Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Sex and reproduction

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on weight, food and pregnancy

    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: I got the inside running on this…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on forced contraception for beneficiaries

    A few months ago I suggested that I should do a woman-only Twitter round-up on topical issues, in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also…

  • Anne Tolley’s next abhorrent idea: forced sterilization of poor people

    It’s going to be incredibly difficult not to Godwin the hell out of this one, people. Appearing on TVOne’s Q+A programme this morning, Social Development minister Anne Tolley would not…

  • 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…

  • Midwives deserve equal pay

    It’s another one of those less-easy-to-grasp pay equity cases: the College of Midwives has filed a discrimination suit on the basis that midwives aren’t paid as well as equivalently-skilled/trained/responsible workers…