Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Children

  • 10 things you could do instead of a sugar tax

    It’s sugar tax season again, when leftwing politicians hem and haw about increasing the costs of food they don’t like in order to coerce people to be healthier. Are you…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on weight, food and pregnancy

    The “Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup” is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: I got the inside running on this…

  • Today in dehumanizing fat people

    Check out this glorious first sentence in an article about a health policy announcement: The Government is preparing to make a major announcement in the fight against obesity, as it…

  • Anne Tolley’s next abhorrent idea: forced sterilization of poor people

    It’s going to be incredibly difficult not to Godwin the hell out of this one, people. Appearing on TVOne’s Q+A programme this morning, Social Development minister Anne Tolley would not…

  • The death-throes of patriarchy

    Another day, another panic-mongering, deceptive, anti-social headline from Family First, as reported on Twitter … This upsets me. Family First & Bob McKoskrie are horrendous. They have no idea what…