Soraya Lisa Catherine Chemaly (born 1966 in Florida) is a Bahamian-American author, activist and feminist. She became famous in Germany with her book Speak out! The Power of Female Anger.
Soraya Lisa Catherine Chemaly (born 1966 in Florida) is a Bahamian-American author, activist and feminist. She became famous in Germany with her book Speak out! The Power of Female Anger.
Soraya Chemaly was born in Florida in 1966. Her parents are Edward and Norma Chemaly of Nassau, Bahamas. [1] She descends from Bahamians and Arab Christians who emigrated from Jordan and Lebanon to Haiti in the 1920s. [2] She grew up a strict Catholic in the Bahamas, where her parents owned a chain of gift shops. [1]
After she graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, she began studying Catholic theology, history, and women's studies. As a student, she founded the feminist magazine The New Press. She graduated Magna cum laude from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1988. By the time she left the university, she said she was a "feminist atheist". [3] Chemaly was inducted as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
In the 1990s, she worked at the Gannett Company media company in Washington, D.C.. [1] Until 2010, she worked as a marketing consultant in the media and IT industry.
As a freelance journalist and author, she has written for The Atlantic , Time , The Guardian , Huffington Post and the feminist magazine Ms. , among others She deals with the topics of freedom of expression, gender, women's rights, sexualised violence, media and technology. She is also the director of the Women's Media Centre Speech Project, an initiative to promote women in political fields.
Soraya Chemaly has been married since 1992. [1] She lives in Washington, D.C. Her mother-in-law, Patricia Bleecker Jones, served as president general of the Colonial Dames of America. [1]
In 2015, Chemaly won the "Donna Allen Award" for feminist advocacy and the "Secular Woman Feminist Activism Award" from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication . [4] In 2014, she was named one of the 25 most inspiring women to follow on Twitter by the magazine Elle . [5] In 2016, she received the Women and Media Award from the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). [6] She was a co-recipient of the 2017 Mirror Award from the Newhouse School of Public Communications for the best individual feature of 2016, an investigative report on free speech and moderation of online content. [7]
Chemaly's first book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger was published in 2018 and was reviewed in the New York Times and the Washington Post , among others. [8] [9] The New Yorker devoted an in-depth essay to the topic of the book. Chemaly presents an in-depth examination of the causes of female rage. [10] The book was published in 2019 in French, [11] Italian, Spanish and Dutch translations. It was published in German translation by Suhrkamp Verlag in May 2020 under the title Speak out! The power of female rage.
In it, the author works her way "through all the current variants of discrimination against women"; as a Woman of Colour , she "always thinks about racist discrimination, as well as the discrimination of queer people", wrote Susanne Billig in Deutschlandfunk Kultur. She moves "thrillingly" back and forth "between gripping reports of experience and impressive research into psychological, sociological, biological and political science studies." [12] Susan Vahabzadeh ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) read the book as "alternately a flaming manifesto, a report of self-experience and a derivation from studies". Most women would agree with Soraya Chemaly from experience: Anger is not welcomed in women. [13] In the TAZ, Helen Roth concluded that Chemaly's book "puts an end to the myth of women as abrupt and vengeful xanthippes", she develops "an image of women that has the power to reshape society into a free and more open one." [14]
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