WAU Columbia Journal for March, 2021 - Student Publication

WASHINGTON ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY

Columbia Columbia Journal Journal

Kathrin Jansen

MARCH 2021

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NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED We celebrate and look over herstory's unforgettable trailblazers.

COVID CONTINUUM

~With Max Orlanne Pierre and Anna Karla Carreño

Attending University online was definitely not on our list of expected experiences for our college days, but here are some reads to make the best of it. ~With Anna Karla Carreño

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WASHING TON Travel and tourism in DC are especially popular, but as busy schedules and social distancing are a normality in our lives, the Journal presents a view of the Capital, right from our pages.

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CALENDAR Keeping up with the times is hard enough as it feels like both 100 years or only 3 seconds have passed us by since everything began.

~With Jenevieve Lettsome

From the Editor My dear readers, I am beyond blessed, as are we all, to have such powerful women at our school who are above and beyond the measure of greatness, leading us and teaching us. I thank women like Dr. K, who with incredible grit, has and continues to aid in leading our school, ensuring that our education prepares us for the world ahead of us. For women like Dr. Hemmings, Dr. Villanueva, Dr. Hinds, Dr. Bradford, and Dr. Conner who persevere in their field, having the courage to progress forward. For heroine educators such as Professor McKenzie, Professor Murmu, Professor Jitta, Professor Kemi, and countless of other female role models we are privileged to learn from during our educational journey at WAU. Thank you to these women.

For this issue, my message is thus: Be unapologetically female Our strength comes from within Lift each other up, because not many others will Focus on the positive.

It is beautiful to be a woman Love your sisters Use your voice, your pen, and your platform to empower -Jenna

"She walked so that I could run."

Anna Karla Carreño

This past year has been one of difficult truths, painful growth and new discoveries.

As a society, the world was forced to confront our racial and gendered prejudices.

The Black Lives Matter movement resurged with a vengeance, as did #TimesUp and Stop Asian Hate- and women were at the forefront of each of these movements. 2020 was definitely the year of change, and women were the pioneers of that change.

All over the world, women made their voices heard, from politics, to medicine, to climate change and so much more. All over the world, women were trendsetters who broke glass ceiling after glass ceiling, not only for themselves, but for other communities.

It was women like Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who mobilized voters in marginalized communities all over the United States in November. It was women like Kathrin Jansen (feat. on cover) who made medical history with the creation of the Pfizer vaccine, that was formulated to fight the world’s biggest pandemic since 1918. It was women like Greta Thunberg who continued to protest against climate change, even if it was from home.

It was women like America Ferrera and Oprah Winfrey who made waves in Hollywood, directing and producing projects by women of color, for women of color. It was women like Meghan Markle, who spoke out against the pain of the British monarchy’s racism, that allowed other women of color to speak out against institutionalized racism as a whole. It was women like Kamala Harris, the first Black and Asian female Vice President of the United States, who paved the way for other to see themselves in politics.

So, as a woman, what are you going to do this year? It doesn’t have to be groundbreaking or revolutionary- it can be as simple as volunteering, tutoring or existing as a marginalized person in a maledominated space. But, no matter what you do, remember that you are doing it as a woman, so that other women and girls can walk behind you a little easier.

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THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN

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SPOT NO.7 Vietnam Veteran Memorial On November 11, 1982, ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, the infamous memorial was erected in DC and left the United States in quiet shock and wonder. Twenty-one year old Ohio native Maya Lin had beat out over 1000 other architects in the design competition with what many at first would regard as a rather ambiguous design, but later would be seen as controversial.

The V-shaped lines of polished black gabbros walls literally cut into the earth with the names of 85,000 service men was met with both awe and critique. Some veterans negatively responded with comments such as “‘the black gash of shame’, a ‘degrading ditch,’ a ‘tombstone,’ a ‘slap in the face,’ and a ‘wailing wall for draft dodgers and New Lefters of the future,’”.

In her designs, Lin stated: “I wanted to create a memorial that everyone would be able to respond to, regardless of whether one thought our country should or should not have participated in the war”.

Lin prefers to call herself a designer rather than an architect, as she sees her goal is to create things that balance between nature and its meaning to the human race.

Sources: https://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-4/corbin/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin

Max Orlanne Pierre

Someone wise once said, "You can't call yourself a queen if your throne is made up of girls you stepped on to get up there."

Truer words have never been spoken. So stay awhile, and join us as we delve into the past, watching the crowns pass between generations, each time getting a little brighter.

Harriet Tubman (c. 1820 - March 10, 1913) 1849 - 1860 Tubman escaped slavery and risked her life to make an estimated 13 trips back into the South in order to lead some 70 enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad.

Jane Addams (Sep. 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935) 1919 - 1935 Addams rejected marriage and motherhood in favor of a lifetime commitment to social reform.

She also founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, serving as president from 1919 until her death in 1935.

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Claudia Jones (Feb. 21, 2915 - Dec. 24, 1964) 1949 Jones published her article “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman” which emphasized the triple oppression of race, class, and gender. Her article laid the groundwork for what Kimberle Crenshaw would later name intersectionality.

Intersectionality is defined as ‘the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.’

Claudette Colvin (Sep. 5, 1939 - Present) March 2, 1955 Nine months prior to Rosa Parks, Colvin was too tired to give up her seat on the bus home from high school and refused to move for a white passenger. Many people recognize that her actions were the same of Rosa Parks but the people of that time did not like her image (she was an unmarried pregnant teenager) and deemed her as the

wrong face for the movement. Despite this, Colvin later became one of the four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that the Montgomery segregated bus system was unconstitutional.

Mamie Till-Bradley (Nov. 23, 1921 - Jan. 07, 2003) 1955 After her son, Emmett Till, was brutally murdered on August 28, 1955, Till-Bradley bravely demanded that her son have an open casket funeral. Images of Till rocked the world and aided in igniting the civil rights movement. Even after receiving numerous death threats, Mamie Till-Bradley traveled on tour to speak about Emmett’s death and raise awareness.

Coretta Scott King (Apr. 27, 1927 - Jan. 30, 2006) 1950s - 1970s Working together with her husband, Coretta took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, journeyed to Ghana to mark that nation's independence in 1957, traveled to India on

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a pilgrimage in 1959, and worked to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act. After her husband’s assassination on April 4, 1968, Coretta founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and served as the center's president and the Chief Executive Officer.

Rep. Barbara Jordan (Feb. 21, 1936 - Jan. 17, 1996)

1966 - 1976

After running twice unsuccessfully in 1962 and 1964, Marsha P. Johnson (Aug. 24, 1945 - July 6, Jordan won the 1992) and 1966 race for a Sylvia Rae Rivera (July 2, 1951 - Feb. 19, newly created 2002) Texas State Senate district and became the first African-American state senator since 1960s - 1970s 1883 and the first Black woman to serve in that body. In 1972, after service as the first Johnson is said to Black woman in the Texas state senate, she have resisted ran for Congress as the Democratic arrest and thrown nominee for Houston’s 18th District. She the first bottle (or won and became the first Black woman brick or stone) at from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. police during the House of Representatives. In 1976, she was 1969 Stonewall asked to deliver the keynote address at the Riots, which 1976 Democratic National Convention and sparked the marked another first for Black women. national LGBTQ movement.

Dr. Jane Cooke Wright (Nov. 20, 1919 - Feb. Rivera, a civil 19, 2013) rights activist, 1964 - 1971 feminist and pacifist founded the Gay Liberation Front In 1964, Wright and the Gay Activists Alliance, and was also was the only a participant in the Stonewall Riots. woman among Together, in the early 1970s, Johnson and seven physicians Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite who helped to Action Revolutionaries (STAR), working with found the runaway or homeless transgender and drag American Society of Clinical Oncology. In queen women of color.

1967, Wright was appointed associate dean and head of the Cancer Chemotherapy Department at New York Medical College

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becoming the highest ranked African American physician at a prominent medical college at the time. Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Wright served the President’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke from 1964 to 1965 and on the National Cancer Advisory Board (aka the National Cancer Advisory Council) from 1966 to 1970.

Malala Yousafzai (July 12, 1997 - Present) 2012 At 15, Malala publicly spoke out on women’s rights to education and as a result, a gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head. Yousafzai moved to the UK where she became a very known presence and, at 17, became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.

Naomi Osaka (October 16, 1997- Present)

one ranking in women’s singles in tennis, and has won four Grand Slam titles. She is also the current reigning champion of the women’s US Open and the Australian Open.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (October 13, 1989- Present) 2018Ocasio-Cortez, otherwise known as “AOC”, is the current U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th Congressional District. In 2018, she became the youngest woman to ever be elected to Congress at the age of 29. She made headlines when spearheading the “Green New Deal”, a new policy that calls for immediate action to be taken against climate change. She continues to serve not only her congressional district, but minority communities all over the country.

Greta Thunberg (January 3, 2003- Present)

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2019-

Osaka is an American professional tennis player of Haitian and Japanese descent,

Thunberg is a teenage Swedish environmental activist who is internationally known for

who is currently ranked first in the world.

She is the first Asian to hold the number

protesting climate change every Friday. On September 20, 2019, she led the biggest

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climate change strike in world history, with an estimated 4 million people protesting all over the world. She has spoken at the United Nations, and traveled all over the world to talk about climate change with world leaders.

Chloé Zhao (March 31, 1982- Present) 2020 Zhao is a Chinese filmmaker who creates and directs primarily independent films. In 2020, Zhao wrote, produced and directed the independent film Nomadland, which was released in the United States to widespread critical acclaim. She became the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated for and win a Golden Globe for Best Director. Zhao was also nominated for Best Director in the Academy Awards, making her the sixth woman to ever be nominated, and the first of Asian descent.

Deb Haaland (December 2, 1960- Present) 2021Debra Anne Haaland is a Native American politician currently serving as the United States Secretary of the Interior. She first served as New Mexico’s Representative in the House of Representatives in 2018, and was elected New Mexico’s Lieutenant Governor in 2018. She is the first Native American woman to ever lead a cabinet agency in the United States government.

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~Contributors~ "Jenna" Jenevieve Lettsome......Editor Max Orlanne Pierre......Interning Columnist Anna Karla Carreño..........Copy Editor Dr. Jarilyn Conner........Faculty Advisor Dr. Thomas Lutrell....Advisory Council

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