Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Defending social services and fighting the real enemy

    A really interesting article on the government’s proposed changes to child protection legislation at Re-Imagining Social Work, looking specifically at the political context and the especially damaging impacts they could…

  • Don’t despair

    I know how you feel, team. It’s year 8 of a National/ACT government and things are looking pretty bleak. And it’s really, really easy to spin down into a spiral…

  • 2016 local government endorsements

    UPDATED: 30/9 with Sustainable Waikato and a busload of Wellington groups! It’s that time of the election season when various groups start putting out their naughty-or-nice lists of local government…

  • The Kermadecs and racist environmentalism

    I did a bit of a tweetstorm earlier today, inspired by seeing friends embroiled in frustrating conversations like this one and the decided slant of articles like this about the…

  • The other war of the polls

    The Dominion Post has been given access to two polls telling slightly different stories about the Wellington mayoral race: Two polls conducted in the past week have revealed Wellington’s mayoral…