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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 26/07/2026

"Violence against women begins and ends with silencing; the two are not separate phenomena; a voice is what a human being has when that human being also has rights and membership in society..." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, whose voice is always clear despite our horrors.

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Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🙏all who came to supervisors’ course on misogyny in clinical practice&supervision. We explored how misogyny shapes therapeutic cultures eg authority, emotional expression, maternal expectations,thinking about the role of supervision&internalised misogyny #misogyny #therapy #psychoanalysis

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Dear Jayaram, The conference looks really interesting - I’d be very interested to speak. Shall we connect on email and you can give me a bit more of an idea of what you are looking for? Chamberlainmichaela3@gmail.com Warmly, Michaela

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Book Launch - Thursday 9th July at 7pm The Freud Museum London Limited in person places or online. I’ll be in conversation with the wonderful writer & psychoanalyst Juliet Rosenfeld #misogyny #psychoanalysis #freudmuseum

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Lovely to meet everyone who came along to my talk on misogyny last night @seedtalks & thanks for great questions 🙏 artwork by Sarah Maple

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who wants to join in the discussion about how and why we treat women the way we do - so pleased to be this week’s best seller (numbers 1&2)!!#misogyny #karnac

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

‘58% of black women in the UK said they felt completely uninformed about menopause, while many found it “psychologically damaging”. More than half (53%) reported anxiety, yet many women said they were misdiagnosed with anxiety or depression, not menopause’https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/

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Three in four women unaware menopause can trigger new mental illness, poll finds

Royal College of Psychiatrists says impact on mental health often overlooked and calls for improvements in care

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Really pleased to be in Karnac top 5 books! It’s released on 19th feb but can be preordered now

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Both articles in same week- treatment of women throughout life cycle - any suprise women in 50s dont expect to be understood…https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/28/seven-out-of-10-uk-mothers-feel-overloaded-research-reveals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Seven out of 10 UK mothers feel overloaded, research reveals

Study also says almost half have a mental health issue such as anxiety or depression

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

women said they did not want to burden people (4%), felt they needed to “hold it together” for others (45%), feared that other people would not understand (27%) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Survey of over-50s women finds almost two in three struggle with mental health

Of those affected by midlife challenges such as menopause, nine in 10 do not seek help, therapists’ organisation says

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

‘Better to be a sinner in a world ruled by God,’ as the psychoanalyst W.R.D. Fairbairn put it, ‘than to live in a world ruled by the Devil.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

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Mary Hannity | Return to Holloway

‘Safety is a trigger word for me,’ Aliyah says on the first day of the women’s circle in the documentary Holloway...

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This happened in 2024. A woman’s silence bought for five figures? Female staff at one of the world’s biggest publishers told not to be alone with one of their highest earning male authors?’ open.substack.com/pub/millihil...

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Everyone knew about Walliams

Even so, another rich and powerful man has been protected at women's expense

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Thank you Kemi Badenoch for a transparent example of internalised misogyny and how it puts women in a bear pit against each other, whilst the patriarchy sit back and laugh #internalisedmisogyny #misogyny #kemibadenoch #rachelreeves

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

So delighted to say that my new book ‘On Resisting Women’ is now live on Karnac with 20% discount for preorders bit.ly/47xN8dA #women #psychoanalysis #misogyny

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/10/2025

A psychology professor argues that young people, especially Gen Z-ers, are facing an “epidemic of perfectionism,” largely fuelled by social media.

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The Pain of Perfectionism

It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

‘But this year’s Girls’ Attitudes Survey shows too many are afraid - afraid to go out after dark, to use public transport, or to be themselves online. In fact, 68% of girls have changed their behaviour to avoid sexual harassment in the last year.’ www.girlguiding.org.uk/campaigns/se...

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Campaign against sexism and misogyny

Our campaign to tackle sexism and misogyny

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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Other than the science free nature of it all, perhaps the least surprising part of the admin’s new claim is the onus it puts on pregnant women. Dying of fever? Deal with it. In severe pain? Deal with it. Child has autism? It’s because you were weak, and if you say it wasn’t, you’re a liar. We know.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Join us for a closer look at how misogyny plays out in psychotherapy - really looking forward to presenting this course with Jan Hepburn.https://www.nscience.uk/product/the-invisible-edifice-how-gendered-structures-shape-clinical-work/

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The Invisible Edifice: How Gendered Structures Shape Clinical Work - nscience

“I don’t think of myself as a misogynist.” Neither do most people. Yet a teacher who hesitates to express anger in a predominantly male staff meeting, a girl who shrinks her ambitions to accommodate i...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025

“Tonight a woman is speaking to you.” During WWII, the Italian station Radio Bari became the voice of free Italy. Alba de Céspedes broadcast twice a week, addressing the women of Italy. Read three transcripts, translated into English for the first time.

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Alba de Céspedes’s Broadcasts Against Fascism

During the Second World War, the Italian writer took to the radio, urging resistance to the pressures of tyranny.

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My review of this wonderful book - Babies in Groups is in the current edition of BJP - great book, challenging the misogyny of attachment theory and psychoanalytic tropes about mothers & babies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Babies in groups: expanding imaginations By Ben S. Bradley, Jane Selby, Matthew Stapleton, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 208. £32.66 (paperback), £32.66 (hardback)

Click on the article title to read more.

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Around 44% of secondary school teacher participants described female pupils being the victims of misogynistic comments, discrimination, or inappropriate behaviour…30% of these teachers making reference to negative influences on self esteem and engagement.

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Teachers triage the schoolyard effects of online misogyny | BPS

A survey of UK-based teachers reveals prevalent misogynistic attitudes and behaviours in primary and secondary schoolboys, and details their impacts on female pupils and staff.

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Sienna Rodgers @siennarodgers.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

New: “It is not your right to see abusive, harmful, degrading, misogynistic porn, much like it's not your right to go and punch someone in the face in the street” My interview with Baroness Bertin on her newly published porn review: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

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Baroness Bertin's porn review: 'This isn't me driving a tank onto the lawn of censorship'

Will the government clamp down on legal but harmful online pornography? Sienna Rodgers talks to Conservative peer Baroness Bertin about her new rev...

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

‘judge said: “The prosecution suggest the sort of violent misogyny promoted by Tate is the same type of motivation that, on their case, fuelled both the murders and the rape. The defence submit this material has too vague a link and it [is] far too prejudicial.” Any training for judges on misogyny?

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Kyle Clifford watched Andrew Tate videos before triple murder

Jury was not told former soldier convicted of murder and now rape was interested in misogynist influencer

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/01/2025

‘Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less “universal”, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.’ @torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Toril Moi · I must divorce! On Vigdis Hjorth

Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less...

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Michael Sendrow @michaelsendrow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Pleased to share that the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies will be hosting Michaela Chamberlain (@michaelacham.bsky.social) this Saturday 01.25 for a virtual presentation, "Misogyny in Psychoanalysis" cmps.edu/Misogyny-in-...

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Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (Online Presentation) | Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Looking forward to meeting with the Centre for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies to talk about Misogyny in Psychoanalysis on Saturday 25th Jan - here’s the flyer if you’d like to join us www.cmps.edu/cimages/cmps...

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... -it’s also deeply traumatic for all involved and a huge betrayal of trust - there are alternatives but they require more staff, training and valuing dignity

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Controversial face-down restraint still being used for mental health patients in England

Dangerous practice was supposed to be phased out but new data reveals thousands of incidents every year

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

‘The point here is not that all men are rapists-in-waiting, nor that all women who put their trust in men are at risk. The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw’

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

How the defence tried to frame Gisèle Pelicot in court (from Sophie Smith's essay in @londonreview.bsky.social).

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

open.substack.com/pub/katemann... ‘there was always a large hole in the “cycle of abuse” theory: it doesn’t make sense of the fact that girls are more likely to be abused than boys, but are far, far less likely to become abusers as adults. The proclivity to abuse is a highly gendered phenomenon’

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What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

So many men were willing to rape a woman. And not one was willing to try to stop it.

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harrietmossop.bsky.social @harrietmossop.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Extending what feels like a very personal invitation to my few followers on Bluesky 😂 to these two events at the Freud Museum early next year about Anna Freud and Dorothy Birmingham’s long relationship. Hope to see some of you there! www.freud.org.uk/event/queer-...

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Michaela Chamberlain @michaelacham.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The family had been known to services since before Sara was born and whilst she was at school with multiple chances to intervene. Home schooling clearly isn’t the issue- just adds further stigma and lack of understanding about why people home school(often forced to homeschool due to lack of support)

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Sara Sharif’s father given custody despite years of reported abuse of mother and siblings

Trial of Urfan Sharif revealed children’s services, Surrey police and primary school were aware of concerns about the family for 16 years

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