Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • The government’s housing message dilemma

    John Key was across the media yesterday, trying to tamp down suggestions the Budget would do anything at all to address the housing “issue” which everyone else in New Zealand…

  • 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…

  • Stop letting the side down with your fat hate

    This post has been knocking around in my head for a while but it’s timely after another round of The Great Liberal Fat-Hating Sugar Tax “Debate” has played out on…

  • 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…