Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Government

  • How to suppress feminist voices on domestic violence

    With apologies to Joanna Russ.  Content note: domestic violence, sexism. Domestic violence isn’t gendered. Shut up. Domestic violence is gendered, but it’s biology – men are naturally stronger, bigger, and…

  • Tony Veitch isn’t repentant, he’s making it worse

    [Content note: discuss of intimate partner violence and apologism] Tony Veitch, noted violent unremorseful dude, had a piece on his unremorse published in the Herald on Mother’s Day, for editorial…

  • Why would progressives vote for Trump?

    [A note in hindsight: this post was published in April 2016, a good amount of time before it became crystal clear that Trump is a goddamned Nazi-enabling rule-of-law-trashing fascist. And…

  • Nobody is entitled to votes

    I caught the tail-end of a conversation on Twitter yesterday about the presidential primaries in the US, and the mathematical impossibility of Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination. The case…

  • It’s not personal, it’s just business

    Via Radio NZ: The Labour Party has asked the Auditor-General to investigate the awarding of a resort management contract in Niue to one of the National Party’s biggest donors. It’s…