Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Louise Upston and beauty pageants

    There’s a lot to unpack in our Minister of Women’s Affairs comments on beauty pageants and feminism, as reported in Stuff. She praises beauty pageants for giving young women (sorry,…

  • What was Ruminator supposed to do?

    I didn’t plan to post about this. There usually isn’t a lot of value in rehashing niche-social-group internet drama in longform. But then I received a phonecall on Friday which…

  • Repost: Employment law: it’s toasted

    In an early episode of Mad Men, when the company’s going for the Lucky Strike account, sleazebag antihero Don Draper asks the client exactly how cigarettes are made. They talk…

  • Repost: A rightwing fairytale about Labour Day

    (Originally posted at On The Left.) I was casting about for something to write today, and that’s when the Internet gave me a gift: a column from Rodney Hide, conveniently…

  • Repost: Life isn’t fair. But it should be.

    (Originally posted at On The Left.) I was not an angelic child. My mother has retconned her memory of my early years since I became an adult, and my grandmother…