Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Media

  • QOTD: What do words even mean?

    Quote of the day, from Every Internet Conversation With Dudes, Ever: Woman: Let’s talk about consent. Dude: What does “consent” mean? What do words mean? “Yes?” “No?” What does anything mean?…

  • QOTD: Morgan G on G Morgan and the Treaty

    From Gareth Morgan and the Pākehā Pathology at Maui Street: Thus the burden of compromise always falls to Māori – we can push only for what is compatible with their system –…

  • How to respond to Charlie Hebdo?

    Twelve people have died in the attack on French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo, and the response from many people – from a New Zealand perspective fairly divorced from the immediate…

  • Midweek lunch break

    I know heaps of people are back at work this week, so if you’re having trouble making it through the first hump day of 2015, here’s a super-irritating earworm for…

  • The meaning of dirty politics

    One of the strategies of the right in NZ politics has been to take any complaint levelled against them – of corruption, of malpractice, of conspiracy – and reduce it…