Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • How the Dirty Politics machine continues to do its work

    “There are a few basic propositions with negative campaigning that are worth knowing about. It lowers turnout, favours the right more than the left as the right continue to turn…


  • The personal impact of fat-hatred

    I woke up yesterday looking forward to a relaxing fourth-day-of-a-long-weekend. And one of the first things I saw on Twitter was an article which panickedly declared that   And I…


  • QOTD: Supreme hubris from POAL CEO Tony Gibson

    On Q&A yesterday, Ports of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson said regarding their planned – and thoroughly rebuffed by the community – wharf extensions: “I don’t think we’re arrogant as a…


  • The definition of irony …

    … surely, must be Peter Dunne complaining (a) that the government hasn’t fulfilled its promises to him and (b) about the security of metadata: “The question that the Law Commission…


  • Mils Muliaina, rape culture, and sharpening my pitchfork

    The news that a former All Black had been arrested in connection with a sexual assault case did not surprise me in the slightest. It cannot surprise anyone who pays…