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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达

@letahongfincher.bsky.social
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Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. letahongfincher.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026
Stop trying to make me Catholic again.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...
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A Survivor’s Education
A Kirkus Best Book of 2024  An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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Jae-Ha Kim 김재하 @jaehakim.com · 22/09/2026
AMERICAN HAGWON author @minjinlee.bsky.social said growing up in NY "allowed me to really see my experience as being central. I think that I never felt like this statistical anomaly, because New York is made up of statistical anomalies, minorities and immigrants." travel.yahoo.com/advice/lifes...
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Go away with ... Min Jin Lee
For critically-acclaimed author Min Jin Lee, the in-depth research she did for her latest novel “American Hagwon” – out Sept. 29 – included extensive visits across three continents to ensure that her ...
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 21/09/2026
Journalist and #MeToo Activist Sophia Huang Xueqin Released From Prison After Five Years
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Journalist and #MeToo Activist Sophia Huang Xueqin Released From Prison After Five Years
Sophia Huang Xueqin, a journalist whose reporting on human rights and sexual abuse helped to galvanize China’s #MeToo movement, was scheduled to be released
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨CPJ and partner organizations call on the Chinese authorities to ensure journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin is freed without any arbitrary restrictions, as she approaches the end of a five-year prison sentence. cpj.org/?p=619869
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CPJ, partners urge China to ensure #MeToo journalist Sophia Huang’s freedom as jail term nears end - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, September 15, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations call on the Chinese authorities to ensure journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin is freed without any arbitrary restrictions, as she approaches the end of a five-year prison sentence. Huang, whose reporting on human rights and sexual abuse helped spark China’s #MeToo movement, is due...
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thinking more about Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, here’s the first interview Robin did with me on her podcast about my other book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. At one point I tell her that I’m a huge fan of hers and rather awestruck. wmclive.libsyn.com/wmc-live-277...
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Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan: WMC Live #277: Leta Hong Fincher. (Original Airdate 2/24/2019)
Robin on national emergencies, Cardinal McCarrick, "embryo adoption," and why the North Pole is moving, plus Part 3 of "Women’s Suffrage(s)." Guest: Leta Hong Fincher on her book Betraying Big Brother...
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
RIP, another great feminist icon, Robin Morgan. I was honored to be a guest on her podcast, speaking about the 10th anniversary edition of my book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China womensmediacenter.com/wmclive/wmc-...
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WMC Live #422: Ancient Societies, Modern Crises. (Original Airdate 11/12/2023) - Women’s Media Center
Robin explores China's new plans for women with her special guest, Leta Hong Fincher, author of Leftover Women. And Robin's commentary on the Israel-Gaza war.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wrote a thing about Gloria Steinem and how profoundly feminism changed and continues to change the world.
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Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone
To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIP, the magnificent Gloria Steinem. Thank you for showing me the way ❤️🙏 💐 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Landslide.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In independence, Missouri, hometown of Harry Truman, tonight city councilman John Perkins got absolutely rocked, losing a recall election with 68% voting to end his term immediately over his vote to approve a big data center. www.kmbc.com/article/inde...
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Independence Councilman John Perkins recalled after voting to approve multibillion-dollar data center
Independence voters recalled District 1 Councilman John Perkins following his vote to approve a multibillion-dollar data center project.
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations, Rebecca!
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I don't think I've ever read such an ecstatic book review by a major critic. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can't get numb to this: it's frightening how Trump et al have normalized lawless behavior by govt officials. US govt cruelty to immigrants is not remotely new, but people like Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, moved the Overton window on accepting scandalous outrages. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My hair stylist said her cousin was just ambushed and arrested by ICE agents without a warrant during her last immigration interview for US citizenship after living here for 24 years. #AbolishICE
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Since Jared has been acting as un diplomate sans portefeuille, I've been shocked no U.S. news org has gone on an editorial campaign against it. Most stories about Jared and the Logan Act date from 2017. Was there some court decision that I missed about it In the interim? Why was this just dropped?
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Going through my mom’s old boxes, I discovered this poster for the play I adapted and directed my senior year at Harvard, 1990: ‘Jesus, Confucius and John Lennon’, a political comedy by Chinese playwright Sha Yexin 沙叶新.
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Going through my mom’s old boxes, I discovered this poster for the play I adapted and directed my senior year at Harvard, 1990: ‘Jesus, Confucius and John Lennon’, a political comedy by Chinese playwright Sha Yexin 沙叶新.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:
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Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern
Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. An...
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I was enthralled by last night’s #ClassicalTheatreofHarlem production of Othello, FREE at Marcus Garvey Park.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Feminism vs Fascism: Ten Tactics to Topple Tyrants. I am thrilled to announce that my new book is available for pre-order!Publication: Feb. 23, 2027. Overjoyed to be working with fabulous editor Rakia Clark. Thank you Victor Mingovits for the wonderful cover! www.harpercollins.com/products/fem...
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Feminism vs. Fascism
In the spirit of On Tyranny, a ten-point plan for how feminist principles can be harnessed to combat totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and fascism. Far-rig...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Even while denying the significance of Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump family has cultivated friendships with the Tate brothers, and the Trump Administration has intervened on their behalf with Romanian authorities. A lot of the US far right is in bed with them, so to speak:
Tate made a deal with the right-wing streaming service Rumble, which had recently received major investments from Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire, and J. D. Vance, Trump’s future Vice-President. The details have not previously been confirmed, but a confidential contract shows an agreement to pay Tate at least six million dollars a year for a weekly quota of five short videos and a thirty-minute live stream. His presence inspired a forty-five-per-cent increase in active users, sending Rumble to first place on the Apple and Google charts. A few months later, Elon Musk bought Twitter and reinstated Tate’s account.

When Tate was arrested on human-trafficking charges, his allies defended him. Donald Trump, Jr., called the case “absolute insanity,” and Musk suggested that the authorities were targeting the Tates while ignoring “actual sex trafficking.” Carlson, who had just released a documentary called “The End of Men,” devoted hours of airtime to proclaiming Tate’s innocence; so did the right-wing podcaster Candace Owens. The activist Charlie Kirk praised him onstage. “What he says is so powerful,” Kirk said. “Our society is configured towards collapsing the American man.”
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
More nauseating details about Harvard ties to Epstein: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
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Should Epstein’s Friends Be Punished? An Elite Harvard Club Is Torn. (Gift Article)
At Harvard, students, alumni and professors debate whether a storied campus group should cut ties with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest associates, and whether Harvard itself should do the same.
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
this deeply moving piece by @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, “I See My Father in the Fathers Killed by ICE” 💔 I’m so glad she wrote this & furious she felt she had to time.com/article/2026...
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I See My Father in the Fathers Killed by ICE
The killings of Joan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo remind me of my own father, writes Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026
everything is gender youtu.be/Hg-7zy8EnXg?...
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Pete Hegseth wants to test America's soldiers for testosterone.
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
this U.N. special rapporteur is using their position to attack trans rights. It’s an abuse of the position, an anti-rights agenda, and it’s condemnable. boo.
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How One Woman Is Using the UN to Attack Trans Rights Worldwide
It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/07/2026
Rachel Maddow’s description of Juan Sebastian Guerrero killed by ICE in Maine is a must see. She explains what happened w/out being graphic, and somehow that makes it even more powerful. Remember Alex, Pretti, and Renée? There have been no prosecutions. Still no justice. We know how this goes.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/07/2026
I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.
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A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Prebunking” has been found to be very effective in neutralizing disinformation
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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Women should reinvent their crone years as their most powerful, authentic and healthy years.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026
We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Me Too did not go far enough.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"she asked for it"
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Second wave radicals like Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis knew they had to break off from the anti-war movement and start independent feminist groups when women tried to speak at an anti-Nixon protest, and men in the crowd yelled “Take her off the stage and fuck her.”
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