Soraya Lisa Catherine Chemaly (born 1966 in Florida) is a Bahamian-American author, activist and feminist.
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.
[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.
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".