Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Labour, identity, class and winning

    Andrew Little’s speech to conference has had great feedback, topping off a pretty good weekend for the party. I was there when he delivered it, and the response in the…

  • Being a both/and party

    The fantastic Maryan Street was awarded life membership at the Labour Party annual conference yesterday, and in her speech she said some things which really rang true for me. She…

  • The myth of language policing

    This post has been sitting in draft for a while, but it’s one of those topics which comes up again and again, and will continue to do so for eternity:…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup: THAT Tony Veitch post

    The “Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup” is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: I already posted yesterday on why Tony Veitch remains…

  • The growth of the medicinal marijuana issue

    An American I was talking to the other week had seen the media coverage of Helen Kelly’s raising of the medicinal marijuana issue, and noted that marijuana is already being…