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.