Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • The importance of words

    Expanding on some thoughts I had on Twitter. It’s an interesting phrase, “language policing”. We all know what the police are. Even people with the good fortune/whiteness to have mainly…

  • Make the bludgers pay their fair share

    Few things in this world make me eyeroll as strongly as the quibblers who jump up whenever you point out the discrepancy between the amount of money lost to benefit…

  • Easter trading

    Easter Sunday is one of the three-and-a-half days a year when (most) shops have to be closed. That could be changing. From Denise Roche of the Greens: The new rules…

  • Earworm of the day: Dethklok

    Yeah, this is a really weird one. The two members of my family who I know read this should probably avoid this week’s earworm. But I guess if you’re related…

  • Migration, taps and growing pains

    I keep promising to review Anat Shenker-Osorio’s book Don’t Buy It. I’m getting there, I promise. My copy is almost more Post-It Note than paper at the moment. But there’s…