Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: democracy

  • Nobody is entitled to votes

    I caught the tail-end of a conversation on Twitter yesterday about the presidential primaries in the US, and the mathematical impossibility of Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination. The case…

  • Living in a bubble

    This was going to be a tweet, or probably a series of tweets, but you all know how I get. It’s been going on for a while, but especially after…

  • The flag and democracy

    The results of the first flag referendum has really thrown up some bizarre perspectives on democracy in New Zealand. Like the person I jostled with on a mutual friend’s Facebook…

  • Flag referendum 1

    I’m a politics nerd, so of course I was excited to receive my voting papers in the mail for the first part of the flag referendum – despite strongly disagreeing…

  • Getting the flag we want

    I admit I’m a latecomer on the Red Peak bandwagon. It’s not Red Peak’s fault. It’s a fine flag. https://twitter.com/AJemaineClement/status/639928979210670080 One funny little irony is that the anti-Red Peak criticism…