants of the #MeToo campaign its people of the year. So why hasn’t the movement taken hold in New Zealand the way it has in the United States?
Marama Davidson – Honouring Influential Women
“Our role in Government is to protect and support the work that these grassroots influential women are doing. Our role is not to continue to create and place barriers in their way.”
Speaking of mothers
There’s a direct relationship between how badly we treat mothers and how much we exalt neoliberalism.
Sexist pigs and lipstick
I like some TOP policy I really do, but Gareth Morgan needs to stop being a dick if he wants to get his party over the line.
NACT
“Here’s a new idea for the Tories: Why not ask a simple question every time you propose a course of action: Is this morally just?”
Messages for the Left
Kōrero Pono writes about the class divide within the parliamentary Left and the importance of the wider Left’s message in this election.
Women, know your place!
What decade are we in again?
Nats deny women pay equity transparency
As usual National proves itself to be no friend of women. They have voted the Equal Pay Amendment Bill down because they will always choose employers over people.
International Women’s Day, 47 years on, how far have we come?
Test of a speech given by feminist icon Sandra Coney on the state of the feminist movement in 2017
We Are All ‘Identarian’ Now
There has been an unfortunate trend developing in recent weeks, of negatively labelling people who dare to have a different opinion on equality to the labeller, as identarian. This description is something to be appreciated in these times when dark forces appear to be on the rise again.
Trump’s global gag law on abortion
“Donald Trump signs anti-abortion executive order surrounded by men”
Protest Marches
The Sister Marches have been a huge success worldwide.
Women to protest Trump’s inauguration
Various events are planned in protest around Trump’s inauguration. One of them is a series of marches organised by and for women. There are (at time of writing) 386 marches organised world wide, including in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.