This interview was recorded in July 2011 and originally aired on Vancouver Co-op Radio. In this episode, Meghan Murphy explores the older man/younger woman relationship with guest, Hugo Schwyzer. We’ve all…
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Meghan Murphy speaks with neuroscience journalist, Maia Szalavitz, about some of the controversial claims made about female sexuality in Naomi Wolf’s new book, Vagina. In her article, ‘Naomi Wolf’s Vagina Aside, What…
With pages dedicated specifically to ‘creepshots’, rape ‘jokes’, and the 12-year-old slut meme page (as well as a numerous other pages dedicated to ‘sluts’), there is a growing concern that Facebook has…
Though many of the more oppressive aspects of marriage have been removed, the institution itself continues to represent and reinforce a patriarchal and heteronormative ideology in many ways. Marriage seems barely relevant…
The legalization of prostitution is something that is often promoted as a way to make the industry ‘safer’ for women, a concept that is challenged by feminists who believe that prostitution can…
Derrick Jensen is the author of many books which are both wonderful and, at times, difficult to process due to the heavy and unapologetic dose of reality he places at the forefront…
This interview originally aired on Vancouver Co-op Radio on April 24, 2010. Meghan Murphy speaks with Amanda Hess about a proposal to introduce a new discipline that looks at the ‘male as…
There is something very similar in the way we cut animals up into body parts, turning them into objects for our consumption rather than seeing them as whole beings, and the way…
This show looks at addressing violence against women in activist communities. How do we address violence in progressive organizations and movements? Are transformative community justice processes, for example, productive or problematic? Meghan…
In Robert Jensen’s book, Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, he wrote, “Mirrors can be dangerous, and pornography is a mirror. Pornography as a mirror shows us how men see…
Although the Nixon v. Rape Relief case was settled back in 2007, with a dismissal of Kimberly Nixon’s request to appeal the B.C. Court of Appeals decision (that decision being that “Vancouver…
The idea that feminists ‘should’ or ‘should not’ be anything is contentious. Of course when one says you ‘should’ be anything, we are bound to become defensive. The idea that feminists ‘should’…
December 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. This day marks the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, the day Marc Lepine entered l’École Polytechnique de Montréal…
I speak with Jackie Lynne, a Métis woman, a social worker, an exited prostitute, and a member of The Aboriginal Women’s Action Network, about the way in which the City of Vancouver is…
Originally posted at Hugo Schwyzer’s blog. Hugo Schwyzer is a gender studies professor at a college in Southern California, a writer, and was an organizer of Slutwalk LA. Though our opinions and…