Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Health

  • Nick Smith stands by slumlords, basically

    Today Andrew Little’s Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill will get its first reading in Parliament. It requires all tenancy agreements to guarantee that the property being let meets minimum standards for…

  • How we talk about industrial action

    There’s a problem with the way we talk about working people who take industrial action. The problem is we don’t talk about them at all. Check out the framing of…

  • Untroll Thursday: Captain Awkward

    Inspired by Megan MacKay, Thursdays are #UnTrollTheInternet Day, when we uplift the positive stuff on the internet to remind ourselves that this amazing global platform we share doesn’t have to…

  • The enduring myths of fat and weight loss

    A great summary of our society’s myths about fatness, weight loss and health from Big Fat Science, just as we hit the peak “starting a diet for the New Year”…

  • The despair of “obesity battlers”

    A few tweets I made this morning after seeing this lamentation on Radio NZ’s website: https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/669985558492397568 This is an idea I’ve had rattling around in my head for a while…