Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: kelvin davis

  • 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…

  • Generational change

    This paragraph in a eulogy for Jim Anderton on Newsroom, got me thinking about generational change in politics: Trapped in near-perpetual opposition since the first Labour Government of 1935-49, with…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on John Key, David Carter and using rape for political gain

    The “Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup” is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: If you’re even peripherally aware of what…

  • The Northland by-election

    With Mike Sabin’s precipitous resignation, a by-election is on the cards in Northland, and soon: https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560936428948189184 https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560937099889623040 It’s exciting times for politics nerds like myself, but the fact is that…