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Soraya Chemaly
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social
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Journalist, activist, and reluctant expert on online harassment and free speech • I write about politics, tech, education, religion, and media 
#feminism #gender #tech #LGTBQIA Upcoming book is all about male supremacy. 

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sorayachemaly.bsky.social
If you are in DC please come to and share this fundraiser for DC Abortion Fund on Wednesday, 19th! Tickets are just $41and first 20 to sign up get a free copy of All We Want is Everything. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/all-we-wan...
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
The Epstein files news broke right before we filmed, so I asked @sorayachemaly.bsky.social her thoughts. She explains the bigger picture.

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Epstein’s ties to Trump and a country that’s stopped caring
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November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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sesmith.lol
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Coming soon to a bookstore near you: "All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy"

From private relationships to global politics, @sorayachemaly.bsky.social shows how naming and refusing male supremacy is essential to resisting the forces tearing democracy apart.
All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy
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October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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educateusaction.bsky.social
Award winning author @sorayachemaly.bsky.social is previewing her new manifesto “All We Want is Everything” this Tuesday at our Know Means Know event on How We Dismantle Male Supremacy. Have you registered yet? Register here: buff.ly/om16MlM
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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wbur.org
Women told WBUR that at first, they assumed the company’s higher ups would do everything they could to find who planted the camera. But six years and one lawsuit later, they said they feel John Hancock may have been more interested in protecting the company than finding the perpetrator.
A camera spied on women at John Hancock. Six years later, no one has been held accountable
Women told WBUR that at first, they assumed the financial services company’s higher ups would do everything they could to find who planted the camera. But six years and one lawsuit later, they said th...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
sorayachemaly.bsky.social
All We Want is Everything Goodreads Giveaway, 100 copies, open til Oct 27, enter here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Suprem…
From the award-winning author of a “battle-cry of …
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October 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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sadiesinsbooks.com
For all my research in #trauma, much was about understanding why, how the brain breaks, how to "unbreak" it. Little went into the aftermath. Self-care required demonstrations, something void in my life. My caregivers each held this resilience myth even as they took in children who needed a family.
Excerpt from The Resilience Myth by Soraya Chemaly: Being Human Means Being "Needy" It is rarely our conscious intent, but we do three things simultaneously when we talk about resilience as strength and mental toughness First, we implicitly confirm belief in a mind/body split. Second, with that split, we inscribe the hierarchy of mind over body. Third, we tacitly institutionalize this ordering of ideas, in our thinking and doing, in damaging gender stereotypes. Our imaginations are permeated with a chain of understanding: resilience = strength = mental toughness = self-sufficiency and physical power. This makes need for comfort, help, or resources a weakness. In this estimation, the mind isn't simply more important than the body, but its prioritization winnows the body's meaning, capacities, and value. Mind-over-matter resilience is replete with scorn for "unfit bodies, quickly making ableism foundational. This framework creates a fundamental structural problem for resilience: systematized cultural disdain for bodies, their needs, and the people who care for them. This makes it easier to subject bodies to brutalization and to minimize our material needs: food, water, care, and time to heal. Take mental toughness. A play on resilient strength, mental toughness conveys both strength of mind and, slyly and consequentially, a disdain for physical weakness. The linguistic inverse of mental toughness is physical frailty. An essential element of any mental toughness program is learning to ignore physical pain and 4 Excerpt (continued) from The Resilience Myth by Soraya Chemaly emotional distress. People who don't, won't, or can't do this are somehow inferior. It's worth pointing out how deeply gendered all of this thinking is. Need, bodies, and their vulnerabilities are seen as feminine qualities juxtaposed with masculine strength and rationality. Demeaning and making people feel vulnerable is tantamount to putting them in a feminine box: dependent, needy, and physically vulnerable. Even if a woman is mentally tough, qualities associated with manhood define her resilience. In contrast, qualities associated with femininity -- emotions, needs, irrationality, physical weakness, dependence -- undermine her power in the eyes of others. By these standards, can you be resilient and still have human needs? Can you be soft, sensitive, feminine? Photo of a brightly colored paperback book titled: The Resilience Myth New Thinking On Grit, Strength, And Growth After Trauma Bestselling Author Of Rage Becomes Her Soraya Chemaly
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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educateusaction.bsky.social
Join us and the amazing Soraya Chemaly (award-winning author of *Rage Becomes Her* and our board member!) for a preview of her new manifesto “All We Want is Everything” on identifying and rejecting male supremacy in our daily lives: buff.ly/cmxuzRh
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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clbergpowers.bsky.social
This is true and important, and also, much like confederate monuments erected as backlash to Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, Columbus Day is about crafting a specific cultural narrative, specifically in this case, a fascist aligned one commonwealthbeacon.org/arts-and-cul...
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
Over the summer, men bet on whether someone would throw a dildo onto a WNBA court. Wired has since found they're gambling on something much worse.
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Men Found Another Disgusting Way to Bet on WNBA Games
Over the summer, men bet on whether someone would throw a dildo onto a WNBA court. Wired has since found they're gambling on something much worse.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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jaclynf.bsky.social
Completely co-sign. This is basically how @sorayachemaly.bsky.social, @laurabates.bsky.social and I forced Facebook to take hate speech against women seriously in 2013.
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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robsonfletcher.com
"Jennifer Young, spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Canada, said the current U.S. government shutdown prevents the embassy from commenting on the change."
Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News
The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years
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October 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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brat2381.bsky.social
l honestly feel like BW have spent years screaming into the void.

Long before we got to today & the DOJ, cooperations, & MSM are trying to re-write history, BW were begging y’all to pay attention to Charlie Kirk & his organization.

This is me…over 5 years ago begging folks to pay attention.
September 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧
September 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.
September 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM