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Feminist Current
by Meghan Murphy
Meghan Murphy brings you voices from the real women's movement — bold, unapologetic, and honest.
Episodes
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New Title IX rules threaten female sports and due process
On April 19th, the Biden Administration released new rules "broadening the scope of Title IX," the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs. The new rules add "gender identity" to the law, roll back regulations aimed at ensuring due process for those accused of harassment…
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Emma Thomas' father 'came out' as trans when she was nine—now she fights to protect kids like her
It's only recently that we are beginning to hear the stories of family members of men who have begun identifying as women, from the “trans widow” to, now, the children of transitioners. Emma Thomas is the founder of the campaign group, Children of Transitioners, a group that questioned the...
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Sasha Ayad: When kids say they're trans
Sasha Ayad is Licensed Professional Counselor who has treated adolescents for over 13 years. She began feeling concerned about the trans trend reaching teens, and after learning about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) so began looking into the “trans kid”phenomenon more deeply. Sasha became a...
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A 'trans widow' on how her husband went from abuser to trans activist
The so-called "trans widow" has become the woman best able to reveal the truth about the trans trend. She is the woman who lost her husband to transgenderism, and often tells a similar story of porn addiction, narcissism, abandonment of family, and sometimes abuse. I spoke with one women, who is...
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The woman punched by a counter protester at the 1millionmarch4kids speaks out
Canadians have begun pushing back against gender identity ideology in schools. But it has not been easy. The first 1millionmarch4kids in Victoria, BC on September 21st was shut down barely after it began, the police determining it was too dangerous to continue. A second rally happened on October...
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Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist who is speaking out against gender identity in Sweden
Kajsa Ekis Ekman published Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self in 2013 and has worked as a prominent and respected journalist in Sweden for many years. In 2022, Kajsa published The Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman, within which she…
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Helen Joyce on how the Labour Party changed its stance on gender identity
Helen Joyce is a journalist, editor, and the author of Trans: When ideology meets reality. Helen is also a founder of Sex Matters, a campaign group advocating for clarity about the two sexes—male and female—in law and in life. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Helen about new political...
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Jennifer Bilek on the true roots of the transgender movement
Jennifer Bilek is a writer, a journalist, and an artist. As many of us struggled to understand the seemingly sudden onset of gender identity ideology and wonder how it took hold of institutions so quickly, Jennifer dug in and found the truth: billionaires, biotech, and transhumanists. In this...
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Pornhub was hosting videos of minors and trafficking victims — what's next?
In February 2020, Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry’s Director of Abolition at the time, published an op-ed titled, “Time to Shut Pornhub Down,” bringing attention to the fact that Pornhub was hosting child pornography and videos of trafficking victims on the site. This sparked a petition and...
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Beyond a woman's choice: the real story of prostitution in Canada
The issue of prostitution in Canada has been left mostly uncovered. The debate in the public sphere tends to centre around questions of "women’s choices," and the left chants "sex work is work" in an effort to frame the problems in the sex trade as being limited to labour standards. Meanwhile…
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The truth about OnlyFans, with Alix Aharon
Porn and people’s relationships to porn has changed immensely since the advent of the internet — even moreso with apps like OnlyFans and other social media tools that connect consumers directly to women. Many argue these tools are a means to empower women — allowing them freedom, independence…
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Are trans rights really human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here
Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College London and a lawyer for the LGB Alliance, was scheduled to give a talk called called “Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T,” at McGill University in Montreal last week. The event...
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Scottish women face a bigger fight as gender self-ID bill passes
Scottish women suffered major blow in December when the SNP government passed a bill that will allow anyone to get a gender recognition certificate through self-declaration without a diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" or doctor’s assessment. They will need only to claim to have been "living as a...
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Marissa Darlingh was fired as a school counselor for speaking out against gender identity ideology
Marissa Darlingh was an elementary school counselor with over a decade of experience working with students in culturally diverse public school districts when she was fired from her job at Allen-Field Elementary School in the Milwaukee Public School District. After speaking at an April 23 rally in...
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Maryam Namazie on the women's revolution in Iran
Two months ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini traveled from her hometown in the province of Kurdistan to the Iranian capital, Tehran, to visit her brother. She was arrested by the morality police getting off the subway for failing to cover her hair properly, in accordance with Iran’s Sharia law. Three...
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Sall Grover wanted to create a female-only app — she didn't know that would make her a target
Today, women only spaces are highly controversial. Thanks to gender identity legislation, “female only” has become practically obsolete. When Sall Grover set out to create a female only social network and app, she was trying to help — offering women a space where they needn’t deal with the...
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Beyond Fantasy — Benjamin Nolot exposes the truth about porn, and it is dark
Pornography has been wholly normalized in our society. It is expected that men and boys use it, is joked about, and is treated as a harmless pastime — synonomous with masturbation. But the industry is anything but harmless. Benji Nolot is the founder of Exodus Cry, an NGO committed to abolishing...
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Do feminists need to pick a side? Katy Worley on political purity and Standing for Women
Infighting is not new to feminism — who is doing things right, who is doing things wrong, who is toxic, who is good, who is a phony, a grifter, not an ally, too right, too rich, too academic, too old, or too pretty has always been up for debate, and potentially a reason to cancel women from the...
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The Business of Birth Control
The pill has long been heralded as a win for women — a path towards freedom, a woman’s right, a pivotal aspect of the sexual revolution — but is hormonal birth control really all that? The Business of Birth Control, a new documentary from the creators of The Business of Being Born, takes a…
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Are gun rights women’s rights? Antonia Okafor Cover offers a feminist argument for gun ownership
Most feminists don't think of guns as means to empower women — rather, we tend to see them as a danger. Antonia Okafor Cover, the founder and president of EMPOWERED, sees things differently. Antonia is the National Director of Women's Outreach and a national spokesperson for Gun Owners of…
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Julie Jaman was banned from a pool for telling a male to leave the change room, but she's not backing down
Earlier this month, Julie Jaman, an 80-year-old resident of Port Townsend, Washington, was banned from her local community pool. Her crime was to ask a male to leave the female change room. Just moments after she told Clementine Adams to “get out of here,” she was told by YMCA aquatics manager,...
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Louise Perry thinks sexual liberation didn't liberate women at all
The sexual revolution is generally understood to have been liberating for women — we could enjoy sex free from social consequences as well as outside the context of marriage and reproduction. Women no longer need to marry or have children if they don’t want to. They can have sex before marriage....
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Christina Ellingsen is facing prison time for saying that men aren't women
Norwegian feminist Christina Ellingsen is facing a prison sentence of up to three years for saying that men cannot be lesbians or mothers. Country contact for Women’s Declaration International (WDI) in Norway, Christina is being investigated under hate crime charges for tweets she made between...
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Katherine Deves on Australian politics, modern feminism, and why she stood up for girls' and women's sport
Katherine Deves is a Sydney-based lawyer and mother of three daughters. In 2020, she realized no one was standing up for female athletes in Australia, so joined forces with women in New Zealand to co-found Save Women's Sport Australasia. Katherine gained national prominence during the 2022...
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Mary Lou Singleton on Roe v Wade, the abortion debate, and how we got here
Last week, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in 1973. Why did this happen? Who is to blame? What does this mean for American women? How do we move forward? In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with…
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Maya Forstater on her Employment Tribunal win, #respectmysex, and JK Rowling
In 2018, Maya Forstater was subject to an internal investigation at her place of employment, the Center for Global Development, after complaints about her tweets. She lost her job as a result, accused of "transphobia." Maya took the case to the Employment Tribunal, which resulted first in a...
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Does Twitter hate women? Holly Lawford-Smith on 'Gender Critical Feminism,' hate speech, and the future of Twitter
Twitter has a history of banning those who fail to toe the line in terms of progressive political orthodoxy. In particular, the social media corporation has banned numerous people for challenging gender identity ideology — for saying things like ‘men aren’t women,’ for example. Does twitter have…
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Feminists in Quebec are fighting to curb surrogacy
Surrogacy has become a relatively mainstream practice. Celebrities and those with means treat surrogacy as a harmless option to aid women who cannot or do not wish to carry their own babies or to allow gay couples to have children. Few seem to consider the impact on mother and baby. A new…
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Andrea Heinz worked as an escort, a dominatrix, and a brothel owner in Edmonton — now she educates people about the harms of 'sex work ideology'
The stories of those who exited prostitution tend to be wildly different than those still working in the industry and identifying as "sex workers." And what men tend to believe about those working in prostitution tends to align with that "sex worker" narrative as well — that some women just…
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Child marriage in Mexico persists, despite legislative changes
Child marriage may be a thing of the past in many Western countries, but remains a reality for many girls in Mexico. While the law has changed, the practice remains, and one in four girls in Mexico are married before the age of 18. The persistence of this practice continues to have harmful…
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Milli Hill on the Positive Birth Movement and how she was banished from her own community
Milli Hill is a freelance journalist and author The Positive Birth Book, Give Birth like a Feminist, and a new book for preteens, My Period. She founded the Positive Birth Movement in 2012 and ran it until recently, when she was “cancelled” for defending women-centered language when talking about...
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Natasha Chart on her new book, 'Practical Politics for Bold Women'
One of the most common questions I receive from women is, "How can I take action?" So many women are concerned about the legislation and ideology being embraced by politicians, the media, and institutions, yet feel helpless to make a difference. A new book — Practical Politics for Bold Women — is...
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The Famous Artist Birdy Rose
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with The Famous Artist Birdy Rose, a UK-based artist from Essex who has been subject to an ongoing slander campaign on account of her advocacy for women and women’s rights. Find her online @artistbirdyrose.
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Feminist Current: Carol Dansereau on gender identity in schools
While kids once would (perhaps awkwardly) learn about the birds and the bees in school, sex ed has changed suddenly and rapidly, without consultation with parents or consideration for the impact on kids. Today, students are no longer learning about sex, but about gender and gender identity. Many...
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Feminist Current: Men are being transferred to women's prisons and the Liberals don't care
On Saturday, women gathered at Fraser Valley Institution, a prison in Abbotsford, BC, to protest the housing of men in women’s prisons. Since Bill C-16 passed in Canada, males who identify as transgender have been permitted to transfer to female prisons. Yet the Liberal government won’t address...
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Jess de Wahls can't be cancelled
On June 17, Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts published a post on Instagram, saying: “Thank you to all those for bringing an item in the RA Shop by an artist expressing transphobic views to our attention. We were unaware of the artist's stated views, and their work will not be stocked in the…
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Trans Mission — an interview with Jennifer Lahl
The transitioning of kids is ever more common these days, despite growing concerns about physical, mental, and social impacts of encouraging youth to identify as the opposite sex. A new documentary film, Trans Mission, explores the background, messaging, and consequences of transitioning kids,...
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Beth Stelzer is on a mission to save women's sports
A key concern for women, in terms of the impact of gender identity legislation, has been new policies being rolled out in various countries around the world, allowing males to compete with and against girls in sport. Beth Stelzer is a housewife, a mom, and an amateur powerlifter in Minnesota. She...
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PODCAST: Donna Hughes was denounced by her university for questioning gender identity
Donna Hughes is a Professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the Gender and Women's Studies Department. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence and has long conducted research on human trafficking, particularly the sexual...
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Feminist Current: The Limitations of Social Media Feminism
Social media has become central to most of our lives — even moreso as Covid restrictions have prevented us from meeting and organizing in person. But even before the pandemic, much of feminist activism had moved online. Hashtag movements were receiving wide coverage in the media and the idea of...
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Feminist Current: Women Picket DC
On January 20 2021, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” Biden’s order chooses to interpret sex broadly as “sexual orientation and gender identity” but does not make any provisions for the...
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Will President Joe Biden's Executive Order erase women's rights?
Last month, on inauguration day, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” Women across the United States and around the world reacted with anger. This meant, they feared, the erasure of women’s...
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Phyllis Chesler on Aileen Wuornos, America's 'first female serial killer'
Aileen Wuornos, often labelled America’s “first female serial killer,” was executed by lethal injection in Florida in 2002. Her life was one of endless trauma and abuse, beginning as a child and extending into her adult life, as a prostitute. The men she killed were said to be johns -- she…
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PODCAST: The Transsexual Empire revisited — Janice Raymond on transgenderism, yesterday and today
In 1979, Janice Raymond published The Transsexual Empire, the first and probably most well-known book articulating a radical feminist analysis of transgenderism. Little did we know, 40 years later, trans activism would become the biggest threat to feminism in decades. She warned us all, early on,...
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PODCAST: The Women’s Human Rights Campaign launches in the US, fighting to save women’s sex-based rights
On August 16, the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) launched its United States chapter. WHRC is an international group of women dedicated to protecting the human rights of women and girls, and opposing the replacement of the category of sex with “gender identity.” The organization is gathering...
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PODCAST: Daphna Morell and Luba Fein on the feminist movement in Israel
The global women’s movement is a force to be reckoned with. The fight against the sex trade has been particularly successful in Israel, where feminists united to pass The Prohibition of Consumption of Prostitution Services Act, a law that imposes fines for consuming prostitution or attempting to...
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PODCAST: Susan Hawthorne — In defense of separatism
Susan Hawthorne (Photo: Nick Walton-Healy) The word “separatism” may lead some to recoil. But what does it really mean, from radical feminist perspective? Susan Hawthorne is co-founder of Spinifex Press, an independent feminist press in Melbourne, Australia, and author of two novels, nine...
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PODCAST: Prof Kathleen Lowrey didn’t hide her views on gender identity ideology, and was punished for it
University of Alberta associate professor Kathleen Lowrey was dismissed as associate chair of undergraduate studies in the department of anthropology in March. Kathleen Lowrey, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, was recently dismissed from her role as…
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PODCAST: Stella Perrett on why free speech and satire should matter to feminists
Credit: Stella Perrett Stella Perrett was a political cartoonist for the UK’s only socialist daily newspaper, The Morning Star, from 2015 to 2020. She had published cartoons criticizing capitalism, the police, Brexit, the American president, and more. It wasn’t until Stella drew a cartoon called...
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PODCAST: Women as ‘breeders’ — Renate Klein on the harms of surrogacy
Renate Klein, author of “Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation” We hear about surrogacy routinely in the media, almost consistently in a celebratory way — a baby is gifted to a loving and deserving family. Celebrities announce they are “having a baby” via a surrogate and face almost no criticism.…
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