Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Inspiration for the day: Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders

    A great late-night YouTube find: Killer Mike of Run The Jewels talks to Bernie Sanders about politics, social justice, inequality. The six-parter starts here: My favourite quote, from part 2:…

  • AFFCO, t-shirts, and the “jobs jobs jobs” mantra

    Talley’s AFFCO have literally stood down five people from going to work wearing union t-shirts: AFFCO said the t-shirts, with the slogan ‘Jobs that count’ on the front and ‘Meat…

  • NZ’s top quotes of 2015

    Here we go again. Massey University is running a poll on the NZ Quote of the Year and the list of finalists is … well … Or as Holly Walker…

  • Cranium’s Christmas sign: why is mainstream Kiwi culture so unfunny?

    [Content note: transphobia, insincere apologies] I’ve posted before about the paradox which occurs when privileged types – usually middle-aged white dudes – tell incredibly unfunny, bigoted jokes, and then whinge…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Today (well, tomorrow our time) the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. My first exposure to this holiday was through the movie Addams Family Values, and I think it was pretty comprehensive.…