Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: narrative

  • How we got here

    When I saw this article about the Takapuna Kathmandu store deliberately destroying clothing, sleeping bags and tents before disposing of them, I started thinking about how the hell we got…

  • Stop letting the side down with your fat hate

    This post has been knocking around in my head for a while but it’s timely after another round of The Great Liberal Fat-Hating Sugar Tax “Debate” has played out on…

  • Make the bludgers pay their fair share

    Few things in this world make me eyeroll as strongly as the quibblers who jump up whenever you point out the discrepancy between the amount of money lost to benefit…

  • Migration, taps and growing pains

    I keep promising to review Anat Shenker-Osorio’s book Don’t Buy It. I’m getting there, I promise. My copy is almost more Post-It Note than paper at the moment. But there’s…

  • Where those Kiwimeter questions came from

    TVNZ’s Kiwimeter quiz has caused a lot of conversation. I don’t call it a “survey” because that seems like far too serious a title for something which slots respondents into…