What’s Current: Sexism in Silicon Valley, femvertisement, and abortions for everyone!

The all-female Ghostbusters will be good for Hollywood.

Why I have no time for allies: “Solidarity was not an identity, it was an action.”

Movement calls for Reproductive Health groups to “Stop saying and stop thinking that abortion is a women’s issue,” because it’s “exclusionary.” Two organizations have responded by allocating funds to erase the term “women” from their language.

The cost of educating a child vs. the cost of housing a prisoner

Newsweek’s cover for Silicon Valley article normalizes sexual harassment.

Dove is at it again with another “femvertisement.” Because instead of actually changing anything, maybe we can just shout “ACCEPT YOURSELF!” repeatedly at young girls. It’s their attitude that’s the problem here.

Celebrate International Women’s Day by nominating an exceptional journalist reporting on girls’ and women’s health and rights!

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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.