Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • The surplus lie

    Andrew Little delivered his pre-Budget speech in Wellington yesterday, and the pullquote everyone’s talking about was some seriously no-nonsense stuff: …[National’s] promise was clear. Their good economic stewardship would see us in…

  • Improve your lexicon: lame

    I’m on a never-ending quest to improve my vocabulary – both by expanding it, and by getting rid of some of the more objectionable language which we all use without…

  • Newsflash: Men aren’t wolves

    One of the weird paradoxes of patriarchy is the idea that on the one hand, men are naturally the dominant group in society because they’re more rational, have bigger brains,…

  • Support Wellington Rape Crisis this week

    (Full disclosure: I’m a member of the WRC governance group on a voluntary and unpaid basis.) This week is Wellington Rape Crisis’ annual appeal. Despite being an organisation which provides…

  • Back to the future: Brian Easton on benefit abatement rates

    Hat-tip to Sarah Wilson on Twitter for linking to this 1995 piece by Brian Easton on the “unintended” consequences of abating people’s benefits when they get part-time work – to…