Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Women of #nzpol: still fighting rape culture in 2016

    The women-of-#nzpol roundup is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: Well, 2016 is definitely not going to be the year…

  • Building a mass movement

    [Content note: mentions of transphobia, sexual violence and violence against people of colour] This was a line of thought which fell out of yesterday’s post, but that was getting quite…

  • I’ll drop identity politics when you present a solution

    Life isn’t simple. Capitalism isn’t simple. And the ways we talk about oppression aren’t simple. Yet several times this week (this month, this year, this lifetime) I’ve seen concepts about…

  • Move left to win? Move left to win!

    Via my personal idol Anat Shenker-Osorio, an interesting article from The Atlantic on the Working Families Party, who are finding fascinating new ways to drag the political conversation back to…

  • The worst sexism ever

    Back in 2011, Skepchick founder Rebecca Watson made some really mild comments about a dude’s inappropriate behaviour at a conference. Things blew up, especially once the prince of Internet Atheism,…