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Dennis Hof is dead, but his legacy lives on through those who advocate to legalize prostitution
I am never relieved when evil men die. Rather, I feel angry — ripped off. Those men never got their comeuppance. T…
Leftists need to stop shaming women for engaging the criminal justice system in situations of abuse
When looking for alternatives to the criminal justice system, we need to be realistic, not idealistic.…
An open letter to the left regarding silence
The smearing, harassment, no-platforming, and silencing of women who express feminist opinions about gender and prostitu…
Daisy Kler on the way racism and misogyny play out in Canada to doubly harm women
Meghan Murphy speaks with Daisy Kler, a member of the Vancouver Rape Relief collective, about the challenges faced by wo…
I’m not here for celebrity culture, but I am here for Oprah
Not everything needs to be torn apart in order to advertise progressive credibility. Sometimes good things and powerful …
PODCAST: Daisy Kler on the way racism and misogyny play out in Canada to doubly harm women
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Daisy Kler, a longtime anti-male violence activist in Vancouver, about the re…
The pitfalls of trying to get in with the male left
Continuing a longstanding tradition, Jacobin attempts to skewer radical feminism, but misses the point entirely.…
Yes, all women are vulnerable to male violence
What makes a woman invulnerable to male violence? Apparently, if she is “an intelligent woman with a network of friends”…
‘Gestators,’ ‘hosts,’ and ‘pregnant people’: The bipartisan pact to erase women
The headline of an opinion piece pubilshed in prominent Spanish newspaper El País, “We are not sheep,” implies a story o…
This is not the way Milo Yiannopoulos should have gone down
I doubt very much that a gay man in pearls and lipstick was unanimously seen as an ideal CPAC speaker, yet they were goi…
27 years after the Montreal Massacre, misogynist violence remains a norm
Every day people express “shock” when yet another man kills his wife, girlfriend, ex-partner, or child. Thes…
The progressives who let Trump win won’t get my solidarity so easily
During the course of the election, I invented a game that I’d play inside my head while I was in progressive circles: I …
PODCAST: A Donald Trump presidency still feels unreal, but here we are – so what’s next?
On November 8th, American voters elected, not the first female president of the United States — an exceedingly qua…
Peter Tatchell’s approach to prostitution is anything but progressive
Peter Tatchell’s political interventions — in particular his “outing” of prominent figures for their h…