What’s Current: #SafeNailSalonsNYC — Agencies and volunteers are mobilizing for nail salon workers’ rights

A tipster sent Jezebel these shots of the flyers being handed out at the Staten Island ferry terminal.Hundreds of volunteers are working for #SafeNailSalonsNYC today.

There’s only one week left to help fund Julie Bindel’s new investigative book: “Abolishing the Sex Work Myth: The Rise of the Prostitution Survivor Movement.”

“I’m not like other girls” — A great piece on that seductive idea of being a cool girl.

Believing myself to be different from other girls was the first step toward internalizing and then externalizing misogyny that took years to purge from my system.

Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress to her graduation from Columbia University.

A Florida college forced female students to undergo vaginal probes by their fellow students (including males) in a medical technician program.

Game of Thrones gruesome rape scene causes fans to quit watching the series en masse. (Personally, I loved that show, but this is the last straw. All the fantasy glitz and glam can’t cover up the porny torture of women that happens every other episode. I quit.)

Ontario MPP, Laurie Scott, seeks to establish a Human Trafficking Task Force (similar to the Guns and Gangs Task Force) to bring justice officials together to fight the pimping and slavery of girls and women. Scott says:

It’s more lucrative than guns and gangs and drugs right at the moment … The girls are getting younger. I’ve been told by police forces there are some at 11 years old … Often they’re sold to other parts of the province or other provinces. There’s just a lot of money — $280,000 they figure, one girl makes in a year.

Meghan Murphy

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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.