Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: National

  • Who is the left’s Rodney Hide?

    I had some thoughts on Rodney Hide’s latest column in the Herald on Sunday: https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/655485977780056064 https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/655486540756336640 And they kept developing so I figured I had the makings of a blog…

  • Today in dehumanizing fat people

    Check out this glorious first sentence in an article about a health policy announcement: The Government is preparing to make a major announcement in the fight against obesity, as it…

  • Anne Tolley says another unbelievably gross thing

    At this point, dear readers, I’m starting to ask myself if Anne Tolley is either a masterful piece of anti-Tory performance art, or sacrificing her own humanity in order to…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on forced contraception for beneficiaries

    A few months ago I suggested that I should do a woman-only Twitter round-up on topical issues, in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also…

  • Anne Tolley’s next abhorrent idea: forced sterilization of poor people

    It’s going to be incredibly difficult not to Godwin the hell out of this one, people. Appearing on TVOne’s Q+A programme this morning, Social Development minister Anne Tolley would not…