Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: privilege

  • Older white men paid double young ethnic women

    That’s not my headline. That’s Stuff’s business section’s headline. Middle-aged white men might be sick of being cast as villains, but a report suggests they should check their privilege. And…

  • QOTD: Pratchett on privilege

    The parents of two pupils from St Bede’s College got a court injunction so their sons could row in a competition. The school had cut them from the team after they…

  • QOTD: Aditya Mukerjee on the second-class languages of Unicode

    At Model View Culture, an article hilariously/depressingly entitled “I Can Text You a Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name“: The very first version of the Unicode standard…

  • Repost: Life isn’t fair. But it should be.

    (Originally posted at On The Left.) I was not an angelic child. My mother has retconned her memory of my early years since I became an adult, and my grandmother…