Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Words have meanings?

    A beautiful piece from Clarke & Dawe which is always relevant to politics in Aussie and NZ, but perhaps especially so in a week when a government which campaigned on…


  • Hekia Parata challenges the gender pay gap!

    It’s great to see a senior Government Minister addressing serious issues of inequality and structural discrimination in one of our most important professions: “I’m interested in how we attract the…


  • Improve your lexicon: lame

    I’m on a never-ending quest to improve my vocabulary – both by expanding it, and by getting rid of some of the more objectionable language which we all use without…


  • Newsflash: Men aren’t wolves

    One of the weird paradoxes of patriarchy is the idea that on the one hand, men are naturally the dominant group in society because they’re more rational, have bigger brains,…


  • Support Wellington Rape Crisis this week

    (Full disclosure: I’m a member of the WRC governance group on a voluntary and unpaid basis.) This week is Wellington Rape Crisis’ annual appeal. Despite being an organisation which provides…