Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Sex and gender

  • What did she expect?

    The facts are this: a young woman went to Rhythm & Vines. A young man there decided to grope her. She fought back. It was caught on video. And then…

  • The lessons from the 2017 election … so far

    Hey, we still don’t have a government! Nevertheless, the Wellington Fabians got together last night to hear Jane Clifton, Morgan Godfery, Mike Smith and me talk about the election aftermath.…

  • Who has to apologise?

    An excellent piece by Maddie Holden at The Spinoff on the sexism of the 2017 election got me thinking. She writes: Enter Metiria Turei. We’re all familiar with the story…

  • Round-up: how we will remember Metiria Turei as Greens co-leader

    As a follow-up to my (incredibly, overwhelming well-read!) post from Wednesday, Thank you Metiria, I wrote this for Radio NZ: I will remember Metiria Turei differently. I will remember people…

  • Thank you, Metiria.

    It was always a possibility in the back of my mind that Metiria Turei’s admission of benefit fraud – and the absolute flood of hatred, hypocrisy, bullying and mucky insinuations…