Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Alesha, Who Smiles At Death and smashes geek stereotypes

    I’ve started using the word “nerd” to describe myself more and more recently. I used to be firmly a “geek”, because geeks were cool and nerds were those awkward people…

  • QOTD: Mansplaining in Macquarie

    Macquarie Dictionary has declared “mansplaining” to be its word of the year, and some people aren’t happy about that. Amy Gray responds in The Guardian: Of course there are criticisms…

  • Waitangi Day

    Today’s a day to reflect on our nation’s history, in a strictly non-political family-friendly way, of course. But just in case some racist wankers decide to be extra-non-political on the pages…

  • The state of the nation

    I probably don’t have a lot to add to what’s already been said about Andrew Little’s state of the nation speech this morning. It was sensible and forward-looking – an…

  • QOTD: Invasion Day

    Amy McQuire in The Guardian talks about what today means for indigenous Australians: My preferred name for 26 January, however, was one of its earliest – the day of mourning. On this…