Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: human rights

  • Puberty blockers

    The text of my submission to the Ministry of Health’s unnecessary and politicised review of the use of puberty blockers for young trans and nonbinary people in Aotearoa.


  • Why citizens’ assemblies work

    Citizens’ assemblies are being held up as the solution to all society’s divisive issues, but nobody’s talking about what really makes them successful.


  • Mother’s Day

    (Content note: infertility, mental health, motherhood) My first post about our ~parenting journey~ is here. Mother’s Day has never been the most problematic artificially-hyped-to-sell-stuff-parental-celebration holiday for me. I grew up…


  • Do Good Thursday: End solitary confinement

    People Against Prisons Aotearoa (formerly No Pride in Prisons) are campaigning to end solitary confinement in New Zealand prisons – or as Corrections insists on referring to it in the…


  • That’s just, like, your legal opinion, man

    Almost nothing irritates me like the way politics is reduced to a series of “they saids” – as though nothing is factual, everything is relative, and it’s all about the…