Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Violence against women

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on the incarceration of trans women in male prisons

    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: [Content note: transphobia, sexual assault, corrections] It…

  • Important public message: a sense of entitlement isn’t love

    There’s a hugely important message in this article from the Herald about people (most often men) who kill their partners (most often women). “These are not crimes of love, these…

  • 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.…

  • Wacky 80s hijinks

    (Content note: sexual assault, pranking) But don’t worry, dudes, they don’t even use the words “rape culture”.

  • Heartless government

    A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have. Last August, Emma-Lita Bourne died of pneumonia because the state house her family lived in…