Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Make the bludgers pay their fair share

    Few things in this world make me eyeroll as strongly as the quibblers who jump up whenever you point out the discrepancy between the amount of money lost to benefit…

  • Migration, taps and growing pains

    I keep promising to review Anat Shenker-Osorio’s book Don’t Buy It. I’m getting there, I promise. My copy is almost more Post-It Note than paper at the moment. But there’s…

  • Where those Kiwimeter questions came from

    TVNZ’s Kiwimeter quiz has caused a lot of conversation. I don’t call it a “survey” because that seems like far too serious a title for something which slots respondents into…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup: International Women’s Day

    Yesterday was International [Working] Women’s Day, and NZ Twitter celebrated it in appropriate fashion by multi-tasking the shit out of it. We talked aaaaaaaaaaall the issues: Declaring that women presenting…

  • The Epsom Paradox

    After watching several of my Twitter buddies disbelievingly live-tweet the ridiculous proceedings around the Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan the other night, I had some thoughts. The good folks of Twitter…