Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Literature

  • Unity: a poem inspired by Martyn Bradbury

    [A point of clarification: this poem does not represent my views. Every line is a direct quote from Martyn Bradbury’s blogs over the past years. This post is intended to…


  • Lifehack: read more Pratchett

    Given the name and origins of this blog I was honour-bound to link to this io9 article about 10 Discworld quotes you’ll desperately need for the next four years: There…


  • Lefty book reviews: Don’t Buy It

    Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review seems redundant, because literally every person I’ve encountered in the past…


  • Bob McCoskrie can get in the river

    Two years after winning the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Award, Ted Dawe’s Into the River is now temporarily banned, because Bob McCoskrie hates fun. There’s something in the way we…


  • Deborah Russell on Jane Austen, rape culture and John Key

    Great feminist minds do think alike – back in January I posted a classic quote from Pride and Prejudice which shows just how entrenched the idea of “a woman says…