Sarah Catherall interviews Sue Kedgely for Your Weekend.
‘Sue Kedgley looks out her living room window at the wind battering Oriental Parade and blames men for the mess we find ourselves in. Concerned about our out-of-balance world on the brink of ecological collapse, she points the finger at 6000 years of patriarchy, and says it’s time to “feminise our world’’.
Kiwis probably know the 73-year-old best for her work as a Green MP, local body politician and food activist. Today, she’s on the local district health and Consumer New Zealand boards. She’s less well known as a pioneering feminist, but Kedgley was a prominent leader of the 1970s women’s liberation movement, who pushed for many of the changes which women take for granted today. She’s written about her life as a feminist in her new book, her seventh, Fifty Years a Feminist, which traverses five decades of feminism and activism seen through her eyes.’
Read the full piece here.
