Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: healthcare

  • Costly government

    I wrote yesterday about our heartless, penny-pinching government, which emphasises Getting To Surplus at all costs even if that means kids dying in cold state houses. This is the true…

  • The personal impact of fat-hatred

    I woke up yesterday looking forward to a relaxing fourth-day-of-a-long-weekend. And one of the first things I saw on Twitter was an article which panickedly declared that   And I…

  • QOTD: Linda Bacon on bariatric surgery

    Content note: surgery, complications, fat-hate Because completely coincidentally, a number of surgeons who perform bariatric surgery (“stomach stapling” to your unmedical layperson) are suddenly in the media clamouring for public…

  • Three more years

    This election result is not the end of the world for me. I don’t have kids. I don’t have to worry about whether their school will be closed, or privatised,…