Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Race and colonialism

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Today (well, tomorrow our time) the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. My first exposure to this holiday was through the movie Addams Family Values, and I think it was pretty comprehensive.…


  • Labour, identity, class and winning

    Andrew Little’s speech to conference has had great feedback, topping off a pretty good weekend for the party. I was there when he delivered it, and the response in the…


  • Being a both/and party

    The fantastic Maryan Street was awarded life membership at the Labour Party annual conference yesterday, and in her speech she said some things which really rang true for me. She…


  • Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup: Chris Brown’s tour

    The “Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup” is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: Yesterday’s roundup went well, so here’s another.…


  • When are identities political?

    Morgan Godfery has a great post up at The Ruminator about the Auckland housing/Chinese surnames story. His last paragraph inspired me to start jotting down notes for this post on…