Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: healthcare

  • Baby talk: the needles

    Read the full Baby Talk series (Content note: infertility, IVF, injections) I definitely didn’t plan it this way, but here we are carrying on with the anniversaries: because it was…


  • A year ago today

    Read the full Baby Talk series (Content note: infertility, IVF, fatphobia) A year ago today, my partner and I “properly” began the journey to become parents. We’d been on the…


  • Sunday reads

    Alison Chandra: I shared my toddler’s hospital bill on Twitter. First came supporters — then death threats. I told our story the same way I always do, softening the hard…


  • 10 things you could do instead of a sugar tax

    It’s sugar tax season again, when leftwing politicians hem and haw about increasing the costs of food they don’t like in order to coerce people to be healthier. Are you…


  • Midwives deserve equal pay

    It’s another one of those less-easy-to-grasp pay equity cases: the College of Midwives has filed a discrimination suit on the basis that midwives aren’t paid as well as equivalently-skilled/trained/responsible workers…