Soraya Chemaly, Author of RAGE BECOMES HER On How Women Learn To Fear Their Own Anger

Soraya Chemaly is a Bahamian-American author, activist, feminist and the author of RAGE BECOMES HER. She’s written as a freelance journalist for The Atlantic, Time, The Guardian, Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine, among others, on topics including freedom of expression, gender, women's rights, sexualized violence, media and technology. She is also the Director of the Women's Media Centre Speech Project, and has been named among other things, one of Elle Magazine’s 25 most inspiring women to follow on Twitter.


Chemaly's first book is titled "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger." In it she examines the causes of female rage, the ways in which we are socialized to suppress it, and the psychological, sociological, biological and political consequences of that paradigm.


On today’s podcast, she describes the day she came home from school to find her mother smashing every plate in kitchen, and then calmly asking about her day. We look at how failing to express our anger hurts us, and who it helps. We dive deep into how we are still, sadly…teaching our kids to internalize the sense that women and girl's rights to our own anger are somehow less important than our responsibility to keep the peace.


Soraya traces the historical context for the underpinnings of the system that supports this dynamic, and offers some ideas for how we can shift it...beginning with examples she herself has learned first hand, in a place as innocuous as a preschool.

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