Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Roastbusters second report: surprising yet no surprise

    [Content note: sexual violence, police inaction] Other bloggers have already posted pretty comprehensive reviews of the second IPCA report into the Roastbusters debacle. As summarised by Danyl at Dim-Post: Seven…

  • The constant threat

    [Content note: sexual assault, victim-blaming, Julian Assange] With the news that Julian Assange will now be questioned in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he’s taken refuge since 2012 after Swedish…

  • QOTD: Moata Tamaira on PC gone mad

    A Christchurch city councillor has thoroughly embarrassed himself defending a terrible, whitewashed publicity campaign on the grounds that anyone who complains just hates freedom and is probably a reverse racist,…

  • Language is power

    Two otherwise-unconnected stories tell us a lot about how our perceptions and attitudes can be deliberately manipulated with the use of language: At The Intercept, The Orwellian re-branding of “mass…

  • Me on feminism in 2015 at The Wireless

    I was most honoured to be involved in a podcast for The Wireless this week, talking about International Women’s Day and what being a feminist means in 2015. My co-panellists…