What’s Current: Right wing artist claims responsibility for ‘she knew’ posters attacking Meryl Streep

  • A right wing artist has claimed responsibility for the “she knew” posters, attempting to blame Meryl Streep for enabling Harvey Weinstein. Sabo, a 49-year-old man, said the campaign exists to retaliate against Streep for criticizing Donald Trump. “She’s swiping at us so we’re swiping back,” he said.
  • Christian Sarile, a male schoolteacher in Calgary, is facing 49 criminal charges related to the sexual abuse of 22 girls. The charges include sexual assault, sexual interference, and accessing and distributing child pornography.
  • A couple in Ireland are the first to be charged with female genital mutilation in the country.
  • Statistics Canada and some major municipal police forces are not accurately or reliably tracking cases of missing Indigenous women.
  • Irish people travelling home for Christmas are affixing “healthcare not airfare” tags to their luggage. The campaign is an attempt to highlight the fact that, every day, 11 Irish women have to leave the country to access legal abortions.
Lisa Steacy

Lisa Steacy is an Assistant Editor at Feminist Current. She has a B.A. in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. However, the women she met in her five years as a frontline worker and collective member with Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter deserve almost all of the credit for her feminist education. She lives in Vancouver with her partner and their cats.