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June 21, 2023
Third Wave Riptide
If patriarchy is our default system - radical feminism is the only system of thinking and action that challenges the status quo of male domination. The only analysis that looks at our current world from women’s point of view and with women's interest...
If patriarchy is our default system - radical feminism is the only system of thinking and action that challenges the status quo of male domination. The only analysis that looks at our current world from women’s point of view and with women's interest in mind.
And radical feminists - the women who speak, write and shape feminist thought, who are public and loud, are by definition brave people, because they are going against a powerful world order that definitely doesn't want to have its power challenged. A world order that punishes women who make too much noise.
If those radical feminists are deliberately silenced, chased out of their jobs, their institutions, deplatformed, even chased out of their countries, or threatened with violence - like this episode’s guest, founder of Feminist Current Meghan Murphy was - we are silencing the only people who can explain to the rest of us what the patriarchy is up to.
Credits
Host: Elle Kamihira
Produced by Elle Kamihira
Audio Engineering by Jason Sheesley at Abridged Audio
Cover Art by Bee Johnson
Music by Beware of Darkness
Meghan Murphy
Writer & Founder of Feminist Current
Meghan Murphy is a Canadian writer now based in Mexico. She founded Feminist Current, Canada's leading feminist website, in 2012, which brings original, woman-centered analysis and interviews to listeners around the world. Meghan testified against Canada's gender identity legislation in 2017, and was one of the first and only women to articulate a feminist challenge to gender identity legislation in Canada at the time. She has hosted and produced the Feminist Current podcast since 2012 The Same Drugs podcast since 2020. Meghan was banned from Twitter in 2018 for referring to a man as "he" and for saying that "men aren't women." Her Twitter account was restored four years later, in November of 2022. Meghan has spoken around the world about the issue of gender identity legislation and women’s rights, including at the Canadian Senate and Scottish Parliament.
Meghan’s writing can be found in publications such as Truthdig, The Globe and Mail, Ms. Magazine, National Post, rabble.ca, xoJane, Vice, the CBC, The Vancouver Observer, UnHerd, Quillette, New Statesman and The Spectator. She appears frequently on podcasts and broadcast talk shows, including Joe Rogan Experience Triggernometry, Real Talk with Zuby, Blocked and Reported, NewsHub Nation, CBC radio, Sun News, Fox News, Scotland Tonight, BBC Radio 5, and The Hill. She is currently working on a book project of her own, which takes a critical look at third wave feminism.