Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Welfare

19 May 2021

Benefits, Budgets and b***s***

Are they going to do it? At long last, isthe Labour government going to significantly increase base benefits and ensure that people actually have enough to live on, reversing the…
4 February 2018

Marama Davidson’s campaign launch

I was beyond excited to see Marama Davidson stand up to announce her bid for the co-leadership of the Greens. I’ve been a Marama fan for an age, so I…
21 January 2018

2017 rewind: Thank you, Metiria.

Well, here it is. No surprise that this was the most-read post on Boots Theory last year, because Metiria Turei’s “downfall” and resignation was by far one of the most…
19 January 2018

2017 rewind: I don’t want to lift children out of poverty

The second-most-read post from last year addresses one of my favourite things: how to change the political language we use to make our messages more powerful. Labour have persisted with…
5 January 2018

2017 rewind: #IamMetiria is changing our politics and it’s about damn time

Metiria Turei’s revelation that she had misled Work and Income as a young solo mum was made on 16 July 2017. Less than a month later she resigned as Greens…