Previously published in VICE. Read the whole story here.
VICE: Migrant Workers are Bearing the Brunt of New Zealand’s Hardline Coronavirus Approach
Previously published in VICE. Read the whole story here.
QUARTZ: Women in America’s largest transit system are underground—and under attack
Read here.
BKLYNER: Corner Eyesore Racks up Nearly $100,000 in Fines and Brings Rats to Newkirk Plaza
Published in BKLYNER: Read here.
NYC News Service: Going with the Flow: How Menstruators Marathon
Published in the NYC News Service: Read here.
In Memory of Thea Hunter: Beloved New Yorker, Scholar, and Adjunct
“To be a perennial adjunct professor is to hear the constant tone of higher education’s death knell. The story is well known—the long hours, the heavy workload, the insufficient pay—as academia relies on adjunct professors, non-tenured faculty members, who are often paid pennies on the dollar to do the same work required of their tenured colleagues,” Adam Harris writes in The Atlantic, eulogizing Thea Hunter. [continue reading]
Remembering New Zealand: How a shooting 9,109 miles away hit home for CCNY students
It is often in the most persecuted groups that one finds fortitude in identity, empathy, and wisdom. As four Muslim women sat across from each other, remembering the lives and legacies of their 50 brothers and sisters killed in New Zealand, they explored identity, embodied empathy, and spoke wisdom. [continue reading]
Women and Tables: How CCNY Women are Claiming Their Seat and Pulling Up Chairs
In perusing the following words, sentences, and paragraphs, it is beneficial to know the stage which women stand and perform on today - a stage where women earn more than 57% of undergraduate degrees and 59% of all master’s degrees, but make up 4.8% of Fortune 500 company CEOs, according to the Center for American Progress; [continue reading]
2 Weeks, 17 Buildings, and 5 Demands
In a time where the racial composition of Harlem was grossly underrepresented at CCNY, the 1969 protests served as a turning point for the university. Due to the activists’ tenacity and boldness in both the demonstrations and negotiations, they pushed CCNY and CUNY to open their doors to thousands of Black and Hispanic students, who earlier would not have qualified for admission. [continue reading]
Jannatul Ferdous Brishty: Fencer, Hijabi, Inspiration
Clothed in a light blue hijab complementing her patterned dress and eye-catching brooch, Jannatul Ferdous Brishty recalled the first time she decided to take the religious head covering. “When you first take hijab you do kinda think of things like ‘Will I take hijab? Will it stop me from doing a lot of things?’ I have had those thoughts,” she recounted. [continue reading]