Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Media

  • Earworm for the day: Ruth Mundy

    Here’s the song Ruth Mundy performed at the Wellington candlelight vigil for refugees last Friday. Liable to make you cry and/or incandescent with righteous fury about the way the powers…

  • Midweek lunch break

    Here’s Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe with every TV news report on the economy rolled into one.

  • 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…

  • We all care

    [Content note: discussion of dead children, Syrian refugee crisis – no images] I haven’t seen a single person genuinely react to the harrowing photo of Aylan Kurdi – or any…

  • Earworm for the day: Skrillex

    Not my usual musical genre of choice … This song has been stuck in my head since I finally finished the main storyline of Far Cry 3 – it’s the…