Feminist Current

By Meghan Murphy

Society & Culture

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Meghan Murphy brings you voices from the real women's movement — bold, unapologetic, and honest.

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Feminist Current episodes:

03.06.2024
Emma Thomas' father 'came out' as trans when she was nine—now she fights to protect kids like her
It's only recently that we are beginning to hear the stories of family members of men who have begun identifying as women, from the “trans widow” to, now, the children of transitioners. Emma Thomas is the founder of the campaign group, Children...
01.09.2024
Sasha Ayad: When kids say they're trans
Sasha Ayad⁠ is Licensed Professional Counselor who has treated adolescents for over 13 years. She began feeling concerned about the trans trend reaching teens, and after learning about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) so began looking into the “trans kid”phenomenon more deeply....
12.11.2023
A 'trans widow' on how her husband went from abuser to trans activist
The so-called "trans widow" has become the woman best able to reveal the truth about the trans trend. She is the woman who lost her husband to transgenderism, and often tells a similar story of porn addiction, narcissism, abandonment of...
12.10.2023
A 'trans widow' speaks about how her ex went from abusive husband to trans activist hero
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with a "trans widow," a term referring to women whose husbands began identifying as women. Her name has been kept anonymous for safety reasons. Feminist Current is an entirely listener-funded podcast. We are ad...
11.01.2023
The woman punched by a counter protester at the 1millionmarch4kids speaks out
Canadians have begun pushing back against gender identity ideology in schools. But it has not been easy. The first 1millionmarch4kids in Victoria, BC on September 21st was shut down barely after it began, the police determining it was too dangerous to...
09.13.2023
Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist speaking out against gender identity in Sweden
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Kajsa Ekis Ekman, author of "The Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman"
09.13.2023
Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist who is speaking out against gender identity in Sweden
Kajsa Ekis Ekman published Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self in 2013 and has worked as a prominent and respected journalist in Sweden for many years. In 2022, Kajsa published The Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about...
08.24.2023
Helen Joyce on how Labour changed its stance on gender identity, why women’s bathrooms matter, and her spat with Matt Walsh
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with founder of Sex Matters, Helen Joyce, about new political developments in the UK around gender identity legislation, why women's bathrooms matter, and her spat with Matt Walsh
08.24.2023
Helen Joyce on how the Labour Party changed its stance on gender identity
Helen Joyce is a journalist, editor, and the author of Trans: When ideology meets reality. Helen is also a founder of Sex Matters, a campaign group advocating for clarity about the two sexes—male and female—in law and in life. In this...
08.06.2023
Jennifer Bilek on the true roots of the transgender movement
Jennifer Bilek is a writer, a journalist, and an artist. As many of us struggled to understand the seemingly sudden onset of gender identity ideology and wonder how it took hold of institutions so quickly, Jennifer dug in and found...
06.15.2023
Jill Ovens resigned from New Zealand’s Labour Party to start the Women’s Rights Party
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with founder of New Zealand's Women's Rights Party.
06.15.2023
Jill Ovens resigned from New Zealand's Labour Party to start the Women's Rights Party
After women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen was mobbed and assaulted in New Zealand on March 25th, longtime feminist and socialist Jill Ovens decided she'd had enough. The following week, Jill resigned from the Labour Party and founded the Women's Rights...
05.10.2023
Why are dangerous men still being housed in women’s prisons?
In this episode, Meghan Murphys speaks with two activists fighting to keep male inmates out of women's prisons
05.10.2023
Why are dangerous men still being housed in women's prisons?
In recent years, prisons across the Western world have been allowing men who identify as women to be housed alongside female inmates, leading to sexual harassment, sexual assaults, pregnancies, and complaints from women both in prison and among the general...
04.21.2023
Pornhub was hosting videos of minors and trafficking victims — what’s next?
Meghan Murphy speaks with Director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation, Haley McNamara, about exploitation on Pornhub.
04.21.2023
Pornhub was hosting videos of minors and trafficking victims — what's next?
In February 2020, Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry’s Director of Abolition at the time, published an op-ed titled, “Time to Shut Pornhub Down,” bringing attention to the fact that Pornhub was hosting child pornography and videos of trafficking victims on the...
03.23.2023
Beyond a woman's choice: the real story of prostitution in Canada
The issue of prostitution in Canada has been left mostly uncovered. The debate in the public sphere tends to centre around questions of "women’s choices," and the left chants "sex work is work" in an effort to frame the problems...
02.05.2023
The truth about OnlyFans, with Alix Aharon
Porn and people’s relationships to porn has changed immensely since the advent of the internet — even moreso with apps like OnlyFans and other social media tools that connect consumers directly to women. Many argue these tools are a means...
01.22.2023
Are trans rights human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here
Trans activists stopped Prof. Robert Wintemute's talk, but started an international conversation.
01.22.2023
Are trans rights really human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here
Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College London and a lawyer for the LGB Alliance, was scheduled to give a talk called called “Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of...
01.03.2023
Scottish women face a bigger fight as gender self-ID bill passes
Scottish women suffered major blow in December when the SNP government passed a bill that will allow anyone to get a gender recognition certificate through self-declaration without a diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" or doctor’s assessment. They will need only to...
12.21.2022
Marissa Darlingh was fired as a school counselor for speaking out against gender identity ideology
Marissa Darlingh was an elementary school counselor with over a decade of experience working with students in culturally diverse public school districts when she was fired from her job at Allen-Field Elementary School in the Milwaukee Public School District. After...
11.28.2022
Maryam Namazie on the women’s revolution in Iran
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Maryam Namazie, feminist, secularist, and human rights activist, about the uprisings she calls a "women's revolution" in Iran.
11.28.2022
Maryam Namazie on the women's revolution in Iran
Two months ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini traveled from her hometown in the province of Kurdistan to the Iranian capital, Tehran, to visit her brother. She was arrested by the morality police getting off the subway for failing to cover her...
11.07.2022
Sall Grover wanted to create a female-only app — she didn’t know that would make her a target
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with founder and CEO of Giggle, a female-only social network and app
11.07.2022
Sall Grover wanted to create a female-only app — she didn't know that would make her a target
Today, women only spaces are highly controversial. Thanks to gender identity legislation, “female only” has become practically obsolete. When Sall Grover set out to create a female only social network and app, she was trying to help — offering women...
10.25.2022
Beyond Fantasy — Benji Nolot exposes the dark truth about porn
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with the producer of a new documentary series looking at the disturbing truth about the pornography billions watch around the world.
10.25.2022
Beyond Fantasy — Benjamin Nolot exposes the truth about porn, and it is dark
Pornography has been wholly normalized in our society. It is expected that men and boys use it, is joked about, and is treated as a harmless pastime — synonomous with masturbation. But the industry is anything but harmless. Benji Nolot...
10.05.2022
Do feminists need to pick a side? Katy Worley on political purity and Standing for Women
Infighting is not new to feminism — who is doing things right, who is doing things wrong, who is toxic, who is good, who is a phony, a grifter, not an ally, too right, too rich, too academic, too old,...
09.26.2022
The Business of Birth Control
The pill has long been heralded as a win for women — a path towards freedom, a woman’s right, a pivotal aspect of the sexual revolution — but is hormonal birth control really all that? The Business of Birth...
09.15.2022
Are gun rights women’s rights? Antonia Okafor Cover offers a feminist argument for gun ownership
Most feminists don't think of guns as means to empower women — rather, we tend to see them as a danger. Antonia Okafor Cover, the founder and president of EMPOWERED, sees things differently. Antonia is the National Director of Women's...
08.23.2022
Julie Jaman was banned from a pool for telling a male to leave the change room, but she's not backing down
Earlier this month, Julie Jaman, an 80-year-old resident of Port Townsend, Washington, was banned from her local community pool. Her crime was to ask a male to leave the female change room. Just moments after she told Clementine Adams to...
08.22.2022
Julie Jaman was banned from her pool for telling a man to leave the change room, but she’s not backing down
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Julie Jaman, the 80-year-old woman who was banned from her community pool for asking a man to leave the woman's change room.
08.02.2022
Louise Perry thinks sexual liberation didn’t liberate women at all
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Louise Perry, author of "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution," about how modern sexual and relationship norms hurt women.
08.02.2022
Louise Perry thinks sexual liberation didn't liberate women at all
The sexual revolution is generally understood to have been liberating for women — we could enjoy sex free from social consequences as well as outside the context of marriage and reproduction. Women no longer need to marry or have children...
07.22.2022
Christina Ellingsen is facing prison time for saying that men can’t be women
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Norwegian feminist Christina Ellingsen, who is being investigated under hate crime charges for saying that men can't be lesbians or mothers.
07.22.2022
Christina Ellingsen is facing prison time for saying that men aren't women
Norwegian feminist Christina Ellingsen is facing a prison sentence of up to three years for saying that men cannot be lesbians or mothers. Country contact for Women’s Declaration International (WDI) in Norway, Christina is being investigated under hate crime charges...
07.14.2022
Katherine Deves on Australian politics, modern feminism, and why she stood up for girls’ and women’s sport
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speak with Katherine Deves, the co-founder of Save Women's Sports Australasia, who ran as the Liberal candidate for the seat of Warringah in 2022.
07.14.2022
Katherine Deves on Australian politics, modern feminism, and why she stood up for girls' and women's sport
Katherine Deves is a Sydney-based lawyer and mother of three daughters. In 2020, she realized no one was standing up for female athletes in Australia, so joined forces with women in New Zealand to co-found Save Women's Sport Australasia. Katherine...
06.28.2022
Mary Lou Singleton on Roe v. Wade, the abortion debate, and how we got here
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Mary Lou Singleton, a midwife and nurse practioner, about the flaws in the abortion debate and the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade.
06.28.2022
Mary Lou Singleton on Roe v Wade, the abortion debate, and how we got here
Last week, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in 1973. Why did this happen? Who is to blame? What does this mean for American women? How do...
06.07.2022
Maya Forstater on her Employment Tribunal win, #respectmysex, and JK Rowling
In 2018, Maya Forstater was subject to an internal investigation at her place of employment, the Center for Global Development, after complaints about her tweets. She lost her job as a result, accused of "transphobia." Maya took the case to...
04.27.2022
Does Twitter hate women? Holly Lawford-Smith on ‘Gender-Critical Feminism,’ hate speech, and the future of Twitter
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Holly Lawford-Smith about social media censorship and her new book, "Gender-Critical Feminism."
04.27.2022
Does Twitter hate women? Holly Lawford-Smith on 'Gender Critical Feminism,' hate speech, and the future of Twitter
Twitter has a history of banning those who fail to toe the line in terms of progressive political orthodoxy. In particular, the social media corporation has banned numerous people for challenging gender identity ideology — for saying things like ‘men aren’t...
04.12.2022
Feminists in Quebec are fighting to curb surrogacy
Surrogacy has become a relatively mainstream practice. Celebrities and those with means treat surrogacy as a harmless option to aid women who cannot or do not wish to carry their own babies or to allow gay couples to have children....
02.24.2022
Andrea Heinz worked as an escort, a dominatrix, and a brothel owner in Edmonton — now she educates people about prostitution and ‘sex work ideology’
The stories of those who exited prostitution tend to be wildly different than those still working in the industry and identifying as “sex workers.” And what men tend to believe about those working in prostitution tends to align with that...
02.24.2022
Andrea Heinz worked as an escort, a dominatrix, and a brothel owner in Edmonton — now she educates people about the harms of 'sex work ideology'
The stories of those who exited prostitution tend to be wildly different than those still working in the industry and identifying as "sex workers." And what men tend to believe about those working in prostitution tends to align with that...
02.01.2022
Child marriage in Mexico persists, despite legislative changes
Child marriage may be a thing of the past in many Western countries, but remains a reality for many girls in Mexico. While the law has changed, the practice remains, and one in four girls in Mexico are married before...
12.01.2021
Milli Hill on the Positive Birth Movement and how she was banished from her own community
Milli Hill is a freelance journalist and author The Positive Birth Book, Give Birth like a Feminist, and a new book for preteens, My Period. She founded the Positive Birth Movement in 2012 and ran it until...
11.14.2021
Natasha Chart on her new book, ‘Practical Politics for Bold Women’
One of the most common questions I receive from women is, “How can I take action?” So many women are concerned about the legislation and ideology being embraced by politicians, the media, and institutions, yet feel helpless to make a...

What's Feminist Current about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Feminist Current episodes:

Emma Thomas' father 'came out' as trans when she was nine—now she fights to protect kids like her

Sasha Ayad: When kids say they're trans

A 'trans widow' on how her husband went from abuser to trans activist

A 'trans widow' speaks about how her ex went from abusive husband to trans activist hero

The woman punched by a counter protester at the 1millionmarch4kids speaks out

Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist speaking out against gender identity in Sweden

Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist who is speaking out against gender identity in Sweden

Helen Joyce on how Labour changed its stance on gender identity, why women’s bathrooms matter, and her spat with Matt Walsh

Helen Joyce on how the Labour Party changed its stance on gender identity

Jennifer Bilek on the true roots of the transgender movement

Jill Ovens resigned from New Zealand’s Labour Party to start the Women’s Rights Party

Jill Ovens resigned from New Zealand's Labour Party to start the Women's Rights Party

Why are dangerous men still being housed in women’s prisons?

Why are dangerous men still being housed in women's prisons?

Pornhub was hosting videos of minors and trafficking victims — what’s next?

Pornhub was hosting videos of minors and trafficking victims — what's next?

Beyond a woman's choice: the real story of prostitution in Canada

The truth about OnlyFans, with Alix Aharon

Are trans rights human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here

Are trans rights really human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here

Scottish women face a bigger fight as gender self-ID bill passes

Marissa Darlingh was fired as a school counselor for speaking out against gender identity ideology

Maryam Namazie on the women’s revolution in Iran

Maryam Namazie on the women's revolution in Iran

Sall Grover wanted to create a female-only app — she didn’t know that would make her a target

Sall Grover wanted to create a female-only app — she didn't know that would make her a target

Beyond Fantasy — Benji Nolot exposes the dark truth about porn

Beyond Fantasy — Benjamin Nolot exposes the truth about porn, and it is dark

Do feminists need to pick a side? Katy Worley on political purity and Standing for Women

The Business of Birth Control

Are gun rights women’s rights? Antonia Okafor Cover offers a feminist argument for gun ownership

Julie Jaman was banned from a pool for telling a male to leave the change room, but she's not backing down

Julie Jaman was banned from her pool for telling a man to leave the change room, but she’s not backing down

Louise Perry thinks sexual liberation didn’t liberate women at all

Louise Perry thinks sexual liberation didn't liberate women at all

Christina Ellingsen is facing prison time for saying that men can’t be women

Christina Ellingsen is facing prison time for saying that men aren't women

Katherine Deves on Australian politics, modern feminism, and why she stood up for girls’ and women’s sport

Katherine Deves on Australian politics, modern feminism, and why she stood up for girls' and women's sport

Mary Lou Singleton on Roe v. Wade, the abortion debate, and how we got here

Mary Lou Singleton on Roe v Wade, the abortion debate, and how we got here

Maya Forstater on her Employment Tribunal win, #respectmysex, and JK Rowling

Does Twitter hate women? Holly Lawford-Smith on ‘Gender-Critical Feminism,’ hate speech, and the future of Twitter

Does Twitter hate women? Holly Lawford-Smith on 'Gender Critical Feminism,' hate speech, and the future of Twitter

Feminists in Quebec are fighting to curb surrogacy

Andrea Heinz worked as an escort, a dominatrix, and a brothel owner in Edmonton — now she educates people about prostitution and ‘sex work ideology’

Andrea Heinz worked as an escort, a dominatrix, and a brothel owner in Edmonton — now she educates people about the harms of 'sex work ideology'

Child marriage in Mexico persists, despite legislative changes

Milli Hill on the Positive Birth Movement and how she was banished from her own community

Natasha Chart on her new book, ‘Practical Politics for Bold Women’