#160 - Rage Becomes Her: Why Self-Care Won’t Save Us with Soraya Chemaly

In the countdown to the 2020 election I interviewed Soraya
Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger -
an amazing book she wrote after 2016 election delving into the
reasons why women can’t be angry without being called “unhinged”
or a “b*”.


Our conversation includes:


how the progressive white male was most “shocked” with 2016
results

why the power differential between men and women hurts
EVERYONE (hello, judges of Kamala Harris' facial expressions)

why the ideology of separate spheres keeps us divided — and
struggling to maintain our mental health, hence all those bubble
baths and lavender oil treatments. (Raising my hand to that...
its great, right, but... is it really enough?)

Soraya also shares the historical context of gender roles and
intersectional feminism to provide convincing reasons why
self-care rituals fall short of any real solutions while
remaining vitally important for us to do.



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About Soraya
Soraya Chemaly is currently Executive Director of The
Representation Project. An award-winning author and activist, she
writes and speaks frequently on topics related to gender norms,
inclusivity, social justice, free speech, sexualized violence,
and technology. The former director and co-founder of the Women’s
Media Center Speech Project, she has long been committed to
expanding women’s civic and political participation.


Her work as a writer, activist and organizer is featured widely
in media, books, and academic research. She is the author of Rage
Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, which has been
translated into several languages, and a contributor to multiple
anthologies, most recently Free Speech in the Digital Age and
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change The World.


Prior to 2010, Ms. Chemaly spent more than fifteen years as a
market development executive and consultant in the media and data
technology industries. After several years in market development
at the Gannett Corporation, she moved into the datatech sector at
Claritas, ending her tenure there as SVP of Marketing Strategy.


Soraya currently serves on the national boards of the Women's
Media Center, Women in Journalism, and the DC Volunteer Lawyers
Project. She has also served on the boards of Women, Action and
the advisory councils of the Center for Democracy and Technology,
VIDA, Secular Woman, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, No Bully, and
Common Sense Media. As an activist, Ms. Chemaly has spear-headed
multiple successful campaigns challenging corporations to address
online harassment and abuse, restrictive content moderation and
censorship, and institutional biases that affect free speech.


In 2013, Soraya won the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC)'s Award for Feminist Advocacy
and the Secular Woman Activism Award. In 2014, she was named one
of Elle Magazine's 25 Inspiring Women to Follow in social media,
and, in 2016, the recipient of the Women’s Institute for Freedom
of the Press’s Women and Media Award. In 2017, she was the
co-recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature
of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report on free speech and
social media, and a Wikipedia Distinguished Service Award for
exemplary contributions to the advancement of public knowledge
and educational content. In 2019, she was awarded the Feminist
Press’ Feminist Power Award.


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