Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • When are identities political?

    Morgan Godfery has a great post up at The Ruminator about the Auckland housing/Chinese surnames story. His last paragraph inspired me to start jotting down notes for this post on…

  • Not the “end to zero hour contracts” you were looking for

    We have two options before us, New Zealand. Either Michael Woodhouse still hasn’t had anyone explain the difference between zero hour contracts – which are exploitative trash – and casual…

  • Labour’s principles redux

    Sometimes you’re wrong in a way which completely proves the point you were making! So it was with yesterday’s post, lamenting the lack of a clear set of principles for…

  • “Labour values” are more than a talking point

    If there’s a sure bet in New Zealand politics (besides “don’t rule out Winston”) it’s this: when a Labour candidate wants to reassure a Labour audience that they’ve got the…

  • Damn right I’m angry

    It’s funny (or depending on your point of view, completely predictable) how often feminist analysis and leftwing analysis overlap. There’s a term: “tone argument”. It refers to the regular pleas…