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The Bella Bulletin MAY 2019

Happy birthday to… Civil Rights Activist, Septima Clark

Op-Ed on, “The Stonewall Riots” Content Creator, Sofia Baluyut discusses key figures in the Stonewall Riots and how they sparked the beginning of Pride celebrations within the month of June.

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This Month in Women’s History ……....……….3 ACTIVISM THROUGH ART………………….…….……4 Featured Headlines of the Month …….....….….6 FEMINIST FIVE………………………………..…..……8 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO..……………………….…......…10 BALI Spring Fundraiser..………………………....11 Looking for Enrichment Opportunities...…..12 The Bella Bulletin Staff…..…………..…..…......14 BALI STAFF & Board of Directors……….……....15

Womenâ€™s History of the month:

May

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Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945, and eventually went to Now, Lorde is perhaps best known for her school at born Syracuse University andMexico. Parsons Frida was in 1907work. in Coyoacán, At writing and published This included works School being hired, and by 18, she was seriously bus accident, such as of herDesign poetry before inhurt TheaBlack Unicorn her would continue to be affected by entitled those injuries Conde Nast. Within these “biomythography” about her institutions life Zand ami: for the rest of her life. Her recovery, however, A New Spelling of My Name , published journals her eventual establishment in the art world,is what her to painting. Later,illness at 22, called she began from led her time dealing with The Kruger says that her childhood experiences her relationship Riveraof and Cancer Journals, with and Diego a collection hertraveled essays and familyhis circumstance continued to to artisticAlthough career. Their in support Sister Outsider. somerelationship of these influence her perspective. growing up was including prose, a Not yearlong worksfraught, are technically Lorde’s divorce poetic followed by she their remarriage, and she many upper says , means that is leaningsclass, come through in the richness and extramarital affairs for both (Frida engaged “from classandthan most of myin honestya ofdifferent her language emotion. affairs both men and In thewith early morning of women). June 28th, 1969, the colleagues [....] I'm sensitized to issues of New York Police Department raided the Lorde was integral to discussions of feminism race andoften difference.” Her art reflected the painful Stonewall Inn, bar1960s-1980s, known to relationships serve queer and womanism inathe particularly she had with her own body and with Diego. In particular, theBlack Mafia-run bar inpatrons. the waysIn she celebrated and queer her painting The Broken Column, she depicts womanhood, and brought the flaws in the was special because it provided a place for physical pain; in Henry Ford Hospital, she paints white feminist movement to light. In her essay folks who might have been left out of other about her experience of miscarriage. Following “Aqueer ge, Race, Class, Sex: York Women Redefining spaces in New City.Self Stonewall her divorce with Diego, she painted Portrait Difference , ” published in the collection Strans ister provided a place where drag queens, with Cropped Hair, where she represents an Outsider Lorde young, critiques lower-class, the ways thatand/or white folks, , and androgynous version of herself in reaction to women ignore the multifaceted experience of homeless queer people could go. This her difficult relationship. all women and thus become racist and incident at Stonewall was preceded by the exclusionary their approach to feminism: “By Perhaps mostinclosings importantly, however, her work raids and of other queer bars and large within the women’s movement today, was also Kruger deeplythe political. was mixed-race, Though supported as raid an throughout city, Frida but herself this police white womensure focustoupon their oppression as and made particularly represent ended upeducator sparking a riot/uprising amongst artist and for some time after her women and ignore differences of race, sexual indigenous in her art.bystanders This interestwho in patrons ofculture the bar and job at Conde Nast, her art really took off preference, class, and age. There is a pretense and centering of indigenous culture made her a were tired of theofpolice interference. Forthe six to a homogeneity experience covered part of the Mexicanidad movement. Sheby often days,sisterhood thousands of people word that does not in factrioted exist.” Inin

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Both on struggled at the margins Women’s March Washington, and it even of the “Gay” Liberation movements, reflects her pro-choice sentiments while however, because tothey fit calling cis women actiondidovernottheir respectability politics in many ways. They reproductive rights. Of course, there is so much more to learn and were not middle class, not white, and did honor about Frida Kahlo. It is important that she a binaryand gender identity, so isnot notinhabit whitewashed that the legacyand of her Though her work was published as many as fifty were pushed asideasbymuch cisgender beliefs live on just as her, white, image. years ago, Lorde’s words and experience middle-class gay and lesbian members ofa Though she would later be claimed asstill ring true to this day and offer much to learn their community. figurehead for different feminist movements, from. 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To “Pride” continuehas thinking for are not yetoffully been takeaway, one of Lorde’s important messages is about Frida and her legacy, there is an commodified and used to pretend that all to recognize the complexity and totality of exhibition of her artwork at consider the Brooklyn LGBTQ+ rights are won,experience. but that differences within others’ (In other Museum running from February 8–May 12, there isshestill a long waywhat to go in terms of words, recognizing would later be 2019, and Tiseen Vogue and The Independent ensuring that queer folks are physically, termed “intersectionality” scholar Kimberlé offer articles that can serveby as starting points to emotionally, and culturally safe and Crenshaw.) After all, as Lorde recognized in her discuss the contrast between Frida’s image supported in“Lall spaces. Consider police 1982 speech earning From the ‘60sthat ,” “There is being commodified and the actual politics she stillsuch profile folks with marginalized no as a kill single-issue struggle because stood for.thingand identities, especially Black people. Consider, we do not live single-issue lives.” too, that trans women of color--the same people we must thank for leading the

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And vitally, talk about and support the Black trans women who continue to be affected by racism, sexism, and transphobia and are murdered at disturbingly high rates. I want to take time and space to honor Dana Martin, Kruger AshantiwasCarmon, Barbara born in Claire Newark,Legato, New Muhlaysia Booker, and Michelle “Tamika” Jersey in 1945, and eventually went to Now, Lorde isallperhaps best forwho her Washington, Black transknown women school at Syracuse University and Parsons Frida in 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico. At writing andborn published This works have was been killed in work. 2019. Butincluded beyond just School of Design before being hired, and by 18, she was seriously hurt a bus accident, such as her poetry in T he Black Unicorn her speaking about them and honoring them, I would continue to be affected by entitled those injuries Conde Nast. Within these institutions “biomythography” about life Zand ami: would like to share twoher posts by educator for the rest of her life. 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Headlines of the Month Representative Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey Introduce Green New Deal

On March 15th during Friday prayers, two Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tuesday, April 2nd, LoriUnited Lightfoot made history On Friday, May 25, Kingdom Prime mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand faced Senator Edward J Markey have recently by Minister becoming the firstMay female, gay,Tarrant and mass shootings . Shooter Brenton first Theresa resigned afterBlack yet introduced a congressional resolution, Called Mayor of Chicago. Lightfoot was a first-time targeted Masjid Al Noor, killing 42 worshippers, another attempt at compromising on a the Green aimed at limiting candidate in New a race of long-time established and then moved on toDeal Linwood Masjid, killing 7. Withdrawal Agreement for “Brexit”, the greenhouse gas emissions and making other Chicago politicians including former Cook Tarrant supposedly used several firearms that significant changes inUnited the United States in order County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, separation of the from the were legally purchased (butKingdom are suspected to to combat climate change. The resolution former U.S. Commerce Secretary Bill Daley, European (EU), and was rejected by have been Union enhanced), there were proposes a “10-year mobilization” a “Green state Comptroller Susana Mendoza,orand former explosives attached to Withdrawal multiple vehicles at the Parliament. May’s New mobilization” thatAgreement involves City HallDeal operator and school board President sites of the attacks. . Authorities reported hasChico. been rejected by completely transitioning to have thetimes use of Gery However, an FBI three investigation of the that there is clear Tarrant would have renewable andover zero-emission energy sources, longest-serving alderman in Chicago’s history, Parliament the past few years. The continued to attack mosques had heincumbent not been upgrading all buildings in the United States to Edward Burke, exposed the 50-year most Tarrant recent rejection being on the March 29th, caught. also live streamed attack on power-efficient buildings,The eliminating pollutiona of attempted extortion. scandal became the day that the UK was supposed to leave Facebook and left a 74-page anti-immigrant andbreak greenhouse gasdueemission big for Lightfoot to the factfrom that allthe of manifesto. who’s Australian, the EU.long-term As aTarrant, result, the separation date was manufacturing industry, the were transportation the other candidates connected supposedly came toagricultural Christchurch for the final sole industry, industry, and to Burke. and In thethe end, the race came down to pushed back until October 31st. 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According to Senate is chosen . largestMitch United States’ city to elect an openly gay Majority Leader McConnell, the mayor. resolution will be brought to the floor for a vote within the next few weeks.

Kenya Postpones Court Decriminalizing Gay Sex

Decision

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Thisyear, Friday, 22nd, Kenya’s high court was This 8 February states have introduced varying and his administration have released plansOps to United Constitutional Patriots Border scheduled to rule on d ecriminalizing gay sex take women’s LGBTQ historynew out of school. restrictions on and abortion . These laws detained 300 asylum-seeking However, the judges have claimedmigrants that more near time textbooks . These plans have been one past of many have gained lots of attention this Sunland Park, New Mexico in mid-April. This is needed to review the evidence, and as a result, moves ofmade by are President Bolsonarofrom to group individuals all independent the vote been pof ostponed until May. new This vote month ashas a result the most recent drastically change theBorder education system of the US Customs Patrolfor (CBP) and was from going to be and major landmark LGBTQ+ laws Alabama and Missouri. Alabama Brazil. 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Activists arrest.” This particular chapter of the United and LGBTQ rights movements from national most recent law on abortion was passed innear claim that the vote not only has a wide influence Constitutional Patriots these has been stationed exams. For Bolsonaro, drastic changes to on Kenya, but other African countries asare well. Gay the border for two months, but there many Missouri : a ban on abortions after 6 weeks, the education are reasonable responses sex is kind illegalwho insystem most African countries, but the of its have been doing this work for the time around when most doctors can to the low ranking of Brazilian educational issue has recently been brought to attention in years. According to this particular group, their systems by theAngola, OECDdespite . 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Headlines of the Month Equal Rights Amendment Failed to Pass in Virginia

This Virginian state government had Early month, this the month, three historically Black Last month, the Bella Bulletin covered the the opportunity to become the needed 38th brutal beating of were transgender woman churches in Louisiana burned down over state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment Organizers and participants of Texas. M alaysia’s Muhlaysia Booker in . Dallas, The the course of ten days The culprit, Holden (ERA); a piece of legislation, o riginating in 1923 , International Women’s the Day video march have press been picture above is from of her Matthews, 21, has been c harged with arson and that states “Equality of rights under the law conference the incident and during which targeted be by after the agovernment extremist with committing hate crime , aby charge that shall not denied or abridged the United she stated groups. “This time I can which stand was before conservative The march, States or by any state on account of sex.” The authorities were hesitant to confirm. The held first you; whereas in other scenarios, we are at a ERA was 9th, passed by Congress in Port 1972, and but on March was attended by hundreds Church, St. Mary Baptist on Church Barre, memorial.” However, May in18, B ooker required the approval 38demands: states by 1982 to focused on down five central to end was on of March 26, followed by was burned found dead gunshot wound. become official. By with 1982 aonly 35 states had violence based on gender and there sexual Greater Union Baptist Church Mount According the Dallas police is given their to approval. Despite theforce, fact that the orientation, connection end child ensure a no known her Pleasant Baptist Church inbetween Opelousas. M atthews deadline is expired, many marriages, advocates for murder the ERA and initiated her assault woman's freedom by to to make choices over who was arrested about Edward weeks after the have efforts two extend orThomas, eradicate her was arrested for his crime, and the others deadline so that upon the a approval of a 38th own body Evidence and life, ensure dignified minimum incident. found against Matthews seen in the video. In her press conference state, ERA could still have the of potential to included videos and photos on his phone of the wage, the and ensure the destruction patriarchy. after her assault, law. Booker “This have has become a national Illinoisstated and Nevada church allies burnings, records to the Since and phone week members of traced the LGBTQ been approved a rough for myself, the both the amendment since the 1982 locations of the fires, and anti‑Baptist messages community demonstrated their support for the transgender community, and the city one of deadline, leaving the country with only posted onto his Facebook page. of Matthews is march, anti‑LGBTQ amendment. groups criticized and Dallas.” Her acknowledgement the wider state left to ratify the During the currently being community held 46‑day in prison, out of many concern state government’s General Assembly transgender speaks to the attacked the march online, stripping of session, Virginia given violence the opportunity to nationwide against that he privacy might issue commit another crime until his their was and of threatening them. be that final state . Efforts to get the amendment transgender women, particularly case goes to five court in after September. The itthree Furthermore, days the march, was passed in Virginia have failedIn before,just buta transgender women of color. churches that he targeted had anfact, immense announced that the seven organizers were to this be advocates were more hopeful of its success day after Muhlaysia’s death, Michelle community value and were all over 100 years year this with the the black party probed by year the police for aDemocrats, violation of “Tamika” Washington , potential another old. had Many worshippers the linked arms and prayed that demonstrated most support for the transgender woman Act was shot death Act. in the Peaceful Assembly and the to Sedition as the churches having went else down inpresents flames. amendment, almost the majority House Philadelphia. Something that The organizer’s responded to the of Delegates. The ERA passed in the Senate, but Matthews’ actin of targeting predominantly Black a concern Texas specifically is comply that announcement that they were willing to was voted the subcommittee. churches identity” is against part of inis a larger American history ofa “gender not House legally considered with probe, are but critical felt as of though it was being Many the activists the fact that the hate crime. Therefore, and. terrorism against BlackEdward spaces Thomas, of worship amendment not them seen due by ato full committee unfairly responsible used was against their cause. In those for Muhlaysia’s death However, many activists have called attention to and suggest that if the amendment had been fact, the as organizers explicitly followed the rules cannot, of now, charged additionally this incident havebe raised money to support allowed this and provision, it might have been for out targeting someone because of their set by the Peaceful Assembly Act by efforts to rebuild these historic churches. passed. Although Virginia did not become the gender identity. And calling attention to notifying officials days before the march. In the ten ERA, North Carolina will be state to save these acts as hate crimes is a more than undergoing a similar process which addition, the Sedition Act is ina March vague in piece of necessary step to preventing further hate the ERA will be once again considered that has historically been used for to legislation crimes against transgender women of color. ratification.

prohibit any criticism of the government.

A Record Number of 6 Women are Running for President

Last month, the University of Southern The 2020 Rocket presidential electionLab has more California Propulsion became Friday, March 22nd, Selene Saavedra Roman, Ina women running in 12, it than ever the second amateur group and before. first On Friday, April transgender the woman flight attendant and have Deferred for previous years, there been n oAction more than student group reach the byK ármán Muhlaysia Bookerever was bto rutally beaten a large two women running in the primaries at the Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient from Peru, group ofthe people after a minor traffic election, accident line, time. between Earth’s same Inboundary the 2020 presidential was r eleased from an immigration detention outside of the Royal Crest apartment complex in atmosphere space. The rocket, called however, six and women have already declared center after 6 weeks of detained was their candidacy. completely The candidates . She include Dallas, Texas. A video being of the incident depicts Traveler IV, was designed and scheduled to fly to Mexico by her airline, Mesa Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Booker by aThe large groupreached of people,a created surrounded by students. rocket California Senator Harris, airlines, early last Kamala February, but to and the some shouting following a man in a due Minnesota white jaw-dropping height of 340,000 feet shirt Senator Amy Klobuchar, New York Senator unstable tonature of and the DACA program This had starting flight punch kick her minutes. to the she ground. had a that lasted 11 Kirsten Gillibrand, Hawaiian Congresswoman to ask the company if in she would be let back into Several others joined author assault after rocket also fourth attempt Tulsi was Gabbard, notably and the the shortly Marianne the United States. 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Happy Women’s Month! Enjoy this month’s picks of inspirational MayaKaur Rupi Angelou is anwas Indian-Canadian born on April 4th, poet,1924 illustrator in St. Louis, and Missouri. performer.This She women to honor and Michelle cherish during Month. This month is her Obama’s Women’s latest book, Becoming month was made(her famous birthday for month) her bestselling we’ll honor poetry her andlifeprose and collection, work.(2018), Milk we’ve got short stories! autobiographical memoir. The book sold approximately 725,000 and Honey. This spent copies over ina year on The New York Times Bestseller list. the United States on the first day, making it the second -Mayannah Beauvoir, Content creator for the Bella Bulletin best-She selling books sold inIndia, 2018. book reached comesdebut from a of Sikhall family in Punjab, andThe immigrated to Canada with her parents was four old. Shetwo started 1.4 million copies in the when first she week, andyears in about weeks, Maya Angelou was an African American poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist. She has authored plays, movies and television shows in addition to poetry books and several autobiographies. Her first autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” details her upbringing in the south up to being a teenager. This book brought her critical acclaim and international praise for her writing and experiences.

Wild: From Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed is a memoir that tracks her solo

drawing when was five years which beganhiked her artistic journey. Her full name wasalong Marguerite Annie Johnson. Her older brother nicknamed Mya. hike theshe Pacific Crest Trail.old, In 1995, Strayed 1,100 her miles from became the best-sold book of the year in 2018. This When her parents separated, she was sent to live in Stamps, Arkansas. She lived with Mojave Desert, throughof California andshe Oregon all the way to and the Bridge In the college, at the University Waterloo, studied rhetoric her paternalofgrandmother, who owned a general store and did well economically the Gods in Washington. record-breaking book Milk is taking the world by storm, captivating though it professional was the Greatwriting. Depression. Angelou briefly lived with her mother. She2.5 was a and Honey, her debut book, solf over sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend. After this experience she became mute for nearly five years. She moved The journey begins with Strayed expressing her disillusionment withhas the million copies. Her the bookObama came from a poem she wide scholars, and critics. In Binspiration ,for Michelle tells the story of again tovariety Oakland of withreaders, her mother and her brother. He attended aecoming labor school and became the first cable car conductor death of her mother from lung cancer. She was very distant from the in San Francisco. written in the past about the resilience of women to overcome remainder of her her family, her as father, brother,meeting and sister.her Herhusband, downward her life growing up on the south side of Chicago, time a lawyer,

spiral She hadShe a huge impact on herworker, marriage to her husband. two divorced She had many professions in her young adulthood. anything. was describes a fry cook,women a sex as being a nightclub “smooth dancer a milkThe and and performer, thick as a and she began using opioids. In order to change her life, and endalso her Barack Obama well as and herBess experience being ofa the mother. takesLeadership readersConference. into her She life and cast member of the as opera Porgy , a nd a coordinator SouthernShe Christian honey”. Her second book, The Sun and Her Flowers was published in October 2017, and explores themes of suffering, she decided to partake on this trail, alone, with zero hiking worked as a journalist in Ghana.

the that made her wholead she is. She shares ofhas hera large life as well as experience. thehave stories of her life that to her downward spiral andhighlights theKaur onesalso that motivated her to keep loss, experiences traumaWild andshows revolution. Today, Kaur performs her poetry across thethe world. social Angelou’s work is held She in high because awakenings of the groundbreaking nature herasmemoir This shifted the way going on her journey. hadesteem many spiritual on the journey as of well physicalwriting. and mental challenges. The media following asTimes an “instapoet” it personal asina Oprah’s platform elevate her work.inspires the disappointments. From aandwise perspective, Michelle readers toinbe African publicly discussed their lives. Ittoalso helped increase black feminist writings the the book is aAmerican New Yorkwomen Bestseller and is uses included Book Club. It Obama was published in 2012. 1970s.

authors of their own truths, their own stories and overcome the odds.

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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, the first Black First Lady of the United States ofI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings America, was born on January 17th, 1964. She is married to Barack was written in 1969 by writer and Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Michelle grew up on the South poet Maya Angelou. This is the first book in an seven part volume Side of Chicago, Illinois. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a city water plant employee. The family lived in the South Shore community area, series. It is a coming of age story that uncovers Angelou’s character, which she rented from her great aunt. She attended Princeton University, childhood trauma and experiences with racism. The book begins when following her brother to Honey the same and graduated cumwritten laude inby 1985. She Milk and is a school poetry and prose book Rupi Kaur. Cheryl Strayed is an American writer, novelist and podcast host. recalls inAngelou is very young and leaves St Louis to live with her grandparents her memoir that her teachers advised her to not apply to an Ivy League She was born too inpublished high. Spangler, in2014 1968. She later moved to It was on Pennsylvania November 4th, lasted over school for fear of setting expectations that were Upon attending Princeton sheand explained that it 77 was in Stamps, Arkansas at the age of three. The story follows her sexual Minnesota, where her parents divorced. She lived in a home that her the first time that she was aware of her race. the New York Times The book divided familyweeks built, on themselves, which didBest not Seller have List. electricity, or isplumbing assault, depression and inferiority complex growing up. It evolves to show her upbringing into a young woman, Post graduation, she earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School with more confidence. She later worked until she moved away for college. into 4 chapters which reflect a journey from “Hurting” to at the law firm, Sidley and Austin, where who learns how to speak up for herself and combat racism. It highlights themes of identity, rape, racism and she met Barack Obama. Michelle also worked as an assistant to the Chicago mayor in 1991. Obama gained important She position in 1996 as executive director of She an graduated from writes the in University of Minnesota with acommunity BA infirst English “Healing”. lowercase letters, shifts between literacy. affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She worked there 2008 when the lung primary campaign for was and Women’s Studies. Her until mother died from cancer when she and in second person breaks many of about the traditional rules presidency began. a senior college. Sheand frequently writes the impact ofof her Michelle Obama became onemother’s death on her life. of thepage mostpoetry. prolificShe celebrities of way her time as First of the United rites this to honor her Lady culture, specifically The book is the most highly acclaimed of all her autobiographies. It became a bestseller, immediately after States. She played an exceptionally active role in issues and campaigns that mattered to her. Some of the major In addition to her memoir, Wild, and aand few novels, Strayed Gurmukhi script. It is her intention for writing to be accessible being published. The book catapulted her to fame and has never been out of frame. It has also ushered in an issues that she countered were homelessness, women’s rights, LGBT rights, her health of children. has She also published work in The Washington Post , T he New York Times , Vogue, Tin House , and several other papers garnered a successful public image inthemes popularexplored culture, for her fashion include statements, discipline self and care presence. Her and and easy for the reader to follow.. The in this work abuse, love, and era of black women publishing autobiography in a shameless manner. Today, it is still a prominent book in high magazines. She also contributed to a popular advice column in The Rumpus, known as “Dear Sugar”. She has latest venture post‑presidency has been the release of her memoir Becoming , in 2018.

also co‑hosted the Dear Sugars podcast for four years. She considers herself a feminist activist. school classrooms and college classes. heartbreak.

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