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Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara
This post was inspired by recent events in online/NZ/Twitter-based conversation, but it’s also part of wider thinking I’ve been doing about activism and policing other people’s behaviour. Remember: if it’s…
Back in 2011, Skepchick founder Rebecca Watson made some really mild comments about a dude’s inappropriate behaviour at a conference. Things blew up, especially once the prince of Internet Atheism,…
It’s funny (or depending on your point of view, completely predictable) how often feminist analysis and leftwing analysis overlap. There’s a term: “tone argument”. It refers to the regular pleas…
A bingo board of responses to a one-word comment I made on The Standard yesterday, criticising someone’s “joke” about a cis woman’s appearance and comparing her to a trans woman. (It…
Stephanie Rodgers 