Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Stop letting the side down with your fat hate

    This post has been knocking around in my head for a while but it’s timely after another round of The Great Liberal Fat-Hating Sugar Tax “Debate” has played out on…

  • Nick Smith stands by slumlords, basically

    Today Andrew Little’s Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill will get its first reading in Parliament. It requires all tenancy agreements to guarantee that the property being let meets minimum standards for…

  • When the creeper is your mate

    Alex Casey and Duncan Greive at The Spinoff have written a phenomenal article about sexual creepiness and exploitation of young women, specifically by Andrew Tidball of Cheese on Toast and…

  • Kim Kardashian and the capitalist apocalypse

    I got a little poetical on the old Twitter yesterday, thinking about the way people dismiss Kim Kardashian as trivial. Here’s the Storify, for posterity.

  • The importance of words

    Expanding on some thoughts I had on Twitter. It’s an interesting phrase, “language policing”. We all know what the police are. Even people with the good fortune/whiteness to have mainly…