Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: journalism

  • The gender politics are coming

    There is a spectre haunting New Zealand men. The spectre of a #MeToo witchhunt, which is what happens when women act like witches, which isn’t sexist, it’s just a historic…

  • 2017 rewind: Thank you, Metiria.

    Well, here it is. No surprise that this was the most-read post on Boots Theory last year, because Metiria Turei’s “downfall” and resignation was by far one of the most…

  • Thank you, Metiria.

    It was always a possibility in the back of my mind that Metiria Turei’s admission of benefit fraud – and the absolute flood of hatred, hypocrisy, bullying and mucky insinuations…

  • QOTD: Herald Insights on NZ voting patterns

    Credit where credit’s due, some great work is coming out of the NZ Herald’s Insights data site, like this interactive exploration of how different groups in NZ vote. But there’s…

  • Charging for OIAs

    A number of journos on Twitter have started highlighting the somewhat ridiculous amounts of money they’re being quoted by government departments and DHBs to fulfil requests made under the Official…