Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Sex and gender

  • 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…

  • QOTD: Aunty Helen on women, leadership and NZ

    Great interview of our former Prime Minister in the Sunday Star-Times yesterday, including these gems on the campaign to elect a woman Secretary-General of the UN: “I’m of the view…

  • Older white men paid double young ethnic women

    That’s not my headline. That’s Stuff’s business section’s headline. Middle-aged white men might be sick of being cast as villains, but a report suggests they should check their privilege. And…

  • Improve your lexicon: have some balls

    I’m on a never-ending quest to improve my vocabulary – both by expanding it, and by getting rid of some of the more objectionable, oppressive language which we all use…

  • Our assumptions about work and workers

    Yesterday I posted about sexist discrimination in the workplace, and noted: So there’s the gendered, identity-politics side of the argument. But there’s a slightly broader set of assumptions in play,…