Websites
- OMGYes: The Science of Women’s Pleasure
- The Red Web
- Feministing
- Slutist: Tarting up the Body Politic in Shameless Fashions
- Love & Luna
- Te Wharepora Hou: Wahine Māori comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable
Non-Fiction
Female and/or Vaginal Pain
- The Female Price of Pleasure
- Your Pain is Not Real: How Doctors Discriminate Against Women
- Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain
Anorexia
- Love and Restriction: Food, Family and Anorexia
- Being A Perfect Girl Can Kill You – An Excerpt from Unspeakable Things
Body Politics
- The Harvest of Bodies
- The Silent Killing Ground: Abortion in Aotearoa
- If Men Could Menstruate
- I Am Not Afraid: A Narrative and Manifesto About Having An Abortion
- No Disrespect: Black Women and the Burden of Respectability
- The Hidden Epidemic of Doctors Abusing Women in Labor, Doulas say
- My Body Does Not Belong To You
- Mind Control: Barbara Ehrenreich’s radical critique of wellness and self-improvement
- At 14, I self-harmed to erase my body
Pop Culture
- A Patriarchal Parade: Sexism in Aotearoa New Zealand Literature
- The Male Glance
- Why is AI Female? How our Ideas about Sex and Service Influence the Personalities we Give Machines
- White Savior Films
- You Cannot Be ‘Well Read’ Without Reading Women
- I Read the 100 Best Fantasy and Sci-Fi Novels and They Were Shockingly Offensive
- Instead of mourning the great art tainted by awful men, mourn the work we lost from their victims
#MeToo
- We’re Not Done Here: How the MeToo Movement Became a Feminist Sexual Revolution
- MeToo Hijacked Black Women’s Work on Race and Gender Equality
- Silence and Powerless Go Hand-in-hand – women’s voices must be heard
- The People #MeToo Leaves Behind
- How We Can Reconcile Prison Abolition With MeToo
LGBTQI*
- It’s Time To End The Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women
- How To Be A Genderqueer Feminist
- Failing to Care: New Zealand’s Public Health Care Systems and our Transgender Communities
- When Neither Male Nor Female Seems To Fit
- Fa’afafine, trans and bio queens – gender diversity in the NZ drag scene
- How Our Cultural Obsession with Platonic ‘Girlfriends’ Sidelines Queer Women
Sex
- Mother Whore: I Claim Both
- How To Talk To A Slut You Just Met, Know and/or Love
- How To Top Guys Like a Goddamn Lady
- 45 Stories of Sex and Consent on Campus
Power, Patriarchy and Punishment
- Congrats, you have an all male panel!
- Symptoms of a Sick Society: The Growing Female Prison Population
- The Archipelago of Arrogance (Men Explain Things To Me)
- When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy
- God Has Been a Woman Since the Beginning of Time
- Silos and Sexism: – addiction services and mental health
- Why Women Should Release Their Rage
Family or Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
(TW: R*pe, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Distressing Themes)
- The Exiled Child
- Femicide Census: profiles of women killed by men
- PhD in Trauma
- Body of Evidence: An Essay on Harassment
- Why is Rape so Easy to Get Away with
- I Choose Elena: On Trauma, Recovery, and the True Cost of Sexual Violence
- If You Can’t Talk About Rape Without Blaming Victims, Don’t Talk About Rape
- How To Rewire Your Traumatized Brain
Race, Colonialism and Intersectionality
- Maori Women: Caught in the Contradictions of a Colonised Reality
- Why I Don’t Identify With Feminism, Even When It Is Intersectional
- How White Women Use Strategic Tears To Avoid Accountability
- My Feminism Will Be Intersectional or It Will Be Bullshit
- How White People Handle Diversity Training in the Workplace
- Mana Wahine: Decolonising Politics
- On Femen, Hijab, and the Muslim Feminist
- That’s all white then
Fiction
Books
- bell hooks – Feminist Theory: from margin to center
- Naomi Wolf – Vagina
- Ngahuia Te Awekotuku – Mana Wahine Maori: Selected Writings on Maori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics
- Laurie Penny – Unspeakable Things
- Meera Atkinson – Traumata
- Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga – This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
- K. Irwin, I. Ramsden eds. R. Kahukiwa ils. – Toi Wāhine: The Worlds of Maori Women
- Julia Serano – Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Email us ones that have resonated with you and we will put them up!