Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • Midweek lunch break

    In honour of Mitt Romney possibly/probably/definitely running for President again, a flashback to the 2012 US elections care of Bad Lip Reading.   (Just because some people really don’t get…

  • Rape culture and Jane Austen

    Another study has shown what many feminists and progressive activists have known for a while: that for a lot of very normal people, there’s a lot of confusion about what…

  • Connecting the dots on satire, Parliament, and dirty politics

    Danyl McLauchlan has a great suggestion for NZ politicians who really want to show their dedication to freedom of speech and the press in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo…

  • Watching our language on mental illness and disability

    [Content note: ableist language] It was probably inevitable that in a post on The Standard about the differences in commentary style between leftwing and rightwing blogs, someone would come along…

  • QOTD: What do words even mean?

    Quote of the day, from Every Internet Conversation With Dudes, Ever: Woman: Let’s talk about consent. Dude: What does “consent” mean? What do words mean? “Yes?” “No?” What does anything mean?…