Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • 2014 in review – weetbix and elections

    I started Boots Theory on 1 February this year, and since then it’s seen nearly 71 posts (72 now!), 5,000 visitors, and 7,500 pageviews. Not a bad start for a…

  • Good old-fashioned Kiwi values

    [Content warning: contains links to and quotes from violent and anti-Muslim hate speech.] David Farrar has some … interesting ideas about how to tighten up immigration policy in the wake…

  • (Repost) The end of the inequality debate?

    Originally posted at On The Left. Inequality has become a central political issue in New Zealand and around the world. But there’s always been some argument, from the right, that…

  • (Repost) Informed consent: As simple as asking?

    This post originally appeared at On The Left. The experience of a woman who had an IUCD inserted without her knowledge shows that there’s still a long way to go…

  • Let slip the dogwhistles of war

    In discussions, potential possibility, no commitment, carrying out a scoping mission – the plan to send NZ military forces to Iraq to combat Islamic State is only the vaguest of…