Editorial Statement

By: Admin

14 April 2025

Women’s Liberation Aotearoa (WLA), the group responsible for this website, have decided to take down all the posts written by members of the group Mana Wahine Korero, (MWK) hosted on our site as a gesture of solidarity since 25 July 2021.

We acknowledge that authors of the posts in question have at one time been members of WLA’s social media groups, and in one instance, its organising committee.

It has been brought to our attention that members of MWK participated in the Christian Nationalist “Inflection Point” event last year, organised by Rhys Williams, the man behind the Twitter account, “Holyhekatuiteka”. Further, our understanding is members of MWK worked with Mr Williams to prepare policy adopted by NZF in the current Parliament, to “end woke”, including measures to oppose sex self ID and associated policies.

We acknowledge that some of the positions taken by MWK are similar to positions WLA has taken, due to our materialist feminist understanding that sex and gender are different, and that sex matters in life and law. The similarities in our political positions end there.

Mr Williams is a populist right-wing agitator. His position is not a materialist feminist one. WLA strongly objects to his recent, inept attempt at a dirty politics campaign targeting the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand by attacking its weakest link, the identitarian list MP, Benjamin Doyle, a campaign that was supported by authors of the MWK posts on our site.

The links between MWK and far right, populist political groups and individuals have increased and solidified since the posts were published, to a level we cannot ignore in favour of our common positions on the single issue of the material importance of sex in life and law. As a result, WLA states that we no longer stand in solidarity with Mana Wahine Korero.

We recognise that WLA holds political positions which align with Green Party positions in a general sense, i.e., the primacy in everything of the natural, physical world and environment, the fairer distribution of wealth, the importance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi for our nation, and the complete moral and fiscal failure of our imperialist relic of a prison system, with which we have particular concern for its effects on incarcerated women. WLA urges the Green Party to eschew its emphasis on idealist gender identity politics and to come back down to earth, to its roots, where the rest of its policy positions are needed now more than ever.

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