Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Government

  • Don’t meet the people where they are

    It has been a ridiculously busy week, dear readers. On Wednesday we celebrated the launch of E tū, the new union formed from the merger of the EPMU and SFWU.…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on the TPP being signed

    The “Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup” is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: Yesterday in the wee hours of the…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on the incarceration of trans women in male prisons

    The “Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup” is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: [Content note: transphobia, sexual assault, corrections] It…

  • The myth of focusing on front line services

    I saw a shocking thing on Twitter yesterday: "Let's put this to rest, this is a state responsibility". @AnneTolleyMP rules out more outsourcing of frontline cyf services — Newshub Nation…

  • Centrism and Canada

    I’m not an expert on Canadian politics, so the only thing I have to go on regarding its New Democratic Party is what Rob Salmond says in his latest argument on…