Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Labour Party conference

    I’m off to Palmerston North this weekend, for my sins, to attend the annual Labour Party conference. Should be interesting, if not quite the debauched communist blowout which people like…


  • The myth of language policing

    This post has been sitting in draft for a while, but it’s one of those topics which comes up again and again, and will continue to do so for eternity:…


  • Boots Theory’s top 5 posts for October

    It was a pretty big month here at Boots Theory, not that I use my blog stats to boost my self-esteem! So here’s the top five posts that really tickled…


  • The best arguments for a living wage are its opponents

    The fundamental difference between the left and the right is that the left think people are more important than money. That statement usually raises the hackles of nice moderate rightwingers,…


  • Earworm of the day: weird metal

    I’ve been in a bit of a weird mood this week, so have some weird music, starting with some Finnish folk metal: A cello-metal collaboration with Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann,…