Meghan Murphy

Founder & Editor

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.

What’s Current: Racism in America and police brutality

On Tuesday, 24-year-old Melissa Ventura was shot to death by two Yuma County sheriff’s deputies who were responding to a domestic-abuse call. Thousands of demonstrators marched through New York City’s streets on…

Happy birthday to we!

Every year, a kindly reader/ally reminds us that July 1st is our bday! I appreciate this, as I am enmeshed, most days, in editing 800 things and trying (but always failing) to…

xHamster’s fake ethics won’t stop rape or rape culture

Porn giant xHamster recently announced they would no longer allow users to search the term “rape” on their site. The company is calling it the “Brock Turner rule,” in reference to the…

What’s Current: Swiss company plans to open ‘fellatio café’

That’s right, folks! Legalization brings blow job cafes. Is this what liberation feels like? Thanks to pro-choice advocates, on Monday, the Supreme Court voted to strike down two anti-abortion provisions that were part of…

And the award goes to… porn culture!

Every year, Cannes Lions celebrates the world’s greatest capitalists… Ahem, I mean ads. So while perhaps our hopes they might avoid actively promoting porn culture are misplaced, a wish might be that…