Soraya Chemaly
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social
Journalist, activist, and reluctant expert on online harassment and free speech • I write about politics, tech, education, religion, and media. Pick up a copy of All We Want is Everything if you want to think about male supremacy and what we do about it!
As political scientists and security experts have demonstrated for years, the safety and status of women and girls in homes is the best predictor of wider violence and state militarism Critically important piece from @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/31-every-m...
31. Every Massacre Starts in Someone’s Kitchen: A Weekend Long Read
Femicide is a word that exists, but you would never know it.
sorayachemaly.substack.com
This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.
Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles away
Women in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence.
bbc.co.uk
Boston University is the latest school to offer free tuition to students whose families earn up to $200,000. The university said students entering this fall will benefit from the tuition pledge, which also covers a portion of housing and dining costs.
Boston University offers free tuition to families earning up to $200,000
The private university joins a growing list of highly ranked schools that are expanding their financial aid.
washingtonpost.com
Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.
Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identity
One of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
Let's keep our eyes on Nolan Wells. This young man deserves our remembrance & his family deserves our support. It seems only Black people nationally, Mississippi, & Ms Rachel care. But you all should know hearts hurt over this. If you want to know what's on the minds of Black America, it's this.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2w agoI wish everyone approached the Nolan Wells story with the care Duvalier Malone does. Care for truth. Care for the grieving family. Care for the grieving friends. Care for the history of mistreatment that informs Black Mississippians distrust of the system. It's all the above.
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
60 minutes sounds way too long for Ross Douthat
Dr. Joseph Ladapo was addressing the uptick of measles cases in Florida when he said it could be because it’s a vaccine that’s “related to the practice of abortion” www.jezebel.com/florida-surg...
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2w agoMy Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
29. What Teenage Boys Already Know: What's a Little Rape Compared to a Man's Potential? A Weekend Long Read open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...
29. What Teenage Boys Already Know: What's a Little Rape Compared to a Man's Potential? A Weekend Long Read
About boyhood, moral injury, and the institutional machinery built to protect men we failed to raise differently.
open.substack.com
So if you were around when I first criticized Platner you might remember me and a few other female vets talking about this being a likely reveal. At the time one of his earliest defenders insisted it was our bias. No, it was our experience www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/g...
Platner Senate campaign taking 'time to reflect' on path forward after sexual assault allegation
Platner and his campaign denied the accusations made by 41-year-old Maine resident Jenny Racicot in a POLITICO article published Monday.
cnbc.com
If not needing Daddy to fight your battles for you & you win 4 World Cup championship’s was a picture
A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?
counterpoint: there's already a new sexual revolution, it's called "women worldwide are opting out of marriage/children, preferring queer relationships at higher rates than men &generally have had enough of patriarchy's shit" ( @sorayachemaly.bsky.social would say "enuf of male supremacy's shit"🔥✊)
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo agoWow. And no. “I am not completely opposed to contraception. I think, though, that women in particular should behave as if contraception doesn’t exist… Maybe that’s my concrete proposal: that you should use contraception within marriage rather than as a means of seeming to have consequence-free sex.”
@jaclynf.bsky.social and @sorayachemaly.bsky.social are here to deliver the good news: Americans want trans-inclusive sex ed! Listen to them talk it out on the Women's Media Center. 👭
Women’s Media Center@womensmediacenter.bsky.social · last mo.The majority of Americans actually want trans-inclusive, comprehensive sex ed. Jaclyn Friedman (@educateusaction.bsky.social) explains: womensmediacenter.com/news-feature... Watch her full #WMCTalks episode here: womensmediacenter.com/talks/sex-ed...
“Ireland’s parliament has voted to remove a mandatory three-day wait for abortion during early pregnancy after campaigners said the rule was an unnecessary restriction.” 👍👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Irish parliament votes to remove three-day abortion wait
Waiting period before receiving medication was included in draft law to gain support for abortion ban in 2018 referendum
theguardian.com
the world falling apart sucks real bad, but it's amazing that New York somehow slipped into an Disney Channel Original Movie alternate reality where our problems are fixed by Mayor Socialism and the Power of Friendship wins basketball championships.
More than 150 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas have been infected with influenza over the past three weeks — less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated against the flu.
Flu sickens some 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas
The outbreak comes less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said American troops would no longer be required to get an annual flu shot.
washingtonpost.com
Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.
14 thought leaders on Allyship in the Workplace worth following (Part 3 of 4): @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social — Legal Scholar & Activist @ibramxk.bsky.social — Author & Scholar @austinchanning.bsky.social — Author & Speaker @sorayachemaly.bsky.social — Author & Activist Who would you add?
Just seeing a lot of people who REALLY need to read @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's newest book, on the crisis of male supremacy. www.feministbookclub.com/all-we-want-...
All We Want is Everything with Soraya Chemaly
We’re not joking when we say this one is required listening. Mariquita talks with author and activist Soraya Chemaly about her latest book, All We Want is
feministbookclub.com
Another one that I'm steadily devouring (I have to pace myself because the material in this makes me RAGE but that's kind of the point, there's a lot of processing that goes with this book). RAGE BECOMES HER by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social is a must read in this time of patriarchal backlash.
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
time.com
Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.
"Regardless of how boys and men operate in school systemically, structurally in our societies, they still maintain power," Chemaly said. "So as long as that disconnect between performance and power is relevant, then investments in education become less and less important for boys."
Boys are falling behind in school, and some experts say it starts in kindergarten | CBC News
A new report submitted to the Quebec government says boys are "systemically disadvantaged" in their school system. Meanwhile, new Health Canada data shows higher rates of young men aged 15 to 24 suffe...
cbc.ca
This article made me rage and then I saw they at least gave @sorayachemaly.bsky.social a paragraph and felt sliiiiiightly better. For the 1s time in human history, men are less educated but still make significantly more money and have more power than women. How is THAT not the whole conversation?
#2026Reads 051/100 ALL WE WANT IS EVERYTHING by Soraya Chemaly Recommended to me by a customer who must’ve sense my general vibe. The statistics inside will fill you with rage, and I appreciate Chemaly’s refusal to sugarcoat how male supremacy has harmed all of us in ways big & small.
