Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Our unfortunate ignorance

    I may have got a little ranty on The Spinoff’s Facebook page recently, after reading this excerpt from a new book on the “unfortunate experiment” at National Women’s Hospital. To…


  • Updated: doing the math on the Labour list

    Back in November I posted about getting more women into Parliament – particularly, through the Labour Party’s list process. Now there have been a few key candidate selections which shift…


  • 500 posts!

    Bit of a milestone around these parts. Boots Theory kicked off in February 2014 with a post explaining the Pratchett reference in the name for all you heathens who haven’t…


  • QOTD: Somebody has to prepare that steak

    I’m having difficulty finishing Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?, the feminist critique of economics by Katrine Marçal. It’s just too real. Every few pages I put it down with a…


  • Who gets to be apolitical, and who neutrality serves

    A great article about serious politics and Captain America from Dr Naja Later at Women Write About Comics: The trouble is that this narrative is hinged on the idea that…