Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • Laurel Hubbard is a trailblazer

    Laurel Hubbard has qualified to represent New Zealand at the next Olympics (whenever or wherever those happen) in women’s weightlifting. Virtually no one would have paid any attention to this…

  • Baby talk 3: the eggs, the lube, the triggering

    Read the full Baby Talk series So we took a bit of an unscheduled posting hiatus there; but more on that later. Today we’re talking eggs, lube, and triggers. Just…

  • Benefits, Budgets and b***s***

    Are they going to do it? At long last, isthe Labour government going to significantly increase base benefits and ensure that people actually have enough to live on, reversing the…

  • Baby talk: the needles

    Read the full Baby Talk series (Content note: infertility, IVF, injections) I definitely didn’t plan it this way, but here we are carrying on with the anniversaries: because it was…

  • 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…