Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Wellbeing

  • Puberty blockers

    The text of my submission to the Ministry of Health’s unnecessary and politicised review of the use of puberty blockers for young trans and nonbinary people in Aotearoa.

  • End conversion therapy in Aotearoa

    I’ve just hit “send” on my submission to the Justice Select Committee on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill – also known as the “conversion therapy ban”, except it’s not…

  • Mother’s Day

    (Content note: infertility, mental health, motherhood) My first post about our ~parenting journey~ is here. Mother’s Day has never been the most problematic artificially-hyped-to-sell-stuff-parental-celebration holiday for me. I grew up…

  • Do Good Thursday: mental health

    This week for Do Good Thursday I’m boosting this fantastic post by Jessica McAllen about the organisations who work bloody hard filling in the gaps in our under-funded, under-resourced mental…

  • How we talk about tax: the shiftless hordes and the hard-working rich

    This is how Stuff chose to headline an article about the way income tax is paid in New Zealand: On the Facebook thumbnail, it was even worse: (Congratulations, baby, you’re…