The Bella Bulletin Newsletter: May 2021 Edition

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Happy birthday to…

Lorraine Hansberry, an iconic playwright, writer and activist who used her various platforms to highlight black stories and struggles.

Protesting the unjust “strata” System In one of our headlines of the month, we discuss the ongoing fight for fair taxation, equality within healthcare and education as well as prison reform within the poor and indigenous community in Columbia.

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Table of Contents Headlines of the Month……………………………......3 Feminist Five!...................…….…….………..……...….5 Happy birthday to……………………..…..............….... .7 Women’s History of the month.……..………..…... .8 SafeBae……………..……………….……...................….. .9 Stay Insta-Informed……..…................…………... .10 Enrichment Opportunities…….…….…………........11 BALI Staff…………………………….….................….…13 BELLA BULLETIN STAFF ……………………….……….....14

Headlines of the Month Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, ​A Black woman from North Carolina will go down in history for leading the effort to solve the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Kizzmekia 30 days after being nominated

by President Corbett is a Trump, Amy Coney Barrett was officially research fellow On 6, long-awaited of court For April the past month, violence resulting from the sworn-in as the a Supreme Court results Justice onthe October and scientific lead This past March, officers Brett Hankinson, Myles case surrounding George Floyd’s murder were On Wednesday, July 29, Mexico’s Supreme Court occupation of Palestine by Israel has been at an all time 27th.

Based on herwill judicial record ongo​gun rights Amanda Gorman undoubtedly down in Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly, barged into high.

Some say that heightened tensions began back in at the National (SCJN) halted a ​ tremendous milestone for released, and former police officer Derek and immigration as well as her public history for being the poet that stole the show April, when Isreali officials placed at first the Last month Chloé made history as the Breonna Taylor’s house under ainjunction “no-knock abortion rights

by Zhao voting against anbarriers in of Health.

Chauvin was guilty on ​LInstitut all counts.

Charged statements onfound abortion and GBTQ+ rights​ ,were it at is Damascus Gate that prevented those who for her performance of “ ​ The Hill We Climb” warrant” as she and her boyfriend, K ​ enneth Veracruz.

The injunction, approvedGlobe by a for judge in Asian woman to win a Golden Best She was on the celebrating Ramadan tothird-degree gather at the aal-Aqsa Mosque. for second and murder clear that Barrett’s nomination will shift Walker​ ,Veracruz were sleeping and fired barrage ofand 32 President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Xalapa, ordered the state’s congress to Director.

Zhao’s win also comes nearly 40 years Since then, there have been air strikes, hundreds of nation’s highest court severely to the right.

The frontlines working with a team of scientists, second-degree manslaughter, with a unanimous bullets that k ​ illed Taylor​ .

This month, a remove articles 149,of Israeli 150, ofthethe local Harris’ atinauguration this and year.154 Gorman, the fatalities the hands police, and threat of after Barbara Streisand became the very first backlash against Barrett’s nomination is Jefferson County grand jury only indicted one of decision from the jury, Derek Chauvin could face studying Moderna's vaccine, one offrom the two penal code.

This decision would have the forced eviction of Palestinian families Sheikh United States’ first Youth Poet Laureate and the two-fold: Many Americans are concerned about female director to win a Golden Globe.

Zhao the three Hankinson, and only charged decriminalizeed abortions within 12Chauvin’s weeks, Jarrah.

To officers, read further aboutAlthough the history of the up to 75 years in prison.

COVID-19 vaccines shown be effective by youngest inaugural poet at to the age of 22 cases years how Barrett’s stance will play out in court him for endangering Taylor’s neighbors.

None Israel-Palestine conflict, see Decolonize Palestine. allowed for abortions due to health risks, and was awarded for her film “Nomadland,” a drama conviction was rightfully celebrated, Minnesota more thanalready 90 percent.

Finding a vaccine to old,thehas had aon lifetime’s worth of of officers were charged for the death of dealing with LGBTQ+ rights and abortion abolished the time limit abortions for cases starring Frances McDormand that follows the Attorney General Keith Ellison and many others combat COVID-19 has been crucial toupsaving achievements, but she’s only going from Breonna Taylor.

Inplan addition, leaked involving rape. for removing these three (particularly inThe ​Fulton v.

City ofrecently Philadelphia ​), life of an itinerant woman traveling the United have said that they would not call this verdict body-cam footage reveals Brett Hankinson and lives a national and global level. articles was originally introduced by the here.on This month, has already made history and people are she furious with the women’s Trump States in a van.

Her upcoming project is Marvel’s “justice,” but rather, accountability.

Myles Cosgrove r ​ eturning to Taylor’s residence rights organizations National Commission to again as the firstfor poet fast-tracking to perform at the Super administration Barrett’s and on evidence after Prevent and rather Eradicate Violence Women long-awaited film “Eternals.”

Furthermore, Chauvin isallowing one ofagainst the​“American very few nomination thanpotential the Bowlcommenting where she delivered her people poem Chorus of Black Americans and other of color the incident took place.

Needless to say, folks (Conavim) and the National Institute for Women police officers actually prosecuted for misuse of people to let ​dtheir vote for president influence the Captains.” have been isproportionately affected (InMujeres) 2016. Unfortunately, ​fourTaylor’s out by of across the in country are furious that the force.justice to fill the place of the late Ruth five judges against upholding the injunction. death occurred at all, and now, Taylor Covid-19​ , voted increasing the that urgency amongis Bader Ginsburg, considering Republicans While denied this decision have only affected the being justice.would health experts community leaders to prevented formerand president, Barack Obama, state of Veracruz, activists hoped that it would set This past month, poor and indigenous Colombian build and Scalia trust into2016. the vaccine. But from ​rconfidence eplacingfor Justice the precedent states do universal the same.basic protestors fighting other for fair taxation, skepticism people color, income, betteramong equality some in education and of healthcare, and police reform, have been metremains with immense especially Black Americans, high. police brutality. Although the initial tax reform bill that sparked the protests has since been repealed, civilians Aarestudy released by thethe COVID continuing to protest vastlyCollaborative, unjust “strata” system and all of its accompanying inequalities.

To Last NAACP month, and the United States National Park the UnidosUS found that made only This January, ​Senator Raphael support protestors in Colombia, scrollWarnock to the bottom of India is named currently facingA.aSmith COVID-19 crisis.

With Service Pamela the new chief of 14% of Black Americans trust that a vaccine Information on President Trump’s long-awaited this article. history as Georgia’s very first Black senator, the

around 350,000 new infections every tax-returns has been released by day, thea the United States Parktrust Police, making her will safe and finally 18% it will effective. first be Black democrat senator to be represent New Black York are Times​ . According to the their report, hospitals spread thin and unable to first woman tolargely ever position.

Their concerns stem from aleadership, history of southern state, and th​ e ​1hold 1th Black senator In a seismic shift in as governmental Trump, the only president in recent history to After winning the Democratic nomination this accommodate the swarms ofWarnock’s people in win need of Smith, was worked with the for the racism inthe medical research and healthcare everrelease inwho United States. was Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, ​FUSPP iame Naomi not his tax-returns, paid $750 the year July, Candace Valenzuela could now make history immediate care.

Many families are being forced past 23 years, isresigned praised for herher commitment to Mata’afa has from government made possible by Stacey Abrams and that includes incidents like the uskegee he won the presidential election and hismany first by becoming the first Black Latina in ​Tthe Congress​ . to turn to unreliable treatments and overpriced position to run against her former party, the transparency and the professionalism of law year in office.

In 10 of the past 15 years, other trailblazing v ​ oting rights activists that syphilis experiment​ , the study found.

Valenzuela is an educator, a member of her school oxygen andhe other medical resources on the Human Rights Protection Party inyear’s the however, didn’t any taxes successfully Georgia blue in enforcement.

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Fiame’s decision to resign and run supported List, United, presidential Smith intends to pilot the use ofCitizens body cameras Corbett has ​sEMILY’s een vaccine hesitancy in Black he made.

In addition, he is currently in a dispute against her is aasrejection current Prime listed thisparty article well as of Rapid Response, the in Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the in Santhe Francisco and hopefully implement the communities firsthand and recognizes that Reproductive rights in the United States are now in with IRS over the legitimacy of a $72.9 Congressional Black Aiono Caucus, thetoMalielegaoi’s Congressional Minister, Sailele Making theTuilaepa Difference, andannounced Ketto help. limbo after the Supreme Court that it would program nationwide by the end of 2021. million tax refund.

Trump has rebuilding trust in Unsurprisingly, medical institutions will Asian American Pcific American Caucus, andclaim was recently established laws that critics hear direct challenges to laws that support the right to

referred to the report assomething ​“Lewis. fake news.” endorsed bySamoa’s the late constitution.

John take time, which is that health undermine

experts have to accept. ​Thankfully, Dr. abortion. The case being taken up by the court is Dobbs Corbett, a black woman herself and v Jacksonbeing Women’s Health Organization, and the will determine if Mississippi can limit abortion to 15 weeks one behind the vaccines development, has (currently, abortion up to 24 weeks is legal everywhere been able States). to reassure of recently black in the United In addition,some Texas has enacted a law that after 6 vaccine’s weeks and community of bans theabortions ​COVID-19 criminalizes those that help others receive an aboriton effectiveness andSupreme it beingCourt’s safe for individuals after 6 weeks. The decision will be This October, Cameroon’s A ​ nglophone Crisis released in June 2022. to take. Corbett did however say to people has reached higher stakes after a fatal shooting who about the that, In the theare pasthesitant year, cities across thevaccine United States at Mother Francisca International Bilingual The day before New York City public schools “You've earned the righttrans torise askwoman, thehate questions have witnessed a made startling in crimes Jena Faith, 43-year-old just Academy inaKumba thatofresulted inathe deaths were scheduled to open, the ofhas School Deb history this month by CicelyHaaland Tyson, ahas beacon lightCouncil and major role that you have around these vaccines and this (content warning: offensive language and made history in Steuben County​ , NY by filing a of children under 14-years-old.

Supervisors and Administrators (CSA) ​declared becoming the first Native American ever to bea modelsix in the film and theater industry, suddenly lawsuit against theAsian county forhave the abuse she vaccine development process,” but she is violence) against American and Pacific “No Confidence” vote against Mayor Bill de Unfortunately, the shooters been passed away month at agearrested 96.Member Anot native confirmed asinlast ajail.

Cabinet secretary. of experienced Faith was back in Blasio and Chancellor Richard due to Islander individuals. toCarranza manytrust. activists, identified yet.

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While shewill was originally placed in a immigrants, Tyson lived an ​icharge ncredibly extensive Interior Secretary, be in of managing schools in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anglophones in Cameroon started to Corbett protest xenophobic and racist narratives that connect Dr.calling women’s facility, she was abruptly moved 65-year-long career filled with masterfully Along with the vote, the CSA is onto dea the country’s public lands, endangered species, their oppression atcommunity the hands ofspread the members of the AAPI to the men’s facility she was misgendered, denied her has been Blasio andperformances, Carranza to relinquish control of the impactful like her first lead role natural and Francophone government.

Since due to In the pastreplacement fewresources, months, several statesthen, havemanage pushed hormone treatment, and sexually of COVID-19.

In response to the spike in hate city's Department of (​ 1972).

Education for the outspoken on as “Rebecca” in S ​ ounder Tyson was also the government’s violent suppression of these forward legislation that forces trans athletes to government-government relationships between assaulted.

The lawsuit Faith filed upon her crimes, the Senate has passed legislation that remainder of the pandemic and to seek out the the role compete ontensions teams align with their assigned gender revolutionary forthat the way she protests, have continued todemanded rise and release, however, now ledthat to multiple reforms the United States and Native American Tribes. assistance of thehas New York State education improves the process of reporting anda at birth.

In Mississippi, the “Mississippi Fairness Act” respect intothe industry: She was not systemic over 5,000 soldiers, separatist fighters, and dedicated protecting trans inmates.

As aonly result department.

According to CSA leaders, school targets trans hate student athletes that attendsupport public investigating crimes.

For of theseofIn reforms, trans inmates inways Steuben civilians have been killed.

Not onlyto has this leader the Black is movement, but racism has officials want to get school’s reopened asCounty safely schools.

Minnesota, aBeautiful proposed bill permits the the AAPI community, see this article, and always will have access to gender-affirming care, will be conflict resulted in immense violence, it also she asalso refused to girl play characters that criminalization ofasany trans that participates or tries and quickly possible. played in the able to wear clothing that aligns with their gender, support local mutual aid requests out for women’s sports.

Florida’s anti-trans bill prevented almost oneorAnd million children from portrayed demeaning flawed images of Black pandemic, and that hasreferred criticized the Trump and legally must be to by their correct initially mandated some student athletes would attending school Tyson’s right now. impacted individuals! identity.

Cicely legacy lives onwhether in the undergo physical examinations to determine administration for a lack of diversity on its names and pronouns. thousands of Black artists Since that trans she has inspired, or not they could participate. youth already coronavirus task force. face high rates of depression, suicidal ideation, and and her work will undoubtedly be remembered

bullying and harassment, exclusionary policies like for years to these putespecially thecome. mentalwhen healthitand being of trans "Trust, haswell been stripped youth on the line.

from people, has to be rebuilt in a brick-by-brick fashion,"costume-designer she said. "AndRuth so, Last month, trailblazing what I say tobecame people firstly is that I empathize, E. Carter the first Black costume and secondly I'm to do my designer to athat star on going the summit, Hollywood Daysthen before areceive majorisUN biodiversity 64 In the past few months, t ​ he Greek government Just 20 minutes before Derek Chauvin was part in laying those bricks.

And I think that if world ofleaders signed the ​Leader’s Pledge for Walk Fame.

Carter,over known forasylum her work on has secretly expelled 1,000march seekers North Carolina’s “I Am Change” began as declared guilty, police officer Nicholas Reardon Nature​, among them Angela Merkel, Justin everyone onlike our side, physicians and Black Panther (2018), Selma bypeaceful sending them offas in occasionally ablockbusters protest to encourage voter turnout Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, and Boris Bryant Johnson. shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia in malfunctioning life rafts.

Despite the scientists, about it that way, thenismany the (2014), andwent Dolemite isinto My Name (2019), also but q ​ uickly devolved violence when law The document is a 10-point pledge that plans to Nia Dennis has once again gone viral forwith an Columbus, Ohio.

Trapped inillegal an altercation outcries against Greece’s actions, the trust would start to be rebuilt." the second costume designer ever to have her enforcement arrived in riot gear and gas masks reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

The pledge incredibly engaging floor routine celebrating older women, Ma’Khia Bryant dialed 911 for government has25, denied the allegations.

Some On Monday, hundreds of thousands of and demanded that protestors topeople the warns thatMay humanity is facing a move climate crisis name engraved in the Hollywood walk of fame, Black history and culture.

The routine experts suggest that recent humanitarian gathered across the globethis to honor Floyd and assistance, butthat Reardon shot Bryant almost and years declares it will reduce deforestation sidewalk.

Despite the fact thatatGeorge the protestors 60 after fellow costume-designer Edith violation is a result of other European countries mark the year since he died at the hands of incorporated music by MissyaElliot, instantly once hethe saw thatBeyoncé, she was using knife and applied unsustainable fishing practices, eliminate had for permit to be there, officers Minneapolis police – a death captured on a wrenching not providing enough Greece and for Head.

Two years ago, assistance Carter alsotoLamar, became the Tupac Shakur, Kendrick to protect herself.

Read moreofsubsidies, about thespray, case, environmentally harmful and quickly resorted toand the use pepper bystander video that galvanized the racial justice taking in a high influx of Syrian refugees.

Also, first Blackaspects woman to towinbring a costume-design included of popular dances throughout encourage sustainable food production movement and continues calls for change. and dangers of misogynoir and the harming the children, elderly folks, and disabled rising the tensions between Greece and Turkey have Floyd’s sister Bridgett and other family members held Oscar for her incredible work on Black Panthe. systems.

The pledge also puts pressure ona Black history, taking a knee in tandem with folks that were the crowd. led people toofinBlack believe that both adultification children here. nations are moment of that silencecontribute at a “Celebration of Life” event at a countries the most greenhouse Colin Kaepernick​ , and stepping, a form of dance weaponizing Syrian refugees tofew place pressure on downtown Minneapolis park, a miles away, gasses like the US, Brazil, China, and Russia. from

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by Black fraternities and sororities. one another.

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Headlines of the Month the site of the intersection where Floyd died. Dozens of people kneeled around a steel fist sculpture for several minutes — symbolizing the 9 minutes, 29 seconds during which Floyd was pinned down. Other members of Floyd’s family met in Washington with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who urged Congress to quickly pass a law in Floyd’s name that would bring changes to policing. A moment of silence to honor Floyd was also held in New York and a rally was held in Los Angeles. Globally, a rally took place in Germany and Floyd’s death was marked by U.S. embassies in Greece and Spain.

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"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers everywhere the feeling that

An ​Inthe The intimate Healing America: of adebut family Anovel Global and anQuest epic tale of Better, hope Cheaper, and struggle, ​Sfrom Fairer ing, A striking the words andportrait surprising ofofauthor Sunisa Manning, from an exhilarating AforGood True new Thai voice, is and Such about a Fun “politics, Age is ​InIn early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed their

anything is​ author possible within themselves"--Princess Nokia, musician and Iep isand the book ever published by amethods writer from the Marshall Islands — original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which isstory part Sing ​ first examines ugly truths at the heart of the American and page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around anow young Health Care, T.R. Reid describes the that other protest, radicalization” from the lens of three wildly different university “​aUnburied, DJāltok ocuments centuries ofthe techniques designed to limit progress inindustrialized the black ofcommunity.

Oklahoma. co-founder of Two the hundred Smart Girl Club later, Joy Harjo returns to her black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a citizens surprising connection that some may be upsetting, this is family’s amake book the power – Although and limitations –ofyears ofthe family the 29 atolls and five islands the U.S. government thought would swell democracies have used to that provide healthcare forthe for far less than students in 1970’s Thailand.

In material thebonds. novel, main character, Det,what the lands and opens a dialogue with history. threatens to absolutely undoofthem both. that should in just the curriculum."

– ​Starred is spent for health carebe inincluded the United These countries, in review, doing soaSchool for great-grandson the king who has his mother, meets Chang, bright testing grounds for nuclear weapons inStates. thelost 1940s and 1950s.

The United States Library Connection In ​Bmoney, theyears Gender Binary ​, poet, artist, andtheir LGBTQIA+ rights Alok Jojo iseyond thirteen old and trying to understand what it means to advocate bewith a man.

His less universal coverage for all citizens. fromprovide the Klong and Lek, a in Chinese immigrant Instudent ​An67 American Sunrise ​, Toey Harjo finds blessings the abundance herradical tested nuclear weapons in theslums, Marshalls, including the 1954 Castleof Bravo test Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary. mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her.

She is ideals, andand becomes acquainted theirher respective circles. homeland confronts the sitewith where people,political and other indigenous onWhen Bikini Atoll, 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb on Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing America achieves milestones of brutal progress toward full and dropped equal black black and her children's father is white.

Embattled in ways that reflect the reality of her circumstances, she families, essentially disappeared.

From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the T.R. Reid describes his purpose in writing this book to “search the developed world for effective health care other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Hiroshima. native movement, tobut the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines withracist participation in democracy, the systemic response isdrug a of consistent wants torights betoatake better mother, can't putthat her children above her own needs, especially her use. systems and lessons from the ones work best.”

Not surprisingly, Reid finds positives and negatives in According Manning, this novel came several veins of inspiration.

Onestore's source inspiration Chamberlains' toddler onewriting night, walking the aisles offrom their local high-end supermarket.

The security guard, was tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, backlash thatsystems rolls back those wins.

We Are in Not Yet Equal examines five these moments: The endcrowd of the many of the he evaluates in an fashion.

His conclusion thatof all of these other her discovery of the history oflate Thai nobility the 1970s that radicalized and sacrificed theirplans for the seeing a young woman out with aunbiased white accuses Emira of kidnapping Briar.

Apower smallspend illuminating ablack spirituality that connects herchild, to her ancestors and thrums two-year-old with the quiet anger of living When the children's father iswrote released from packs her kids andto anuclear friend into her car and drives north In her poetry, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner the intersection of colonialism, testing, climate change, and "Thank we have Alok.

And I'm learning aLeonie thing two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning less on health care administration than theprison, United States, achieve better outputs than the US system, and Civil War and wasconfronts greeted with Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North oppressed.

Manning also the novel as aJim historical fiction piece allow herself more freedom when gathers, aGod bystander films everything, and Emira is furious andor humiliated.

Alix resolves to make things right. in the ruins ofReconstruction injustice. to the heart ofand Mississippi and theater Parchman State Penitentiary.

At Parchman, is on another boy, the actor, singer, Broadway resistance.

Jetnil-Kijiner speaks theperformer irony ofthe an American uproar over nuclear there testing goats pigs, for cover citizens their countries isFarm, irrefutable. commenting on within the monarchy, and power inwere Thailand, a privilege also to and herfrom by her duringallthe Great Migration wasof access, limited when blacks physically blocked from allowed moving away the ghost of aherself dead inmate whobroke, carries allwary of the history of the South with him in wandering.

He too has But is aimless, and of ugly Alix's desire tobrokenness help.

At twenty-five, shehis isamong about to lose her health “AnEmira American Sunrise full of of celebration, crisis, and with poems that rely on Thai-American heritage.

Finally, Manning haspost-nuclear-testing also discussed thatcancer the healing, novel gave her an opportunity to instance, when little was is made the rampant, rates the Marshallese.

South; the Supreme ​Brown Board ability of Education decision waswitty met with thetoshutting “Not many writers Court's of any landmark ilk… can1954 match T.R.v.Reid’s to bring a light, touch really reimagine her mother’s experience as a poor Chinese immigrant student in 1970s Thailand. lyric techniques like repetition, avoidance of temporal specifics and the urge to speak down offind public schools thethat South; the Civil Rights Act ofthink 1964they andknow Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to serious topics–like health policy around theupend globe.”–New America Foundation women themselves onthroughout a crash course will everything they about themselves, and each songwriter collectively…”

Through her poemsand thatpiercing range in style—the predominantly freeexplores verse andofends with picture poems laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and atext War on Drugs that disproportionately other.

With empathy social commentary, Such a Fun Age thebegins stickiness transactional something to teach about fathers sons, violence, love. insurance and hasthis noJojo idea what do with her life. about When legacies, the Smith, videoabout ofGrammy Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, bothand "When reading book, allto I feel isand kindness."--Sam andabout Oscar award-winning singer

Rich with Ward's distinctive, lyrical language, ​Sing, Unburied, Sing ​brings the archetypal road novel into rural You can order hard copies of A Good True Thai at East Bay Book Sellers and Point Reyes Books, or read online relationships, what it prose means toTimes make someone "family," and the complicated reality of violence beingana grown up.

It the is a searing and alsoFried, includes poems—Jetñil-Kijiner reveals stark contrasts between idyllic past, diseased —Daisy ​Nand ew York twenty-first century America. targeted blacks; the election of President Obama led toirkus an outburst of including death of "A fierce, penetrating, and empowering call for change."-K ​ Reviews, ​ starred review on Amazon. debut for and our times. present, a threatened future for the environment.

black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump.

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“Epic in sweep precise in​Sing, its details, Good True Thaipoised shines fronts. ItTime and again, “However eternal but its concerns, Unburied,ASing is perfectly foron theallmoment. combines aspectsSunisa of the Manning resists easy nuance, for complexity, truth. An debut from American road novel andanswers, the ghost reaching story with for a timely treatment of the long for aftershocks of astounding a hurricane and the opioid epidemic devouring rural America ... ItChen, is Ward’s most unsparing book.”​ - Parul Sehgal, York Times a talented new voice.”

–Kirstin bestselling author of Bury What WeNew Cannot Take

“It’s time for a new beauty paradigm.”― Alok Vaid-Menon

“The sail that canoe/feeds our fights wars, claims our “I believe therepowers is powerthe inMarshallese words, power in asserting ourfamily, existence, ourour experience, our lives, land, visits clans/came from/a “It’s been a time of losses faceThis of what been victories.” through words.” ―strange Jesmyn Ward,inMother” ​ThetheFire Time:should’ve A New Generation Speaks about Race Artist activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates the ̄ il-Kijiner, Ward April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and an associate how professor of Sunisa Manning,Jesmyn True(born Thaiand - Kathy- Jetn iepA Good jāltok English atnormativity Tulane She won the 2011 National Book Award Fiction for her of the gender binary represses creativity and The ofUniversity. acaught white American father and a Thai mother descended from Kathydaughter Jetnil-Kijiner the attention of leaders around the worldfor with herinflicts poem, second novel Salvage the Bones and 2017 Book Awardand for FictionThe for Chinese immigrants, Sunisa Manning wasthe born and raised Bangkok studied at “Dear Matafele Peinem,” which she won performed at National the 2014in UN Climate summit.

physical and emotional violence.

her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.most She alsoher received a 2012 Alex Award for thethis storyunique about an international for academic career. carried poem, written asschool a letter to herofdaughter, addresses theShe impending danger of familial love community in facing Hurricane Katrina.

She isIndia, the only woman and Theand author, whose parents emigrated from writes about perspective with to Brown University where would study English and climate change andher vows to protect her homeland ofshe the Marshall Islands alongside only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice.

Expository writing. her people.

Simultaneously rooted in storytelling, her country’s history, how enforcement of the gender binary begins culture, beforeand birth and The first in her family to attend college, she earned a B.A. in English, in 1999, and an M.A. in media studies and and environmentalism, “Dear Matafele Peinem” embodies focusofoflife, Jetnil-Kijiner’s careerofascolor an educator, affects people in all the stages with people being

performer, and poet.

especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary. Gender assignments communication, in 2000, both at Stanford University. Ward chose to become a writer to honor the memory of her younger

After graduating from Brown, Manning moved back to Bangkok where she worked in rural development for

create a narrative person should behave, areher allowed to like Writing or wear, brother, ​who was killed for by ahow drunkadriver in October 2000.

In 2005,what Ward they received MFA in Creative fromand the

the Mae Fah Luang Foundation. According to Manning, her experience communicating with the farmers, some ​

how they express themself.

Punishment of nonconformity leads to anJetnil-Kijiner inseparable linkA University ofwere Michigan.​ Shortly afterwards, she andworked her family became victims of Hurricane Katrina. of whom connected to nobility, that with theaccompanying foundation inspired the material In addition to performing her poems and creating poignant videos, much Kathy of is afor local between gender shame.

Vaid-Menon challenges familiar arguments against TiredaThai. and traumatized, the family was eventually given shelter by another white down the road.

Wardgender went on Good True Afterand a robust career inAustralia non-profit work, Manning is and currently employed as adirector teacher UC journalist, current Ph.D. student at National University, a family co-founder and ofat the to work at the Jo-Jikum.

University of New Orleans, where her daily nonprofit commute took her through the neighborhoods ravaged youth by the Berkley Extension. organization Jo-Jikum is adown Majuro-based dedicated to empowering Marshallese nonconformity, breaking them into four categories—dismissal, inconvenience, biology, hurricane. Empathizing with the struggle of the survivors and coming to terms with her own experience during the storm,

through climate change-related project management, media training, and other environmental programs.

and slippery slope (fearforofthree theyears consequences ofher acceptance).

Headers in bold font Ward the was unable to write creatively – the time it took to find a publisher for her first novel, ​W herecreate the Line

In to A navigation Good True Thai, Manning isfrom an incredibly talentedto essayist and short writer.

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conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking with a best friend. At the

​ race) woman, andthe pushes against thewell Western perspective of YouSelection can danger findbyManning’s essays and is to ensure that Marshall Islands, as other Pacific in immediate of rising sea levels, accepted

by Doug Seibold atback Agate Publishing.

Theasnovel was pickedislands as Thailand. a Book Club ​Essence magazine and

same time, the author's turns of phrase in moments of deep insight ring with precision and

stories on herinwebsite. have a voice major climate discussions. received a Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Honor Award in 2009. It was shortlisted for the Virginia

poetry.

In one reflection, they write, “theandmost lethal part Legacy of theAward. human body is not the fist; it Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award the Hurston-Wright is the eye. What people see and how people see it has everything to do with power.” While this short essay speaks honestly of pain and injustice, it concludes with encouragement and an invitation into a future that celebrates transformation.

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Women’s History of the month: May

Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of established.

York to the funeral seven York City City to attend the funeral seven Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New of York.

December 10, 1938 November 1903 of unidentified victims the Triangle unidentified victims ofand the education Triangle in the focusing on14, healthcare October 16, 1916 Shirtwaist Company fire Shirtwaist Company fire in in late late March.

March.

Israel and the U.S. April April 5, 5, 1911 1911 February 24, 1912

Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen Amelia Earhart’s plane ispresents lost in the results her medical research Pacific of Ocean near Howland Island.

Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her identifying the disease cystic fibrosis Julyon 2, a1937 beatified, thetofirst American woman seat bus a white person; her at a meeting of the American U.S. Supreme Court the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the citizen to become aupholds saint.civil 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the arrest sparks the modern rights Pediatric Association.

Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second to play November 13, 1938 second woman woman toUS. play baseball in movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the May 5,guarantees 1938 which women thepitches right the minor leagues, December 1, 1955 the all-male all-male minor leagues, pitches Presbyterian Church.

Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition an exhibition game game against against the the N.Y. N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a center for October 24, 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees and strikes outthe both Babe Yankees February 27, 1922 African-American women’s history, woman to own a seat on the N.Y. Stock Ruth Lou Ruth and and Lou Gehrig.

Gehrig.

Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange.

April 2, 1931 April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11,a1967 1979 discovery of pulsar, a rapidly December 28, (at ABC).women rotating neutron star.

Fifteen the Fifteen women in in the House House of of October 4, 1976 Representatives form the Representatives February 24, 1967

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues.

Issues. discrimination in employment.

Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. April April 19, 19, 1977 1977 Hoisington July 2, 1964officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so.

May 15, 1970

The Utah Territorial Legislature a American Revolution heroine Sybil Wyoming isFalls the first territory topasses give FirstSeneca medical school for women, American Revolution heroine Sybil Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first The Convention, the Victoria Woodhull is nominated asthe theNew bill allowing women to vote.

Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles women the right to vote.

England Female Medical School, opens.

Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 milesinon on school for African-American country’s first women’s rights convention, first woman candidate for U.S.students president December 10, 1869 horseback in the middle of night November 1,Rights 1848 February 12, 1869 horseback in the middle of the the night to to Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York for the Equal Party warn the American militia that the British warn the American militia that British October 3, 1904 May 10, 1872 Women’s Rights Movement.

Mary McLeod Bethune creates thethe National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, were invading. were invading.

Council of Negro Women.

Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around the world 72 days, 6 hours, July 19-20, 1848 President Woodrow Wilson signs a became Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, April 26,5,1777 1777 the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 1935 Proclamation designating the second in May Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight.

Peace. fictional record set by Phineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the and as Mother’s Day Hall in Independence to present the Vice Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis Lewis and October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, 1870 Clark as an President with the of theDays.

Rights Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. interpreter.

May 8,Expedition 1914 November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, April Earhart 7, 1805 1805 Putnam becomes the first Amelia woman to complete a solo-transatlantic flight July 4, Quimby 1876 by flying 2,026 miles fromthe Newfoundland Harriet becomes first to Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman womanto to Ireland in just under 15 hours. fly across the English Channel. fly an an airplane airplane across 16 women from the National Women’s Party were April 16, April arrested 16, 1912 1912while picketing the White May 21, 1932 Fox Capt.

Annie receives the first Purple The Suffrage Monument, depicting Susan B. House demanding universal women’s Heart awarded to charged aCady woman for her service Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, suffrage; they with TheFrances state ofL.were Washington passes aandwoman Dr. Willoughby is the obstructing first while under attack at Pearl Harbor.

Lucretia sculpted byNavy.

Adelaide traffic. constitutional amendment to guarantee doctor inMott, the regular U.S. December 7, 1941 at the U.S. Capitol.

Johnson, is dedicated woman suffrage.

October 15, 1948 July 14, 1917 February 15, November 8,1921 1910 The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA. Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first July 20,Bryan 1942 Owenwoman Ruth is the first womanthe to Ruth Bryan African-American to receive Pulitzer Prize for named Library of represent the U.S.Poetry, as a foreign minister represent the Althea Gibson is U.S. the first African American Congress’s in when appointed as envoy to when she she is isConsultant appointed asPoetry envoy(later woman player to win a Wimbledon title in called Poet Laureate) in 1985.

Denmark.

Denmark. women’s tennis singles.

April 13, 1933 April 13, 1933 President’s Commission on the Status of May 1, 1950 Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 Women is exchange established to examine of12-block a stock (American Stock A Mother’s Day march ofSunday Marian Anderson sings an Easter American woman to win the World Figure Marian Anderson sings an Easter Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). “welfare mothers” is held in Washington, concert for more than 75,000 Lincoln Skating championship. concert for more than 75,000 atfor Lincoln Women’s International Leagueat Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 D.C., led by Coretta Scott King Memorial.

Memorial.

February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December accompanied by1961 Ethel Kennedy.

April 9, 1939 Prize.

April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Cheek, May 12, 1968 Judith Rodin is named president ofU.S. Univ.

November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Opening of the National Museum of Opening of the National Museum of of Pennsylvania, the first woman toinhead woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet is issued Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Lynn Genesko, aTubman, swimmer, receives the Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Women Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle an Ivy League institution. during Challenger flight.

Washington, DC. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig) ordained first athletic scholarship awarded tomother a as the first museum devoted women the first museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American 8 October 11, 1984 the women Episcopal December 1993 woman of Miami). artists. artists.

February 1,17, 1978 and first third(University American woman topriests. fly into space.

May 21, 1973 April 7, April 7, 1987 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984

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