Women s Mongrel Mob Chapter: Death threats, fighting domestic violence and feminism
12 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
11 minutes to read
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WARNING: This article references violence and sexual assault. Paula Ormsby, leader of the first women s Mongrel Mob chapter, takes Katie Harris into the Iron Dog pad and tells her about the reality of gang life a year on from launching the Wāhine Toa. There were death threats, there were rape threats, there were violence threats.
It came like a tsunami.
Reaction to the creation of the first women s Mongrel Mob chapter was instant – the backlash unrelenting.