Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Protect Your Signature!

    There’s always something comical about American corporations’ union-busting videos. They wouldn’t be out of place in between news clips on Starship Troopers. And if you’re looking for a conspiracy theory,…

  • QOTD: The real theme of the Budget

    Wonderfully summed up by my comrade mickysavage over at The Standard: As the dust settles a few themes are appearing. National agrees that child poverty is an urgent issue but…

  • Improve your lexicon: fat politicians

    I’m on a never-ending quest to improve my vocabulary – both by expanding it, and by getting rid of some of the more objectionable, oppressive language which we all use…

  • Modern fat-shaming: how do I smugly put down my fat friends?

    A de-coding of this NZ Herald “advice” column: Is it ever okay to step in and tell a friend they are too fat? – Weight Watcher, Auckland. “Too fat” is obviously…

  • Words have meanings?

    A beautiful piece from Clarke & Dawe which is always relevant to politics in Aussie and NZ, but perhaps especially so in a week when a government which campaigned on…