Yvonne Van Dongen: The Great Rainbow Heist

There’s Pride Day, Pride Month, Trans Visibility day, rainbow poppies for Anzac Day and even rainbow messaging for Pink Shirt Day next month, a movement intended to promote anti-bullying. These days I can’t even walk the dog along Ponsonby Rd without copping an eyeful of rainbow ticks plastered all over the window of a vape shop.

Some of us are beginning to feel bullied by the rainbow. Women based in material reality know that rainbow is a by-word for gender ideology which erases women and girls and bends the world to accommodate the fetishes of a few men.