Amanda Chemeche
@achemeche.bsky.social
Writer, Opera Nerd and Drag King (They/Them)
Bylines: Jezebel, Lithub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Review, them., BOMB, The Forward
Living btw NYC and Edinburgh
Trinity Dublin, Yale & Columbia Alum
AmandaChemeche.com
Bylines: Jezebel, Lithub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Review, them., BOMB, The Forward
Living btw NYC and Edinburgh
Trinity Dublin, Yale & Columbia Alum
AmandaChemeche.com
Check out @dianamheald.bsky.social’s nuanced and thoughtful review of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book, “Girl on Girl.”
Reviewed @sophiegilbert.bsky.social Girl on Girl for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/were...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/were...
May 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Check out @dianamheald.bsky.social’s nuanced and thoughtful review of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book, “Girl on Girl.”
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
Does it raise questions or does it answer them
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Does it raise questions or does it answer them
By @mashagessen.bsky.social
“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
By @mashagessen.bsky.social
“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
The surprise Oscar nominee has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.
The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
slate.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The surprise Oscar nominee has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
The @washingtonpost.com went from having an Opinions section to an Opinion (singular) section
February 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The @washingtonpost.com went from having an Opinions section to an Opinion (singular) section
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
I love being trans and having to spend my days waiting for a webinar to see if i, as a subhuman transgender, can get a passport, even after waiting (at this point) like 5 months to hear back about changing a stupid fucking letter on my stupid fucking birth certificate
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I love being trans and having to spend my days waiting for a webinar to see if i, as a subhuman transgender, can get a passport, even after waiting (at this point) like 5 months to hear back about changing a stupid fucking letter on my stupid fucking birth certificate
For @bombmag.bsky.social I spoke to Sophie Madeline Dess about her debut novel “What You Make of Me,” which came out today! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
BOMB Magazine | Sophie Madeline Dess by Amanda Chemeche
A debut novel explores art, desire, and creative control.
bombmagazine.org
February 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For @bombmag.bsky.social I spoke to Sophie Madeline Dess about her debut novel “What You Make of Me,” which came out today! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
“Leaders in higher educational institutions should stand up for their values. Not to pick a fight with Donald Trump or JD Vance,” Michael Roth says. “We should stand up for our values because we’ve said we believed in them for the last many decades now.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump
Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Leaders in higher educational institutions should stand up for their values. Not to pick a fight with Donald Trump or JD Vance,” Michael Roth says. “We should stand up for our values because we’ve said we believed in them for the last many decades now.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Words by @hughryan.bsky.social on the National Park Service’s erasure of the words “transgender” and “queer” from the Stonewall Monument’s website. slate.com/news-and-pol...
February 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Words by @hughryan.bsky.social on the National Park Service’s erasure of the words “transgender” and “queer” from the Stonewall Monument’s website. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
(gift link)
(gift link)
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
(gift link)
(gift link)
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) shutdown protest:
"For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."
"For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."
February 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) shutdown protest:
"For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."
"For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
Chris Murphy: "We have days to stop the destruction of our democracy ... we are taking back this country from Elon Musk."
February 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Chris Murphy: "We have days to stop the destruction of our democracy ... we are taking back this country from Elon Musk."
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
I am thinking back to whipping Obamacare votes in the senate online. How tired I am of begging senators for my life and that of everyone in this country.
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I am thinking back to whipping Obamacare votes in the senate online. How tired I am of begging senators for my life and that of everyone in this country.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
They are violating the constitution and if we don’t urge our representative to block this, many, many more unconstitutional acts will follow.
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
February 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
They are violating the constitution and if we don’t urge our representative to block this, many, many more unconstitutional acts will follow.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
One thing we've learned since 1/20 with painful clarity is that our institutions are far more fragile than we could have ever imagined.
February 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
One thing we've learned since 1/20 with painful clarity is that our institutions are far more fragile than we could have ever imagined.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
thank you, senator @schatz.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
thank you, senator @schatz.bsky.social
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.
As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
January 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
Reposted by Amanda Chemeche
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.