Reclaiming Power: All We Want is Everything with Soraya Chemaly

​Join us for a virtual event with author Soraya Chemaly as part of our Global 16 Days campaign.

Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning author and activist. As a cultural critic, she writes and speaks frequently about gender norms, social justice, free speech, sexualized violence, politics, and technology. The former Executive Director of The Representation Project and Director and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, she has long been committed to expanding women’s civic and political participation.

Soraya is also the author of The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth after Trauma, a thought-provoking exploration that challenges our most dearly held, common myths of resilience and urges us to shift our perspective from prioritizing individualized traits and skills to uplifting collective care and open-ended connections with our communities.

Her latest book, All We Want is Everything, is a bold and urgent call to name and dismantle the systems that diminish our lives and to reimagine a world built on justice, care, and collective power. From private relationships to global politics, Chemaly shows how naming and refusing male supremacy is essential to resisting the forces tearing democracy apart.

Drawing on popular culture, social science, incisive feminist analysis, and cultural critique, Chemaly offers a sweeping vision of what happens when women’s needs, voices, and rights are truly centered—not as an afterthought, but as the foundation for health, political stability, and thriving communities. With her trademark clarity and unapologetic truth-telling, she exposes the political, economic, and cultural forces that keep “everything” out of reach for so many.

​In this virtual event, Soraya will expand on the themes in the book and have a discussion with participants.

​The Global 16 Days Campaign was started in 1991 by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. The 16-day period starts on November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and ends on December 10, International Human Rights Day. As a part of its strategy to end gender-based violence, Equality Bahamas participates in this campaign with a series of events.

See the remaining events in our Global 16 Days Campaign lineup at Lu.ma/16days25