Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Labour

  • Supporting all the colours of the rainbow

    [Content note: this post deals with issues around gender, transphobia and gender policing. Stay safe.] In utter defiance of the Prime Minister’s insistence that the left doesn’t want to have…


  • The opening addresses of Election 2014

    (Updated: more links to videos for your viewing pleasure) Last night the opening party political addresses were broadcast on TV One, simultaneous with an All Blacks match and a live-tweeted…


  • Looking at the big policy picture

    (This was originally posted at The Standard.) Despite John Key’s key message du jour, the parties of the Opposition are talking policy. A (totally unscientific) look at party websites reveals…


  • The bottomless Labour-Green divide

    Mea culpa. It’s a bit of a Buzzfeed-style clickbait headline, but it’s also a political meme which I really wish we could put out to pasture. It seems like every…


  • Not the war on men you’re looking for

    It’s headline news: Labour supports re-starting a Law Commission review initiated by Simon Power to investigate possible changes in our judicial system including the option of adopting an inquisitorial approach in cases of…