Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • Nicola Young’s scary “solution” to people begging in Wellington

    [Content note: dehumanizing language about homeless/poor people, classism] As we stand there are four candidates confirmed running for the mayoralty of Wellington – and one of them is Nicola Young,…

  • Kim Kardashian and the capitalist apocalypse

    I got a little poetical on the old Twitter yesterday, thinking about the way people dismiss Kim Kardashian as trivial. Here’s the Storify, for posterity.

  • The importance of words

    Expanding on some thoughts I had on Twitter. It’s an interesting phrase, “language policing”. We all know what the police are. Even people with the good fortune/whiteness to have mainly…

  • Make the bludgers pay their fair share

    Few things in this world make me eyeroll as strongly as the quibblers who jump up whenever you point out the discrepancy between the amount of money lost to benefit…

  • Easter trading

    Easter Sunday is one of the three-and-a-half days a year when (most) shops have to be closed. That could be changing. From Denise Roche of the Greens: The new rules…