Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: trans women

  • Laurel Hubbard is a trailblazer

    Laurel Hubbard has qualified to represent New Zealand at the next Olympics (whenever or wherever those happen) in women’s weightlifting. Virtually no one would have paid any attention to this…

  • Sunday reads

    A few pieces that caught my eye this week. Mark Brown: If you’re asking ‘What real poor person could be at Glastonbury?’ you’ve never been poor Culture makes your world…

  • Cranium’s Christmas sign: why is mainstream Kiwi culture so unfunny?

    [Content note: transphobia, insincere apologies] I’ve posted before about the paradox which occurs when privileged types – usually middle-aged white dudes – tell incredibly unfunny, bigoted jokes, and then whinge…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on the incarceration of trans women in male prisons

    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: [Content note: transphobia, sexual assault, corrections] It…

  • Alesha, Who Smiles At Death and smashes geek stereotypes

    I’ve started using the word “nerd” to describe myself more and more recently. I used to be firmly a “geek”, because geeks were cool and nerds were those awkward people…