Out of the Fog On Politics, Feminism and Coming Alive

by Gerlich, Renée

• ISBN13: 9781925950540
• ISBN10: 1925950549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-10-04
• Publisher: Spinifex Press

Summary

From racialised police brutality to climate change, #MeToo, ‘trans rights,’ COVID-19, the prospect of nuclear war, and the prevalence of trauma—we are constantly bombarded with high stakes problems that we are expected to speak out about and act on. On closer inspection, the popular solutions to each of these problems aren’t easy to reconcile. Black Lives Matter activists demand prison abolition, while #MeToo feminists want rapists in jail—and while our objections to war and police brutality make us suspicious of state institutions in general, our responses to climate change and COVID-19 reinforce our dependency on them. Out of the Fog cuts through the confusion. Renée Gerlich suggests that readers move beyond feeling overwhelmed and emotionally manipulated.

Author Biography

René e Gerlich is a New Zealand-based writer and artist whose work can be found on Feminist Current, Savage Minds, and her blog, reneejg.net. René e has a background in art history and education and completed her Masters in Art History at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She was researcher for the 2016 documentary called The HeArt of the Matter, about the development and subsequent rollback of education reforms implemented by New Zealand’ s first Labour government, directed and produced by Luit and Jan Bieringa.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter One: My Story Chapter Two: Desire and Distortion Chapter Three: Rebellion and Backlash Chapter Four: Fatal Contradictions Chapter Five: Cassandra’ s Power