Leta Hong Fincher洪理达
@letahongfincher.bsky.social
Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo agoSince PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...
A Survivor’s Education
A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...
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This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 4d agoMichael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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AMERICAN HAGWON author @minjinlee.bsky.social said growing up in NY "allowed me to really see my experience as being central. I think that I never felt like this statistical anomaly, because New York is made up of statistical anomalies, minorities and immigrants." travel.yahoo.com/advice/lifes...
Go away with ... Min Jin Lee
For critically-acclaimed author Min Jin Lee, the in-depth research she did for her latest novel “American Hagwon” – out Sept. 29 – included extensive visits across three continents to ensure that her ...
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Journalist and #MeToo Activist Sophia Huang Xueqin Released From Prison After Five Years
Journalist and #MeToo Activist Sophia Huang Xueqin Released From Prison After Five Years
Sophia Huang Xueqin, a journalist whose reporting on human rights and sexual abuse helped to galvanize China’s #MeToo movement, was scheduled to be released
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🚨CPJ and partner organizations call on the Chinese authorities to ensure journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin is freed without any arbitrary restrictions, as she approaches the end of a five-year prison sentence. https://cpj.org/?p=619869
CPJ, partners urge China to ensure #MeToo journalist Sophia Huang’s freedom as jail term nears end - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, September 15, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations call on the Chinese authorities to ensure journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin is freed without any arbitrary restrictions, as she approaches the end of a five-year prison sentence. Huang, whose reporting on human rights and sexual abuse helped spark China’s #MeToo movement, is due...
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Thinking more about Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, here’s the first interview Robin did with me on her podcast about my other book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. At one point I tell her that I’m a huge fan of hers and rather awestruck. wmclive.libsyn.com/wmc-live-277...
Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan: WMC Live #277: Leta Hong Fincher. (Original Airdate 2/24/2019)
Robin on national emergencies, Cardinal McCarrick, "embryo adoption," and why the North Pole is moving, plus Part 3 of "Women’s Suffrage(s)." Guest: Leta Hong Fincher on her book Betraying Big Brother...
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RIP, another great feminist icon, Robin Morgan. I was honored to be a guest on her podcast, speaking about the 10th anniversary edition of my book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China womensmediacenter.com/wmclive/wmc-...
WMC Live #422: Ancient Societies, Modern Crises. (Original Airdate 11/12/2023) - Women’s Media Center
Robin explores China's new plans for women with her special guest, Leta Hong Fincher, author of Leftover Women. And Robin's commentary on the Israel-Gaza war.
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Wrote a thing about Gloria Steinem and how profoundly feminism changed and continues to change the world.
Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone
To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p...
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The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
RIP, the magnificent Gloria Steinem. Thank you for showing me the way ❤️🙏 💐 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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In independence, Missouri, hometown of Harry Truman, tonight city councilman John Perkins got absolutely rocked, losing a recall election with 68% voting to end his term immediately over his vote to approve a big data center. www.kmbc.com/article/inde...
Independence Councilman John Perkins recalled after voting to approve multibillion-dollar data center
Independence voters recalled District 1 Councilman John Perkins following his vote to approve a multibillion-dollar data center project.
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I don't think I've ever read such an ecstatic book review by a major critic. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Can't get numb to this: it's frightening how Trump et al have normalized lawless behavior by govt officials. US govt cruelty to immigrants is not remotely new, but people like Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, moved the Overton window on accepting scandalous outrages. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · last mo.The Trump regime is looking for immigrant detention camps big enough to hold up to 3,000 children. At an industry roundtable discussion, officials wouldn't say exactly where or when they need them, only that they’re expecting a “surge.” New from me in @prospect.org.
My hair stylist said her cousin was just ambushed and arrested by ICE agents without a warrant during her last immigration interview for US citizenship after living here for 24 years. #AbolishICE
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
Since Jared has been acting as un diplomate sans portefeuille, I've been shocked no U.S. news org has gone on an editorial campaign against it. Most stories about Jared and the Logan Act date from 2017. Was there some court decision that I missed about it In the interim? Why was this just dropped?
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe should consider developing a standing body of government officials who are trained in diplomacy and can be sent around the world to negotiate the interests of the USA, so the president doesn't have to send his grifting son-in-law, who doesn't have any skills or training or government clearances.
Going through my mom’s old boxes, I discovered this poster for the play I adapted and directed my senior year at Harvard, 1990: ‘Jesus, Confucius and John Lennon’, a political comedy by Chinese playwright Sha Yexin 沙叶新.
Going through my mom’s old boxes, I discovered this poster for the play I adapted and directed my senior year at Harvard, 1990: ‘Jesus, Confucius and John Lennon’, a political comedy by Chinese playwright Sha Yexin 沙叶新.