Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Labour takes a stand against zero-hour contracts

    Iain Lees-Galloway, Labour’s spokesperson on Labour Issues, has lodged a member’s bill which would ban the use of zero-hour contracts: “Unlike casual agreements that provide flexibility for both employer and…

  • Alesha, Who Smiles At Death and smashes geek stereotypes

    I’ve started using the word “nerd” to describe myself more and more recently. I used to be firmly a “geek”, because geeks were cool and nerds were those awkward people…

  • How does #nzpol do on Facebook?

    Feinstein Doak has a post up with the Top Political Facebook Posts of 2014, and the results are interesting: John Key, unsurprisingly given that his Facebook page has over 180,000 likes,…

  • QOTD: By jingo

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If…

  • QOTD: Mansplaining in Macquarie

    Macquarie Dictionary has declared “mansplaining” to be its word of the year, and some people aren’t happy about that. Amy Gray responds in The Guardian: Of course there are criticisms…