Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: dogwhistles

  • 2017 rewind: The immigration “debate”

    Boy, this issue never goes away. Wait, am I talking about toxic immigration narratives, or mainstream media pundit-dudes making prats of themselves? Originally published 8 October 2017 There were a…

  • The immigration “debate”

    There were a few drafts of this post, as I struggled with how to address Duncan Garner’s blatantly, deliberately, openly, provocatively racist column (no one makes that much effort saying…

  • Migration, taps and growing pains

    I keep promising to review Anat Shenker-Osorio’s book Don’t Buy It. I’m getting there, I promise. My copy is almost more Post-It Note than paper at the moment. But there’s…

  • 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…