Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Children

  • We all care

    [Content note: discussion of dead children, Syrian refugee crisis – no images] I haven’t seen a single person genuinely react to the harrowing photo of Aylan Kurdi – or any…

  • Graphic images and clicktivism

    [Content note: discussion of dead children, refugees – no images] There’s a regular discussion which crops up around trigger warnings, graphic images, and social media. It appeared yesterday when an…

  • Children’s wellbeing is more important than money

    Not that our Prime Minister thinks so: John Key told Morning Report today [Child, Youth and Family] would undergo a structural overhaul following a review by the senior public servant Paula…

  • Our kids are still getting sick in unhealthy homes

    Andrew Little put the hard word on John Key over housing in Question Time yesterday: Prime Minister John Key implied that mould problems in some Housing New Zealand homes could…

  • Anne Tolley should apologise for her own words, if not decades of abuse

    (Content note: child abuse, minimisation of violence against children) The question of public apologies by governments for the wrongs of the past is always contentious. I like to think of…