Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Sunday reads

    A few pieces that caught my eye this week. Bec Shaw: Fat of the Furious I couldn’t write about what happened at the time because I felt so despairing when…

  • The truth behind the lobbyists who want the right to hit kids

    New Zealand First’s Tracey Martin was on Q&A on the weekend floating the idea of a referendum on the old section 59 of the Crimes Act, i.e. the one about…

  • Stop calling it a false flag

    [Content note: discussion of Manchester bombing and responses to it.] It happened again. It took all of ten minutes after I saw news of the Manchester bombing online for some…

  • Taxes, greed and David Seymour

    Fleshing out one of my recent Twitter rants, kicked off by this tragic bit of capitalist propaganda from the “leader” of the ACT “Party”: It's Tax Freedom Day. In other…

  • I don’t want to lift children out of poverty

    I’ve been thinking more about how we frame our messages this election year, and I’ve realised something pretty significant. I don’t want to lift children out of poverty. Because poverty…