Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Culture

  • QOTD: Pratchett on privilege

    The parents of two pupils from St Bede’s College got a court injunction so their sons could row in a competition. The school had cut them from the team after they…

  • QOTD: Aditya Mukerjee on the second-class languages of Unicode

    At Model View Culture, an article hilariously/depressingly entitled “I Can Text You a Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name“: The very first version of the Unicode standard…

  • The problem with paleo

    Jason Wilson has a fascinating post up at The Guardian discussing some of the problems with the paleo “lifestyle” which is currently very en vogue: The assumptions underpinning paleo have…

  • The constant threat

    [Content note: sexual assault, victim-blaming, Julian Assange] With the news that Julian Assange will now be questioned in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he’s taken refuge since 2012 after Swedish…

  • QOTD: Moata Tamaira on PC gone mad

    A Christchurch city councillor has thoroughly embarrassed himself defending a terrible, whitewashed publicity campaign on the grounds that anyone who complains just hates freedom and is probably a reverse racist,…