Highlights of the Month
The long-awaited “2020” Summer Olympics this year has a spotlight on City the Council racism, and more This put January, New York will make specifically, misogynoir that is entrenched in and the Just days after ofkilled Homeland On February 24th, the Russian government Sunday, January 9,the a Department devastating fire 17 history by inaugurating 31 female city-councilors. sports industry. First, Sha’Carri was Last month, horrific images ofRichardson United States Security that they cleared the injured residents ofwar Twin Parks North West, an launched aannounced complete onnever Ukraine inmore order to Up until60 now, the council has had than border patrol brutalizing Haitian migrants banned from the Olympics after a positive cannabis camp of 15,000, Haitian apartment complex the Bronx. Twin Parkscoming North 18 women sit on council, but this immigrants next “demilitarize” thetheinmostly country, forcing millions to sparked widespread outrage. The atrocities test, even though it is not a performance-enhancing West, lovingly nicknamed Touray Tower after Abdolie seeking asylum in Del Rio, Texas, horrifying year, Ukraine. the council will have a female majority. flee This humanitarian crisis, however, made by let the U.S. government against Hatian drug (and alone the fact that is many white Touray moved in in the 1970s, home to aathletes strong images were released of U.S. Border Patrol Furthermore, this year’s election has made history is a multifaceted tragedy. In an effort to migrants, however, extend far beyond the have been excused of much worse accusations). This Gambian community that is now reeling fromwith the Agents chasing Haitian immigrants on multiple accounts due toNaomi the diverse group of “prioritize Ukrainian citizens,” Officials are events ofSimone late September. Most of the past week, Biles and Osaka stepped loss of not only parents, children, and siblings, but horses and whips. This instance is one in a candidates. Crystal Hudson will within become the first immigrants depicted in theevents photos surfaced denying students Ukraine down fromAfrican their Olympic tothat protect their community members and chosen family. The fire is long line of atrocities comitted by the U.S. Black openly queer city council member, Shekar late September were deported back to Haiti physical and mental health. And as a result, these passage on buses and trains out of the country. said to have been initiated by athe space that government dating toestablished firstheater influx of under Title 42. Titleback 42, Indian by the Krishnan will be the first American, Chi champion athletes have faced immense Countless acrossdays, social platforms was turned videos on for several butmedia the gravity of the Hatian asylum seekers in teh 1970s. After Trump administration, allows the U.S. Ossé be of the youngest city council member, discrimination and judgment. These three instances fire is will a result deeper infrastructure issues and the document these students attempting to board the brutal “clearing” of the detention center government toothers immediately deport immigrants (among many atBronx. this year’s Olympics) begs and many more ofthethe recent elects willactivist make systemic neglect of As community buses and trains only to be pushed out of the that attempt cross the border under the this September, thecouncil overwhelming majority the question of to whether the Olympics and itsMany fans history by making the more diverse. and religious leader Sheik Musa Drammeh stated at way and told: “Ukrainians only.” Although this pretense ofimmigrants pandemic concerns. To tosupport of Haitian were forced travel care about their Black athletes beyond the rankfor choice of what asuggest public that funeral the voting victims,is part “If they livedhas in Haitian and Black migrants, consider donating of to humanitarian crisis impacts all residents back to Haiti. entertainment and talent they provide. made running for office more not accessible to For all midtown Manhattan, they would have died.”
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Three months ago, the CDC announced that Steven Spielberg’s Westfree Side Story public has sparked vaccinated people were to enter indoor Crystal Hudson, Central Brooklyn’s newest city worldwide excitement. Saudi Arabia, the United places maskless without of ofcontracting or A recent lawsuither in Taiwan has the potential After surviving own fear bout postpartum This month, Canadian-backed oil company, council member, declared her mission to support Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait, spreading COVID-19. This month, however, due to to make historic change in to Taiwan. depression, Jade Kearny set out protectThis and Endbridge, was pressured to shut down Line 5 in renters in need inbanned aof recent interview with City several outbreaks the the Deltamovie variant of the virus however, have due toWatch. strict month, a Taiwanese court approeved Xiao support other Black women suffering from the Michigan for several hours after water She is most particularly focused onwhich supporting seniors (the revealing ofher occurred in censorship rules around sexuality. The E’s request to change gender onprimary her ID same mental health struggles. This vision took protectors called Enbridge and halted the with rental assistance after the expiration of eviction Provincetown, Massachusetts, where ofWest the issue that these countries have foundmost with without ofMatters, gender-affirming surgery. the shapeprove of She an app designed to operation the pipeline from within the protections onvaccinated) January 15th. In the interview, population is the CDC announced that Side Story is the Xiao minorEcharacter Anybodys. In the Back in 2019, was denied this right, facility. The construction of Line 5 provide community andand resources for Black Hudson also criticized the complex and vaccinated individuals inoperation fact,paperwork contract original film, Anybodys isenvironmental portrayed as athreat tomboy andposed in response, shecan, took her case straight has an immense to lack of communication froma government mothers in their postpartum period. itTheisofficials app is spread the disease. As result, now that seeksNow, acceptance fromDespite the have Jets, but inthat the to court. many activists hope that the Michigan community. the fact when those in that need Black apply for rental recommended everyone, regardless of designed to connect women to assistance qualified 2021 adaptation, Anybodys isprecedent portrayed as Xiao E’s case will set a and the state government and members of work the stating that “We need to create systems that vaccination status use masks indoors. The Delta therapists, all of whom have trained in a explicitly trans. Despite the censorship inthea abolish the thatthem.” states trans individuals Michigan community have actively resisted for people, notlaw against Hudson has made variant is near twice ashow transmissible asalso theBlack first 12-week course on to support use andhave of adaptation the pipeline, Enbridge must gender-affirming surgery to handful ofconstruction countries, this ofofAnybodys significant strides in the first few months her term strains of COVID-19, yet less than half of the U.S. women. Kearny and her co-founder Marguerite has exploited legalon in work order to change their gender theiron IDs. is monumental thanks toloopholes the in-depth and by halting developments Atlantic Avenue population istwo vaccinated. continue with construction. Pierce hope to use She Matters to change the research donedidn’t by screenwritier Tony from Kushner, because they have proper input the statistic that Black women are 57% less likely to Steven Spielberg, and iris menas, the community.
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Next month, the Supreme Court will take up two lawsuits against Senate Bill 8, a Texas In response to financial difficulties brought on by the abortion law that can ban abortions at as early COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC established a This6 weeks month, as intoCalifornia pregnancy, Governor well beforeGavin many moratorium that protected Americans from After a 20 -year career in the high court of Lahore, This month Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist, and individuals find out that they are pregnant. If Newsom established a three-year evictions. This month, even though the pandemic Pakistan, Justice Ayesha Malik made history by educator, will receive the coveted Edward passed, Senate15, Billtransformational 8,will would eliminate 85%-90% pilot-program that record data about the On December author, poet, and its subsequent obstacles are far from becoming Pakistan’s financial first female judge appointed to MacDowell Medal. Sanchez will join world of abortions in Texas. The two lawsuits made gender and sexuality of victims of violent and professor, bell hooks died at age 69. hooks over, the Supreme moratorium leaving many Pakistan’s Court.was Maliklifted, has spent her career against the billthe were made by the federal renowned awardees including Toni Morrison, deaths. While pilot-program is limited to published 30 books in her lifetime, and was best Americans the in the lurch for affordable housing. defending rights ofawomen in Pakistan. Last With year, government and collection of abortion Stephen Jamesn Ta-Nehisi six counties, areBaldwin, still that known forSondheim, heradvocates works About Love: New Visions, the moratorium lifted, many the she prevented legalization an hopeful unnecessarily providers and the advocates. AsAmericans ofofnow, it across is unclear Coates, and many others. Sanchez became an this landmark bill will be the first step in country owe test” months ofsome past-due rent with little invasive “virginity that lawmakers wanted Ain’t anow Woman?, and Feminist Theory: From what I the Supreme Court’s decision will be. addressing the increased violence faced by established writer in thededicated Black Arts no support. This already very present issue has to use ontoknown women who had reported cases of rape or Margin Center. hooks herMovement time as a What is now, however, is that the court the LGBTQ+ community. So far, Santa been by the pandemic not of 1960s 1970s isabortion bestand known for sexual assault. areand that Malik’s professor and aMany writer tohopeful making herwill work willtheexacerbated not beand discussing rights Clara, Los Angeles, Stanislaus and Fresno dissolve unless established, permanent change is position on the supreme court will pave the way for her work above Homegirls and Handgrenades themselves, butallrather, how SB 8 will be “healing” else, making her loss all and the made by thehave federal government. more female judges the court counties agreed to participate the enforced. Shake Loose My Skin. more impactful toand allinfluence those thatsupreme she in healed to make more women-centered decisions. program. through her writing.
