Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Tony Veitch is a danger to women

    [Content note: violence against women, intimate partner violence, graphic images] Things you can see on Tony Veitch’s Facebook page right now This image, shared by Tony Veitch himself: This comment by Tony…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on weight, food and pregnancy

    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 got the inside running on this…

  • Who is the left’s Rodney Hide?

    I had some thoughts on Rodney Hide’s latest column in the Herald on Sunday: https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/655485977780056064 https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/655486540756336640 And they kept developing so I figured I had the makings of a blog…

  • The myth of hiring on merit: James Shaw at the CTU conference

    Green co-leader James Shaw announced at the CTU conference last week that in any future government, when the Greens are at the Cabinet table, at least half of their seats…

  • Today in dehumanizing fat people

    Check out this glorious first sentence in an article about a health policy announcement: The Government is preparing to make a major announcement in the fight against obesity, as it…