Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • The dogwhistling of the Treaty

    Gareth Morgan has a four-part series in the Herald this month in a thinly-veiled ad campaign for his new book, Are we there yet? The future of the Treaty of…

  • Good old-fashioned Kiwi values

    [Content warning: contains links to and quotes from violent and anti-Muslim hate speech.] David Farrar has some … interesting ideas about how to tighten up immigration policy in the wake…

  • (Repost) Informed consent: As simple as asking?

    This post originally appeared at On The Left. The experience of a woman who had an IUCD inserted without her knowledge shows that there’s still a long way to go…

  • Louise Upston and beauty pageants

    There’s a lot to unpack in our Minister of Women’s Affairs comments on beauty pageants and feminism, as reported in Stuff. She praises beauty pageants for giving young women (sorry,…

  • Repost: Life isn’t fair. But it should be.

    (Originally posted at On The Left.) I was not an angelic child. My mother has retconned her memory of my early years since I became an adult, and my grandmother…