Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Sex and gender

  • Discrimination isn’t accidental

    This is probably not surprising to any women who are in academia: New research show there’s a considerable gap between men and women when it comes to being promoted to…

  • How to suppress feminist voices on domestic violence

    With apologies to Joanna Russ.  Content note: domestic violence, sexism. Domestic violence isn’t gendered. Shut up. Domestic violence is gendered, but it’s biology – men are naturally stronger, bigger, and…

  • When the creeper is your mate

    Alex Casey and Duncan Greive at The Spinoff have written a phenomenal article about sexual creepiness and exploitation of young women, specifically by Andrew Tidball of Cheese on Toast and…

  • Kim Kardashian and the capitalist apocalypse

    I got a little poetical on the old Twitter yesterday, thinking about the way people dismiss Kim Kardashian as trivial. Here’s the Storify, for posterity.

  • The importance of words

    Expanding on some thoughts I had on Twitter. It’s an interesting phrase, “language policing”. We all know what the police are. Even people with the good fortune/whiteness to have mainly…