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Soraya Chemaly
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Soraya Chemaly
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Feminist. Irate but like to laugh. Reluctant expert in online hate. Author of best-selling Rage Becomes Her and just-released The Resilience Myth.
- New York resident Tara Rule was denied medication for crushing cluster headaches because she is of ‘childbearing age.’ She is suing the hospital for prioritizing the "life" of a nonexistant and hypothetical fetus
- Just to be clear, the entire planet is being held hostage and threatened by fragile and toxic masculinity. Calling these men babies or children insults babies and children.UPDATED: Brazil says no to G7 aid, but may relent if Macron 'withdraws insults' ctv.news/8Uf9vPb
- What hostile sexism looks like: Dr. Katie Bouman’s reputation is being battered across multiple platforms. Her Wikipedia profile, marked for deletion, fake accounts, her work attributed to a man (he’s renounced the lies). “Trolls” doesn’t capture it: organized sexist harassment.
- Less than 24 hours
- Thinking that Warren is “too much,” “nasty,” and “mean” because she is assertive, aggressive, dominant, and defending women is how we ended up with Trump.
- On any given day, there are 600,000+ frozen embryos housed in fertility clinics and labs across the US. All it takes to dispose of or donate one is signing a form. No interference, shaming, protests, or terrorists. Never say this is about life and not women's freedom.
- Incredibly sad and difficult to share. In my experience, most people don’t want this knowledge, but not talking about these crimes only helps perpetrators. 19-year old Nusrat Jahan Rafi was burned to death for reporting sexual harassment, at her school
- 26% of Sanders supporters would support Donald Trump if the 2020 race ended up being between Trump and Elizabeth Warren. Some people call this “weird.” The rest of us call it misogyny. forbes.com/sites/michaeld…
- Teenage boys with more progressive views about gender are half as likely to engage in violent behaviors as peers with rigid views about masculinity and gender, new study finds. Another reason to be explicit about gender equity in early childhood education.
- “Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic.” Really, is there no end to men affronted by women’s authority? Is it worse with women who’re successful (and so, often, legitimized) by standards optimized for male success? SO TIRESOME.Such an incredibly bad take. Sail on, Dr. Biden. wsj.com/articles/is-th…
- Officer Brett Hankison, Named in Breonna Taylor Killing, is Accused by 2 Women of Sexual Assault
- A woman who was 11 when she was forced to marry her rapist has worked for six years to ban child marriages in Florida. On Friday, she was hailed as a hero after the Legislature passed a bill prohibiting marriage for anyone under 17. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
- WH @PressSec just announced @USTreasury is moving forward to put Harriet Tubman on the new $20 bills. I appreciate critiques, but am really happy to see this and know that Andrew Jackson is no longer going to be memorialized this way.
