When academics and leftists dismiss women’s concerns about their rights as a “moral panic,” they place themselves among the ranks of anti-feminists and the alt-right.

When academics and leftists dismiss women’s concerns about their rights as a “moral panic,” they place themselves among the ranks of anti-feminists and the alt-right.
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Meghan Murphy interviews Judith Green, a longtime socialist activist who recently helped to launch Woman’s Place UK, a group committed to supporting women’s sex-based rights and challenging proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act.
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Hillary McBride about her new book, “Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are,” as well as about flawed approaches to eating disorders, loving your body under patriarchy, and what a feminist approach to therapy looks like.
Shon Faye claims to be in solidarity with women, but if that’s true, why doesn’t he respect our autonomy?
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Daisy Kler, a longtime anti-male violence activist in Vancouver, about the reality of racism and male violence in Canada.
#MeToo may feel like a watershed moment, but we need to get organized if we truly want to effect change.
How can we claim to be shocked by a culture we all live in, participate in, and are complicit in?