Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Children

  • Our assumptions about work and workers

    Yesterday I posted about sexist discrimination in the workplace, and noted: So there’s the gendered, identity-politics side of the argument. But there’s a slightly broader set of assumptions in play,…

  • Sexism, babies, and our assumptions about work

    It’s 2015, and we’re constantly told that sexism is over, feminism has had its day, and would you nagging witches please just simmer down already? And then this happens: An…

  • Costly government

    I wrote yesterday about our heartless, penny-pinching government, which emphasises Getting To Surplus at all costs even if that means kids dying in cold state houses. This is the true…

  • Heartless government

    A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have. Last August, Emma-Lita Bourne died of pneumonia because the state house her family lived in…

  • Healthy, safe housing is a basic human right

    [Content note: death of a child] The Greens have been calling for a “Warrant of Fitness” on all rental properties for a while, and the need for one has been…