Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Culture

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Today (well, tomorrow our time) the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. My first exposure to this holiday was through the movie Addams Family Values, and I think it was pretty comprehensive.…

  • The death-throes of patriarchy

    Another day, another panic-mongering, deceptive, anti-social headline from Family First, as reported on Twitter … This upsets me. Family First & Bob McKoskrie are horrendous. They have no idea what…

  • Image of the day: How to deny men’s sexism

    From the amazing Lauredhel at Hoyden About Town, in the style of Joanna Russ:

  • Bob McCoskrie can get in the river

    Two years after winning the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Award, Ted Dawe’s Into the River is now temporarily banned, because Bob McCoskrie hates fun. There’s something in the way we…

  • No, YOU get a sense of humour

    Henry Denton: You Brits really don’t have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something’s funny, sir. – Gosford Park Two stories popped up on my Twitter…