The Bella Bulletin Newsletter: June 2021 Edition

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Entertainer, Civil Rights Activist and French Resistance agent, Josephine Baker

We Interviewed: Joelle Tirado Check out our interview with former BALI intern, Joelle Tirado to learn about her experience with BALI, her future endeavors and some advice for our BALI youth.

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Table of Contents We Interviewed: Joelle Tirado…………..……….3 Featured Article in USA Today By Liz Abzug…..5 Headlines of the month…………….…………..…8 Feminist Five!.............................………........….…10 Happy birthday to…………….…………..…..…... .12 This Month in Women’s History…….…………13 Enrichment Opportunities…….……….……....14 BALI Staff……………………………………………..16 BELLA BULLETIN STAFF ………………………….......17

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BALI MEMORY?

WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON/LEARNING EXPERIENCE YOU GAINED FROM BALI?

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WHAT MADE YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU WANTED TO STUDY?

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WHAT ARE YOUR POSTGRADUATION PLANS?

HOW DID YOU FIND COMMUNITY IN COLLEGE?

WHAT’S SOME ADVICE YOU’D GIVE TO THE YOUNGER BALI YOUTH OR YOUTH IN GENERAL?

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My mother introduced the first LGBTQ rights bill to Congress. Let's make her proud.

Much has improved for LGBTQ Americans since my mom, Bella Abzug, fought for them in Congress. But America still has a lot of room to grow.

Forty-seven years ago this month, my mother, Bella Abzug, introduced the nation’s first gay rights bill in Congress. It would have amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to included lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans. My mother, ever the pioneering reformer, saw the clear and urgent need for addressing discrimination that far too often destroyed people’s well-being and lives.

While much has improved for LGBTQ Americans since that spring day in 1974 – with growing opportunities for living openly and in safety, for marrying and for serving in the nation’s military – discrimination remains a daily reality for many in our communities. For nearly a halfcentury, however, Congress has failed to follow my mother’s lead to extend equal nondiscrimination protections to all LGBTQ people – despite polling showing overwhelming and bipartisan support across the nation for doing just that.

Anti-LGBTQ discrimination is not some abstract or political football.

Instead, it has profoundly damaging, real-life and often lifelong consequences for LGBTQ Americans. More than 1 in 3 LGBTQ folks, according to a 2020 Center for American Progress survey, experienced discrimination of some kind – perhaps in public spaces, on the job, in schools and in their own neighborhoods – in the previous year, with that number rising to over 60% among transgender people.

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Severe consequences Vulnerable groups, including communities of color, transgender folks, seniors and youth, face especially severe consequences.

According to a 2013 report by multiple advocacy groups, unemployment and poverty rates – already higher among people of color than among whites – are significantly higher yet among LGBTQ people of color, particularly Black LGBTQ people, who are more likely than their white LGBTQ counterparts to be raising children under these burdens.

Women die in combat: Men-only military draft is a vestige of antiwomen bias.

Supreme Court should strike it down. According to a large 2016 report, transgender Americans experience unemployment and poverty at 2.5 to three times the national average, and almost 1 in 3 have experienced homelessness in their lifetime. Violence also stalks the lives of trans people – with nearly half of adults, 47%, reporting having been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives and a record 44 killings last year, most of them targeting women of color.

Unsurprisingly, psychological distress, including suicide attempts, far exceeds the level confronted Americans generally.

Among LGBTQ elders, same-sex couples face persistent discrimination in securing senior housing, while our community’s youth face bullying and depression and risk for suicide at alarmingly high levels, with less than half the states providing explicit protections against harassment and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

After 47 years, there is now hope that Congress might finally be ready to act. For the first time, both Democrats and Republicans have put forward measures that include LGBTQ protections in our nation’s civil rights laws. The major bone of contention between the two parties’ bills involves how to balance the urgent need to protect LGBTQ people with the religious freedoms all Americans enjoy.

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We need 'Battling Bella's' fighting spirit My mother, known by many as “Battling Bella,” famously never shied away from a fight. At the same time, she was deeply committed to getting things done, saying “I want action – not talk.”

For example, she partnered with Republican Rep. Barry Goldwater to get the Privacy Rights Act of 1974 over the finish line. She coauthored and championed Title IX – the historic law prohibiting discrimination on basis of sex by educational institutions receiving federal funding – accepting that an exemption for religious schools was a price of winning. Over the fierce opposition of many leaders of the women’s rights movement, she knew it was critical that conservative women – including opponents of abortion – be invited to the first National Women’s Conference in 1977.

We need this kind of courageous leadership today from the Republican and Democratic senators who say they support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people. We need them to get out of their safe corners and find common ground. This is what legislating is all about and it doesn’t require sacrificing fundamental principles.

After nearly five decades, it’s time for Congress to finally deliver on my mother’s vision and include LGBTQ people – coast to coast – in the protections provided to all other Americans by the Civil Rights Act. Liz Abzug is a national public affairs and strategic consultant, and founder and president of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, New York City.

Dress code double-standards: Edited Bartram Trail High School yearbook photos are as inherently sexist as they are unsightly

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onto the Order second stage in which officially emancipating enslaved persons. members propose amendments to it. to hold young may people of Rwanda; daring Although there a long 3 way to one go until bill General Order No. was of this many President is Paul Kagame’s government becomes law, introduction toonto parliament throughout states to hold slavery accountable itsthat for tried corruption, censorship, and alone hasthe dismantle about well after Emancipation Proclamation.

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The she fight collected for Juneteenth be president. signatures to runto for recognized a national holiday were began then shortly Rwigara asand her mother arrested on after the death of Martin Luther King Jr, a time accounts of fraud, incitement, and when encouraging the celebration of Black “discrimination and sectarian practices” quickly history was a widespread concern. In 1980, following the creation of the former candidate’s state representative Al Edwards made Texas the campaign and response to her disqualification: first state to make Juneteenth a holiday. Since the “People Salvation Movement.” According then, organizations like the National Juneteenth to her family and her supporters, who have also Observance Foundation, and activist Opal Lee Recent reported that the ​United faced studies severehave consequences for being connected have the federal recognition of States pushed Census for Bureau ​will incorrectly count to Rwigara, her disqualification and arrest were Juneteenth.

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Women’s History of the month: JUNE The Utah Territorial passes Marie Curie becomes Legislature the first woman in a bill allowing women to vote.degree in France to receive a doctoral February 12, 1869 radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris.

Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Jewish organization in American history, focusing on healthcare and education in the Israel and the U.S. February 24, 1912

Esther Hobart Morris in Wyoming became June 25, 1903 the first American woman Justice of the Alice Robertson (R-Oklahoma) becomes Peace. the first woman to chair the House of February 17, 1870 Representatives.

June 20, 1921

Georgia Neese Clark confirmed as the first woman treasurer of the United States.

June 9, 1949

Equal Pay Act enacted: “To prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers U.S. Supreme Court upholds the 19th engaged in commerce or in the Amendment to the Constitution, production of goods for commerce.” which guarantees women the right June 10, 1963 to vote.

February 27, 1922

Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star.

February 24, 1967

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) plays its first game.

June 21, 1997

The Suffrage Monument, depicting Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, sculpted by Adelaide Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol.

February 15, 1921 Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is signed by President Nixon. This legislation guarantees equal access and equal opportunity for female and male students in almost all aspects of our educational systems.

June 23, 1972

Tenley Albright became the first Connie Chung becomes the second American woman to win the World Figure woman to co-anchor the evening news, 17 Skating championship. years after Barbara Walters became the February 15, 1953 first in 1976.

June 1, 1993

First postage stamp to honor a black woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Washington, DC. February 1, 1978

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Girls on the Run offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in Girls on the Run offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in grades 3-8.

Girls Leadership ​offers Parent & Daughter workshops, parent education, and summer day camps for girls grades 3-8. entering grades 4 and 5.

Girls Who Code offers afterschool and summer programming in coding for middle and high Girls Who Code offers afterschool and summer programming in coding for middle and high school girls.

Girls on the Run ​offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in grades 3-8. school girls.

Girls Write NowCode​ offers programs in writing,in digital media, andhigh college preparation Girls Who offersmentoring afterschool and summer programming coding for middle and school girls.

Girls Write Now offers mentoring programs in writing, digital media, and college preparation for girls. for girls.

Girls Write Now​ offers mentoring programs in writing, digital media, and college preparation for girls.

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GOALS for Girls offers year‑round programming, a summer intensive, weekend forums, and internships

GOALS for Girls offers year-round programming, a summer intensive, weekend forums, and in STEM for middle and high school girls. internships in STEM for middle and high school girls.

LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small‑group mentoring for young Latinas.

LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small-group mentoring for young Latinas.

Life is Precious offers individual and groups counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and nutritional

Life is Precious offers individual and group counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and and fitness activities to prevent suicide among young Latinas. nutritional and fitness activities to prevent suicide among young Latinas.

Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and advocacy, as

Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and well as mentoring for girls in grades 6‑12. advocacy, as well as mentoring for girls in grades 6-12.

Northeast Regional Alliance (NERA) MedPrep Program a preparatory program for students between

NYC GREAT! offers programming and mentoring in college and career readiness for high junior high and college who wish to pursue careers in the medical field. The NERA MedPrep program has school girls. partnerships with five medical institutions including the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

NYU GSTEM is a six-week summer program for high school girls during the summer between

their junior and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects.

NYC GREAT! offers programming and mentoring in college and career readiness for high school girls.

Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer afterschool NYU GSTEM is a six‑week summer program for high school girls during the summer between their junior programming in physical activity and healthy living. and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects.

Sadie Nash Leadership Project provides afterschool and summer programming in leadership Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer after‑school programming in and social justice for girls ages 14-22. physical activity and healthy living.

Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues faced by young faced bywomen of color. young women of color.

Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and a free summer enrichment program for college students media programming for girls ages 13-19.

Summer Health Professions Education Program pursuing health professions.

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers afterschool and summer music programing for girls.

The Whitney Museum of Art arts programs and events for teens at the Whitney Museum of American

YWCA provides programming in leadership and advocacy, STEAM, career and college Art. exploration, and more for girls.

Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and media programming for girls ages 13‑19.

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers after‑school and summer music programming for girls.

Young Women's Christian Association an organization that informs women on societal issues that affect them and encourages them to vote

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