Soraya Chemaly: Live at Politics and Prose

Soraya Chemaly discusses her book, Rage Becomes Her, at Politics and Prose on 9/16/18.

In women’s ongoing struggle for equal rights, one right that’s gotten little attention is women’s right to be angry. In this eye-opening examination of the taboo of women’s rage, Chemaly, a writer, speaker, and director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, shows how cultural norms that prohibit women from expressing anger—or that demean it as “hysteria”--harm both women and society: women become depressed and the misogynistic society doesn’t change. Rather than repressing a powerful tool for social and personal transformation, Chemaly urges women to embrace and voice their anger. There’s too much at stake not to.

Chemaly is in conversation with Jill Filipovic, a journalist based in Nairobi and New York City, and author of The H-Spot

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