Meghan Murphy is a Canadian freelance writer and journalist, best known as the founder and editor of Feminist Current, Canada's leading feminist website.

Meghan Murphy lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with her dog, Emma. Meghan enjoys wine and swear words. ^[1]

In 2013, Meghan Murphy graduated from The University of British Columbia with a master's degree in Journalism. She also graduated from Simon Fraser University with a master's in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies in 2012. Megan previously graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies in 2010.

Meghan Murhpy began her radio career in 2007 working for the pirate radio show, The F Word, in a trailer in the middle of a sheep field. The show and aired from a tiny Gulf Island off the coast of British Columbia. She enjoyed the free culture of the pirate radio show, drinking beer, reading passages from Andrea Dworkin, and playing The Notorious BIG .

Meghan later returned to her hometown of Vancouver, where she joined the coincidentally named F Word radio show, which she hosted and produced until 2012.

The Feminist Current podcast is Meghan’s current “radio” project, bringing progressive, critical, feminist analysis and interviews to listeners.

Meghan Murphy has been writing about feminism since 2010.

She is known breaking the status quo as a feminist writer and was the first to publish a critique of the SlutWalk movement, in 2011. She was also one of few popular feminist bloggers to publicly articulate both a radical feminist and socialist position against the sex industry. Meghan’s critiques of third wave feminism, #twitterfeminism, burlesque, self-objectification in selfies, gender identity politics, and choice feminism have brought both acclaim and attacks, but most of all recognition as a writer who isn’t afraid to say something different, despite what popular feminism and mainstream media deem to be the party line.

In July, 2012 Meghan Murphy founded Feminist Current, Canada's leading feminist website. The site and podcast of the same name cover topics including male violence against women, pop culture, popular culture, current events, sexuality, gender, and multiple other issues.

Meghan Murphy has written for publications including Truthdig, The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, Al Jazeera, Ms. Magazine, AlterNet, Herizons, The Tyee, Megaphone Magazine, Good, National Post, Verily Magazine, Ravishly, rabble.ca, xoJane, Vice, The Vancouver Observer, and New Statesman.

Meghan is a contributor to Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism and is currently working on a book project of her own, which takes a critical look at third wave feminism and calls for a return to second wave feminism.

Meghan has appeared on CBC Radio, Sun News, The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, BBC Radio 5, and Al Jazeera English, as well as many other media outlets.

Meghan also teaches workshops on writing, interview techniques, blogging, feminist journalism, and podcasting.

She has spoken on and moderated panels about sexism in the media, feminist journalism, and women writers.

On several occasions since August 2018, Murphy has been suspended from Twitter and asked to delete certain tweets about transgender issues that violated its hateful conduct policy.This suspension was made permanent November 23, 2018.

On Monday February 11, 2019, she filed a lawsuit against Twitter, saying the social-media platform unfairly banned her because her criticism of transgender rights doesn’t line up with the company’s politics.