Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: transphobia

  • Statistics are political

    Today is the New Zealand Census. And if that comes as a surprise to you, your surprise is not a surprise to me. If that makes sense. I’m obviously a…

  • 2017 rewind: The political prospects for 2017: living our values

    Well, isn’t that convenient: the tenth-most-read post on Boots Theory in 2017, and thus the first to be posted in this 2017 rewind series, is from the beginning of the…

  • 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…

  • The political prospects for 2017: living our values

    This week I spoke on an panel with Morgan Godfery and Mike Munro at the Fabian Society in Wellington on the political prospects for 2017. A podcast of the discussion…

  • 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…