Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: narrative

  • How we talk about industrial action

    There’s a problem with the way we talk about working people who take industrial action. The problem is we don’t talk about them at all. Check out the framing of…

  • Escaping the beartrap: good policy costs money

    I wrote a while back about Metiria Turei’s 2016 state of the nation address, and my reservations about the idea of an “independent” policy costings unit. I said: I want…

  • Who is the left’s Rodney Hide?

    I had some thoughts on Rodney Hide’s latest column in the Herald on Sunday: https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/655485977780056064 https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/655486540756336640 And they kept developing so I figured I had the makings of a blog…

  • Don’t meet the people where they are

    It has been a ridiculously busy week, dear readers. On Wednesday we celebrated the launch of E tū, the new union formed from the merger of the EPMU and SFWU.…

  • Important public message: a sense of entitlement isn’t love

    There’s a hugely important message in this article from the Herald about people (most often men) who kill their partners (most often women). “These are not crimes of love, these…