What’s Current: Ontario teacher photographed wearing prothetic breasts in the classroom spotted out in ‘regular men’s clothing’

  • The Ontario teacher photographed wearing cartoonishly large prosthetic breasts in the classroom is photographed wearing regular men’s clothes, breast-free, out in public, leading some to question whether the man is pulling some kind of stunt.
  • California and San Francisco are looking at legalizing prostitution, which experts say will exacerbate sex trafficking, including of minors. “If you legalize it, you increase demand and so you have to increase supply,” says a survivor of sex trafficking in San Francisco named Elizabeth Quiroz, in a report by Leighton Woodhouse and Michael Shellenberger. “Already, sex trafficking has increased two- to threefold since last June, when Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation by San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener that removed the criminal prohibition on loitering with the intent to solicit prostitution,” they explain.
  • Artist Nina Paley has launched a new crowdfunder after her first one was cancelled by Indiegogo with zero notice, shortly after the campaign exceeded its goal. She says:

“Unlike my past work, Compliance Comics complies 100% with Indiegogo’s Terms of Use.

While it’s not clear exactly which Community Guidelines my previous work violated, because Trust and Safety has no obligation to tell me, I can guarantee Compliance is 100% free of the following:

      • Gambling
      • Drugs or Alcohol
      • Investments or Profit Sharing
      • Harassment or Hate Speech
      • Nudity or Sexually Explicit Content
      • Promoting any form of violence
      • Weapons, Ammunition, and Related Accessories
      • Air Transportation
      • Political Campaigns
      • Medication and Dietary Supplements
      • Reselling

In particular, Compliance Comics contains nothing that could be interpreted by even the most politically motivated Trust & Safety expert as:

      • Any form of degradation, subjugation, discrimination or hatred against individuals or groups based on race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity

Unfortunately I can’t do anything about my sex, which is not a protected characteristic, but fingers crossed they’ll overlook it this time!”

Meghan Murphy

Founder & Editor

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.