🎙️ Soraya Chemaly (@sorayachemaly.bsky.social) — award-winning author and activist Juliana Dal Piva — Brazilian reporter, Jabuti finalist and 2025 Courage in Journalism honouree Karyn Maughan — South African legal journalist targeted by Jacob Zuma in an abusive private prosecution

I'm about halfway through book 15 now but I finished this one in March. It was my first 5⭐ read of 2026. Can't wait to pick up all of @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's books!

Institutional betrayal harms in two distinct ways: material and psychological. If your government mistreats some people that causes material harm to those people. Because betrayal is so potent, institutional betrayal can ALSO cause psychological harm to both direct victims and other citizens.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Exciting news—We've finally found a way to do a paid indie media bundle so you don't have to separately subscribe to so many newsletters. Now you can get a 30-day trial of @katelynburns.com @kattenbarge.bsky.social and my publications in your inbox for one [heavily discounted] price! Sign up now:

Our Literary Thursdays series continues with @sorayachemaly.bsky.social, the award-winning author of “All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy.” Join us on March 26 at 6PM! www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/wom... #WomensHistoryMonth

Another important win to celebrate! Courage from plaintiffs, attorney, and judges is giving us a chance to save our democracy. We can support this courage by showing up for a No Kings protest event on March 28: www.nokings.org Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

What fetal personhood means: “If you had a law that said we’re going to pass an unequal amendment that makes it official that women do not have the same rights as other people, I think people would be pretty upset. This is the world we’re going to live in.” - Mary Ziegler

It's a good thing this is exactly what we do! Please read my piece on how Hollywood's most notorious boys club—cinematography—is changing little by little. slate.com/culture/2026...

Our virtual Literary Thursdays series brings you live conversations with amazing writers. Learn More about our March guests: Mary Kay McBrayer, Michael Arceneaux, Amelia Thomas, and @sorayachemaly.bsky.social! queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea... #WomensHistoryMonth

Best 📚 since last 📚 #BookSky #FridayReads #PubLibs

Another must read by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...

"So if you’ve spent the week doomscrolling it’s time for you to take a break to bask in the fact that good things are also happening. It matters." @jesscraven101.bsky.social has another long list of wins: chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/extra-extr...

Twin Cities Unions Planning 'Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years' as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis #ICEOUT #FDT #Rent #Eviction #MN #ICEOUTNOW www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...

Four journalists, including three working for the Associated Press, were detained in Cameroon while reporting from a facility where migrants deported by the Trump administration are held, according to two lawyers.

It’s possible to hold several ideas at once. Epstein was protected by a ruling class *and* that ruling class is male supremacist. “Elite complicity” degenders what’s happening and erases the central role of sexual violence in maintaining abusive power. open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

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"The Antidote: Institutional Courage" www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/12/i...

"DARVO: The Favorite Weapon of Institutional Self-Protection" www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/12/i...

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It's a perfect example of "institutional betrayal' @sorayachemaly.bsky.social as explains in her piece for us:

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

“…The trauma stems not only from interpersonal violence but also from the awareness that a collective body purporting to be just and protective is the opposite, instead more likely to punish the vulnerable than to help them.” #DARVO #InstitutionalBetrayal #Trauma #CollectiveTrauma #ICEGestapo

Great piece: “Images of sexual violence against children, racist policing, family separation, & mass killing aren’t simply “news” or “content” that informs us, but rather knowledge that is rewiring us. The triggers might differ, but the wounds inflicted by the content we are consuming are the same…”

Ireland: a proper country.

Thank you @signsjournal.org for the vital work you do and to @carmenriosss.bsky.social @profkori.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social for your thoughtful (and humbling!) considerations of All We Want is Everything!

Thank you for the opportunity to think and write about @sorayachemaly.bsky.social’s new book and the impact it will have.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Will be interesting to see the posture that people take around this today. For my part, I'm glad to see that the white supremacists continue to make it clear how anti-Black and racist they are. It goes to the very top. This is what their weaponization of "woke" was always about.

Hard-hitting essay on the cost of silence.

You know, if people believed girls and women or even just considered boasting about sexually assaulting them a no-go disqualification for leadership..

Ten years ago, I wrote this about the citizens who documented footage of police killings, but it certainly feels just as applicable to those documenting ICE/CBP violations too

So grateful to Priya Parker for recommending my book "Talk To Your Boys" on the Ezra Klein show today, along with great books by Ruth Whippman, Molly Farneth, and Danya Ruttenberg (@theradr.bsky.social) Listen/watch here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Wrote about how the values and ethics of border patrol violence work: rehearsed in everyday harassment, scaled by tech platforms, and enforced by the state. All require complicity and aggressors can only succeed when people refuse to look away as expected. open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...

@sorayachemaly.bsky.social's 'All We Want Is Everything' is a fascinating and infuriating exploration of the ways in which systems of male supremacy are hurting all of us, and how we can collectively chart courses to liberation.

Wrote this @thenation.com pice about the year since Trump's inauguration. Gender isn’t only a matter of identity, but an axis of governance. The administration's agenda has been systematically punishing women for their independence. (No typo this time!) www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Wrote this on the how the year since Trump's inauguration has affected women through compounded policies. Gender isn’t only a matter of identity, but an axis of governance. The administration's agenda has been systematically punishing women for their independence. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

excellent, excellent op-ed by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social, truly everyone should read it! & nice work publishing this, time.com, ty

Demonizing specifically white women who act in solidarity with racial minorities isn’t new. Here’s a southern political cartoon depicting Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1853. Surrounded by devils, she‘s holding a book titled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Subtitle: “I Love the Blacks.”

Renee Good wasn’t dead the moment she was shot, and they still denied her medical assistance. As I said in my video at the time, they could not have known whether there was an opportunity to save her bc they didn’t let anyone assess her. There has to be some consequence for denying her that chance!

Goodbye, academic freedom. The newly selected dean of the University of Arkansas law school had her offer rescinded after conservative state legislators learned that she had signed onto "friend of the court" briefs challenging bans on trans athletes in sports. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Sexual violence was a key tool of repression during Jim Crow. "White police officers forced other Black inmates, fueled with alcohol, to whip, beat, and rape Hamer as she was kept immobilized, screaming, and pleading for her life. She suffered kidney damage, and never walked properly again."