Soraya Chemaly

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Soraya Chemaly (2017)

Soraya Lisa Catherine Chemaly (born 1966 in Florida ) is an American author , activist, and feminist . In Germany she was recognized with her book Speak out! The power of female anger is known.

Life

Soraya Chemaly is descended from Arab Christians who emigrated to Haiti from Jordan and Lebanon in the 1920s . She was born in the USA and raised a strict Catholic in the Bahamas , where her parents owned a chain of gift shops. After graduating from high school from Phillips Academy , she began studying Catholic theology , then history and women's studies . As a student, she founded the feminist magazine The New Press . She graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1988 with magna cum laude . When she left university, she said she was a "feminist atheist ". Chemaly was accepted as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa . In the 1990s she worked for the media company Gannett Company in Washington . Until 2010 she worked as a marketing consultant in the media and IT industry.

As a freelance journalist and author, she writes a. a. for The Atlantic , Time , The Guardian , Huffington Post and the feminist magazine Ms. She works on the topics of freedom of expression , gender , women's rights , sexual violence , media and technology. She is also the director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project , an initiative to promote women in political areas.

Soraya Chemaly has been married since 1992 and has two daughters. She lives in Washington, DC

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In 2013 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 . In 2014 Elle magazine named her one of the 25 Most Inspirational Women to Follow on Twitter . In 2016 she received the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP) Women's and Media Prize . In 2017 she was a co-recipient of the Mirror Award from the Newhouse School of Public Communications for the best single feature of 2016, an investigative report on freedom of speech and moderation of online content.

reception

Chemaly's first book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger , was published in 2018. a. discussed in the New York Times and Washington Post . The New Yorker dedicated an extensive essay to the subject of the book. Chemaly presented an in-depth study of the causes of female anger. The book was published in 2019 in French, 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 anger .

The author works her way “through all current variants of women's discrimination”, as a woman of color she always thinks “racist discrimination, as well as the disadvantage of queer people”, wrote Susanne Billig in Deutschlandfunk Kultur . She moves "thrilling" back and forth "between gripping reports and impressive research into psychological, sociological, biological and political science studies". Susan Vahabzadeh ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) read the book as "alternately flaming manifesto, self-experience report and derivation from studies". Most women would agree with Soraya Chemaly from experience: women don't like anger. In the TAZ , Helen Roth drew the conclusion: Chemaly's book "put an end to the myth of women as a sudden and vengeful Xanthippe ", she developed "an image of women that has the power to transform society into a free and more open one".

Publications

Books

monograph
  • Speak out! The power of female anger , from American English by Kirsten Riesselmann and Gesine Schröder, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-46946-0
Book chapters (selection)
  • Constructing the Future. The Believe Me Internet , in: Jessica Valenti , Jaclyn Friedman (eds.): Believe me: How trusting Women can change the World , Basic Books, New York 2020, ISBN 978-1-58005-879-7 , pp. 93– 110
  • Demographics, Design, and Frei Speech: How Demographics have produced Social Media Optimized for Abuse and the Silencing of Marginalized Voices , in: Susan J. Brison, Katharine Gelber (Ed.): Free Speech in the Digital Age , Oxford Univ. Press 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-088359-1 , pp. 150-169
  • Dresscodes or How Schools Skirt around Sexism and Homophobia , in: Katie Cappiello et al .: SLUT. A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence , Feminist Press at City University of New York, 2015, ISBN 978-1-55861-870-1 , pp. 229-236
  • Slut-Shaming and Sex Police: Social Media, Sex, and Free Speech , in: Shira Tarrant (Ed.): Gender, Sex, Politics. In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century , Taylor & Francis, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-73783-8 , pp. 125-140

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literature

Web links

Commons : Soraya Chemaly  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chemaly, Soraya, 1966 -, Interview with Rachel F. Seidman: Speaking of Feminism: Today's Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of Feminism , University of North Carolina, December 2015 (audio and transcript)
  2. ^ New York Times, November 29, 1992
  3. ↑ Ask a Feminist: Soraya Chemaly Discusses Feminist Rage with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra , in: Signs , Audio-Podcast (45.26 min.) And Transcript
  4. ^ The AWP Party. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Kate Winick: 25 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter. March 6, 2015, Retrieved July 16, 2020 (American English).
  6. ^ Women and Media Award , Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
  7. ^ Winners Announced in Newhouse's 11th Annual Mirror Awards Competition. In: SU News. Retrieved July 16, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ Elaine Blair: The Power of Enraged Women , The New York Times, September 27, 2018
  9. ↑ Astrid Riecken: Why women's rage is healthy, rational and necessary for America , Review in: The Washington Post, September 21, 2018
  10. ^ Casey Chep: The Perils and Possibilities of Anger , The New Yorker, October 8, 2018
  11. ↑ Stéphanie O'Brien: Soraya Chemaly: "Une fille apprend très tôt à ravaler sa colère" , Madame Figaro, November 28, 2019
  12. ↑ Susanne Billig: Intellectual Strike Against Dominance Culture, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, book review from June 24, 2020
  13. ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Self-Empowerment. Anger suits her well , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 18, 2020
  14. ↑ Helen Roth: Misogyny and Racism. Do not be appeased , TAZ, June 12, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Chemaly, Soraya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chemaly, Soraya Lisa Catherine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Florida