The Bella Bulletin Newsletter: July 2019 Edition

The Bella Bulletin JULY 2019

Happy birthday to…

Congresswoman, Bella Abzug

This month’s

Feminist Five

More Than Enough Elaine Welteroth

Queenie Candice Carty-Williams

Well-Read Black Girl Glory Edim

We’re Going to Need More Wine Gabrielle Union

The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish

Op-Ed on, “The Harlem Renaissance Women” Content Creator, Sofia Baluyut highlights some of the iconic women of the Harlem Renaissance and how they used their platform to support the LGBTQ+ community.

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This Month in Women’s History ……....……….3 An Article from the NYCDL…………….…….……4 activism Through Art…………….…….....…...….6 Headlines of the Month…………………..…..……7 Feminist Five……...……………………….…........…8 Happy Birthday To……………………………...……10 Looking For Enrichment Opportunities…..…11 The Bella Bulletin Staff…..…………..…..…......13 BALI STAFF & Board of Directors……….……....14

Women’s History of the month:

July

The Seneca Falls Convention, the country’s first women’s rights convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York Women’s Rights Movement.

July 19-20, 1848

Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall to present the Vice President with the “Declaration of the Rights of Women” written by Matilda Joselyn Gage.

July 4, 1876

Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

July 2, 1937

16 women from the National Women’s Party were arrested while picketing the White House demanding universal women’s suffrage; they were charged with obstructing traffic.

July 14, 1917

The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA. July 20, 1942

Althea Gibson is the first African American woman player to win a Wimbledon title in women’s tennis singles.

July 6, 1957

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act; Title VII prohibits sex discrimination in employment.

July 2, 1964

“Philadelphia Eleven” deacons (Merrill Bittner, Alla Bozarth-Campbell, Alison Cheek, Emily Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Moorefield, Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Swanson, and Nancy Wittig) ordained as the first women Episcopal priests.

July 29, 1974

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An Article From the New York Debate League on this year’s, Bella Abzug Leadership Institute

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My Name ​, published journals her eventual in the art world, Ericka responded RankineHart, was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963, and what led her towho painting.

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Booker’s murder and discourse around her relationship with Diego Riveraof and Cancer Journals, and a collection hertraveled essays She isfamily now a poet, author, essayist, professor, and and circumstance continued to abortion, and shares someTheir of the ways in to support his artistic career. relationship inmore. ​Sister Outsider. ​ A lthough some of these Rankine ​has been awarded with fellowships influence her perspective.

Not growing up which cis people are complicit in and can was including a yearlong divorce from fraught, the Foundation, the Guggenheim works are​MacArthur technically prose, Lorde’s poetic followed by their remarriage, and upper class, s ​ he says​ , means that she is take action against transphobia.

I would Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, leanings come through in the richnessmany and One such person was Gladys Bentley!

Her extramarital affairs for both (Frida engaged the Academy of American Poets, and the Lannan also like to ​thisand ​video, which speaks “from a ofdifferent class than most of myin honesty hershare language emotion. popularity in. both Newmen York took off entitled once she​Citizen began Foundation​ One of her works ​, a affairs with and women). about material ways folks can In the the early morning of Junethat 28th, 1969,club. the colleagues I'm sensitized toHouse issues of performing at[....] the book of poetry and gay-friendly poetic essays,Clam is “​the only poetry Lorde was integral toDepartment discussions ofraided feminism support the Black trans community, as New York Police There, performed in masculine clothing, race and difference.” book​ ” Bentley to be areflected New York bestseller in the the Her art often theTimes painful relationships and womanism in the 1960s-1980s, particularly opposed tocategory,” performative hope and allyship. singing risque songs (as well as onesmany that critiqued Stonewall Inn, barand known serve queer nonfiction won accolades she hadmale with her aown body andto with Diego.

In abusive behavior).

As written in a r ​ ecent ​New the ways she celebrated Black and queer including the N ​ ational Book Critics Circle Award in Iin urge you to click these links, sit with these patrons.

In ​The particular, the Mafia-run bar her painting Broken Column ​ , she depicts York Times obituary​ , brought “In her top hatflaws and tuxedo, womanhood, and the in the Poetry. ideas, and consider ways ,​ ashe you can was special because itthe provided place for physical pain; ​H enry Ford Hospital paints Bentley beltedin gender-bending original blues white feminist movement to light.

In her essay support LGBTQ+ folks, particularly those of folks her who might have outFollowing ofsongs, other about experience of been miscarriage. numbers lewd parodies ofleft ​Cand itizen, Rankine apopular narrative that “​Within Age, Race, Class, Sex:creates Women Redefining color, inspaces your everyday life. her divorce with Diego, she painted ​Self Portrait eventually becoming Harlem royalty.

When not queer in New York City.

Stonewall illustrates her experiences acollection Black woman in a Difference​ ,” published inbeing thedazzling ​Sister accompanying herself with a piano, the with Cropped Hair ,​ where where she represents an racist American context.

The drag topics range, starting provided a place queens, trans Outsider​,built ​Lordesinger critiques the waysthrough that white mightily often swept the androgynous version of herself in reaction to with the everyday ways that she is faced with A place to start: if you have the means, folks, ignore and the young, lower-class, and/or women experience of audience, flirting withmultifaceted women in ​m the crowd and oppression, and the ways those icroaggressions her difficult relationship. support the lyrics ​M arsha P. Johnson project​ , and homeless queer people could go.

This all women and thus become racist and soliciting dirty from them as she sang.”

Bentley can take a toll. In one instance, she talks about research donate towas other inbyyour incident atcar preceded the eventually toured around and performed in different exclusionary inStonewall their toplaces feminism: “By sitting in most aand with aapproach colleague: “he tells his Perhaps importantly, however, heryou work night clubs in Harlem and across the country. community that are supporting Black trans raids and closings of other queer bars dean is making him hire a person of color when and large within the women’s movement today, was also the deeply political.

Frida wasshe mixed-race, Though Kruger supported herself as an Towards end of herwriters career, regularly there are so many great out there [...] raid you women.

Remember, during Pride month, throughout the city, but this police white women focus upon their oppression as and made sure to particularly represent performed at oneis of the first openly lesbian bars artist and educator for some after her fear the night being locked intime and coded onina that Pride was a riot that protested police women and ignore differences of race, sexual ended up sparking a riot/uprising amongst indigenous culture in time her art.

This her interest in California, Mona’s 440 Club.to During cellular level and want function as aprime, power job at Conde Nast, her art really took off preference, class, and age.

There is a pretense brutality and unfair treatment of LGBTQ+ patrons of the bar and bystanders who and centering ofoften indigenous culture made her a Bentley was one of makes the most famous Black wash.”

Rankine use of the pronoun to a homogeneity of experience covered by the were tired ofpoetry, the police interference.

For six people and and was a entertainers out ofcommunity, Harlem, and was open inoften her part of in theher Mexicanidad movement.

She “you” immediately implicating the word s ​ isterhood that does not in fact exist.”

Inin masculinity and attraction to women. days, in thousands people rioted movement led by trans women color. reader her stories.

Theof word allowsof you to identify

after around Village 1980. She began collecting Greenwich inalso protest women sang about affirming orof expressed withsame it inOther ways thatLorde canalso be personally (I’m the essay, critiques theunfair ways painted herself wearing Tehuana traditional found black-and-white imagery, and printed treatment of LGBTQ+ people. queerness in their art during this time.

O ​ ne example not the only one who experiences this!) or can that folks with tomarginalized dress, which calls an indigenousidentities, Zapotec ischallenge Bessiecommentary Jackson (Lucille Bogan)’s 1935 song called social atop them in blocky you to look at the ways you might culture where women key societal particularly Black, queer,are andgiven women-identified “​Many B.D. Woman’s Blues​ .” ​“B.D.” meant “bulldyker” or contribute to the oppression she describes. were involved in the uprising, but two lettering.

Her background as a graphic roles.are Herexpected iconic painting ​The Two Fridas can be folk, white/privileged “bulldagger,” and wastoa educate derogatory term for butch peopleabout in particular out.

First, there interpreted, inatheir part, as astood discussion of her mixed people struggles and lead oppressions. designer magazine women.

Inforthis song, Rankine also often brings thehelped physical body her into to her heritage; she is shown holding hands with was Marsha P. Johnson, an activist, Black She writes that such a dynamic allows Jackson sang, ​“Comin' this attention-grabbing, pithy style; the poetry: the way that aracist exchanges create pain herself, where one version of herself isand in “oppressors maintain position time, B.D. women drag queen, and sex who grew up in not only in the[to] mind but also intheir the body.

She stark speaks black, white, andthey redworker colors appear European dress, and theto other in traditional ain't going to need no for of sighing and of aching, and the ways that these evade responsibility their own actions.”

New Jersey and moved New York City can as and clear, while her mbiguous pronoun men” and “They gotadvocated a ​ayou Tehuana wear.

She also h ​ onored a connection be daily experiences once understand the racist Lorde ultimately for a recognition a teen. There was also Sylvia Rivera, a Latinx head like a sweet angel use directly engages the reader.

(Where context that your was born from.

She with nature through paintings like and and acceptance ofexperience the difference of​Roots peoples’ activist, drag queen, and sex worker who and they walk just like“the aMonkey writes in particular, world is wrong.

You can’t Self Portrait with ​ .

Frida also held might ​you rather stand, for instance, in the experience, than a rejection (othering) or was in the Bronx. were key natural man.”

She put theborn past behind you. [...] It’sBoth turned your flesh Communist beliefs throughout her lifetime, ignoring of them. phrasing gaze hits“every the day sideas of my acknowledges this and figures in“your the Stonewall uprising, well as into its own cupboard” your mouth attending protests, supporting workers, and lesbian/queer identity face?”)

Kruger also strove to make her art opens resistance; and receives the kiss theand world offers, which later Johnson Rivera were critiquing thecandidly capitalistic U.S. these ​Self-portrait on Lorde’s lives onyou through ideas and and seals speaks youlegacy shut are group feeling sick to Gay your accessible by though literally placing it in public involved in the activist the the Borderline Between Mexico and the United about it, acknowledging her writings, as in some organizations. stomach aboutas thewell beginning of the feeling that was Liberation Front (GLF).

Together, they also spaces: art has been on ​buses​ , the ​sides States isher one such painting where her love of an the relationship born​Afrom understanding.”

The udre Lorde Project​ , for example, is named independent, pre-colonial Mexico is clearly founded the Street Transvestite Action between womanhood of buildings​ , ​skate and more.organizing after her, and worksparks​ as a,community contrasted withspecific her negative experiences of the and masculinity and the in reality queer She also brings people and events into play.

Revolutionaries (STAR) 1970,of“Lesbian, which center based in Brooklyn that serves relationships between women.

G ​ ertrude 'Ma' Rainey United States.

Rankine dedicates one of her sections to tennis advocated for young transgender people, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Transinpieces and Gender One ofSerena her an also spoke of amost lesbianfamous identity “​Prove it onNon me player Williams, describing the was ways that and rented out a tenement at 213 East Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) People of Color blues​ .” In bothwoman admits and herself image of it, a she white splitdistances in half, one Williams faced racism and sexism from umpires, Second Street where theyandoffered a Rankine Communities.” from queer identity and behavior.

She ​“place Went fellow players, coverage, dailysays, life. half where thenews colors are inverted, with the out last nightyouth with atocrowd ofand my eat. friends/They for trans stay Rivera writes about Hurricane Katrina, and names Black This article is a quick overview, so here are words “ ​ your body is a battleground.”

This must've been women, 'cause I don't like no men;” victims of police violence like Mark Duggan and would go on to fight for gay rights more starting learn and honor “It's true I wear a places collara piece andtoalink tie” andthe “Talkeveryday to the was Kruger’s art for 1989 Rodney King, drawing clear between legislationand andSylvia’s inclusionstories, within the LGBTQ+ Marsha well as gals just like any but then saysas“Cause they interactions andold theman” larger manifestations of racism Women’s March on Washington, and it community.

Both struggled at the margins say I do individual it, ain't nobody caught me/ Sure got to LGBTQ+ history in through andgeneral: state-sanctioned violence. reflects sentiments while evenit of the pro-choice “Gay” Liberation movements, prove onher me.”

Of though queer women were able however, because they didover not fit calling ciscourse, women to action their ● NYC Trans Oral History Project: torespectability find somework artistic freedom and success during the Rankine’s in C ​ itizen thus shows a way that politics in many ways.

They reproductive rights.

Of course, there is so much more to learn and http://oralhistory.nypl.org/neighbor Harlem Renaissance, it and wasgender not can all beeasy. conversations about class, race held were not middle white, and did honor about Frida Kahlo.folks It not isare important she Upper/middle class Black and religiousthat leaders through hoods/trans-history art. Her perspectives personal, political, inhabit a binary gender identity, and so isnot not whitewashed and that the legacy of her would sometimes ask them to appeal to and ●intense in a was way published that she isasable to as convey @lgbt_history: Though her work many fifty beliefs live on just as much as her image. were pushed aside by c ​ isgender​ , white, respectability politics, treating queerness as though through https://www.instagram.com/lgbt_hi the particular beauty and skill in her poetry. years ago, words and stilla itThough were synonymous predatory behavior,asand sheLorde’s would be experience claimed middle-class gay with andlater lesbian members of ring true to this day and offer much to learn story police would for raiddifferent bars where queer movements, artists were figurehead feminist their community. from.

Although this isEven just aStonewall small sampling of ● was Two​more ​Overviews​ of Bentley, known to perform. during the there to her work and her life than her voice and thought, and it is difficult if not McCarthy era, published a 1952 article entitled “I am P. Johnson can ●be Marsha revealed in these​Obituary one-dimensional SoWoman now, consider that the work rights they fought areductionist Again” where she she underwent to Rivera distill into athinking single ● Sylvia ​telling the story of understandings of her.her To said continue hormone therapy and renounced all her previous for are not yet fully won.

“Pride” has been takeaway, one of Lorde’s important messages is about Frida and and hertrans legacy, there is an Stonewall vs gay activism queerness. commodified and used to pretend that all to recognize the complexity and totality of exhibition of artwork ​at theabout Brooklyn ● A ​profile​ of Sylvia that her being said, Rivera learning these LGBTQ+Butrights won, but consider that differences withinare others’ experience.

(In other Museum running from February 8–May 12, people still gives me hope. Examining history shows words, she is recognizing what would later be there is still a long way to go in terms of 2019, and T ​ een Vogue and T ​ he Independent that although some folks would like to pretend that termed “intersectionality” by scholar Kimberlé ensuring that queer folks are physically, offer articles can serve as startingispoints to queerness and that acceptance of queerness new, it's Crenshaw.)

After all, asbetween Lorde inand her really not.the Queer behavior and recognized identity, although discuss contrast Frida’s image emotionally, and culturally safe perhaps labeled differently, have always existed.

1982 speech earning From the ‘60s​ ,” “There is being commodified and the actual politics she supported in“​Lall spaces.

Consider that police -Foremothers and great artists like Gladys Bentley, no such thing as a single-issue struggle because stood for.

An article in the ​Paris to readmarginalized about Rankine still profile and killReview folks with Bessie Jackson, Ma Rainey, and moreown prove that you we do not live single-issue lives.” and C ​ itizen i ​ n her words: identities, especially Blackinto people.

Consider, can bring your full identity art for reasons https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6905/cl too, that trans and women of color--the political, personal, even playful.

And that same queer

people we must thank for leading the

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Headlines of the Month Supreme Court Ruling Allows Trump Start Representative Ocasio-Cortez and to Senator Border Construction MarkeyWall Introduce Green New Deal

Puerto GovernorCourt Rico Roselló Resigns Kenya Rico Postpones Decision on After Weeks of Protesting Decriminalizing Gay Sex

On Monday night, June 17th, president Trump On July 26, in ​Trump v. Sierra Club​, the United States posted on his twitter feed that Immigration and Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be conducting will access ​$2.5inbillion to start plans and On March 15thtoraids during prayers, two majorhave deportation 10Friday major cities, including construction on a southern border wall.

The court Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tuesday, April 2nd, L ​ ori Lightfoot made history On Friday, May 25, United Kingdom Prime New York, inSanChristchurch, Francisco, and Chicago.

The faced raids mosques New Zealand case came to the light when two advocacy groups Senator Edward J Markey have recently specifically targeted undocumented immigrants who by becoming first female, gay, and Black mass shootings​ .

Shooter Brenton Tarrant Minister ​Theresa May resigned after first yet were already requested to (Sierra goresolution, into deportation supported by the A.C.L.U Club and the introduced a congressional Called Mayor of Chicago.

Lightfoot was a first-time targeted Masjid Al Noor, killing 42 worshippers, another attempt at compromising on a proceedings and who have already been in court.

Southern Border Communities Coalition) sued the the ​Green Deal aimed at limiting candidate in New a race of long-time established and then moved on to Linwood Masjid, killing 7.

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Facebook andLightfoot left a due 74-page and greenhouse emission big break for to theanti-immigrant factfrom that allthe of Congress can “work outgas a solution.”

On June 12, Ecuador’s highest court ​legalized The people of Puerto Rico have been demanding the same-sex marriage in a 5-4 vote. Marriage between resignation of Governor Rico Roselló ​after offensive same-sex couples has been legal in the country since Anti-leftist Brazilian President JairtheBolsonaro and inappropriate messages between governor A group of armed individuals asmore the 2008.

However, opposite-sex couplesknown have had This Friday, February 22nd, Kenya’s high court was This year, 8 ​ states have introduced varying and his administration have released plans to and several of his cabinet members were leaked on United Constitutional Border Ops legal privileges sinceon the​dPatriots law was passed over a. scheduled to rule ecriminalizing gay sex​ July 13th.

The scandal, known as “Chatgate”, set off take w ​ omen’s and LGBTQ history out of school restrictions on abortion​ .

These new laws detained 300 asylum-seeking migrants near decade ago.

But now, after many lawsuits made by However, theofjudges have claimed that time an eruption pent-up anger themore governor textbooks​ . These plans haveagainst been one of many have gained lots ofthe attention this past Sunland Park, New Mexico in mid-April.

This two couples, Efraín Soria and Javier Benalcázar and is needed to review evidence, and as a result, and a few other government officials for corruption moves made by President Bolsonaro to group of individuals are all independent from Rubén Salazar and​pof Carlos Verdesoto, court’s the vote has been ostponed until May​the . new This vote month as a result the most recent and mismanagement.

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Alabama scandal, a number of officers were charged with Brazil.

In who addition to proposing changes therefore did face not have the discrimination legal jurisdiction to same privileges as opposite-sex ones.the Ecuador is now Kenyans, immense on the fraud and Governor money laundering.

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Thisattempt month, New Jersey politicians passed a law country will be adding ​more than 1,000 new courts federal government.

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In 2018, a report ranked Pakistan 148 out of about one ofover their laws goes to the are both armed and untrained.

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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 (2018), month ​is her Obama’s Women’s latest book, Becoming month was made(her famous birthday for month) her bestselling we’ll honor poetryisher and lifeprose and collection, work.

Elaine Welteroth an American journalist, editor and Milk New we’ve got short stories! autobiographical memoir. The book sold approximately 725,000 and Honey. This spent copies over ina year on York Times Bestseller list.

York TimesThe best New selling author.

She is widely known for second the United States on the first day, making it the For Colored Girls Whocreator Have Considered Suicide whenBulletin the Rainbow is Enuf is -​Mayannah Beauvoir, Content for the Bella best-She selling debut books soldof in 2018. book reached comes from a of Sikhall family inchief Punjab, India, andThe to becoming the editor Vogue, only the second Ntozake Shange’s first piece.

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Canada with her parents when she was four years old.

She started 1.4 million copies in the first week, and in about two 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.

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This When her parents separated, she was sent to live in Stamps, Arkansas.

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Her second book, The Sun and Her Flowers was published in October 2017, and explores themes of readers to become politically engaged.

Under her leadership, Teen Vogue produced its first Youtube channel, suffering, she decided to partake on this trail, alone, with zero hiking worked as a journalist in Ghana.

writing style islead very utilizing African American vernacular the experiences that made her who she is.

She shares ofhas hera large lifeand as well as experience. thehave stories of her life that tounique, her downward spiral andhighlights theKaur onesalso that motivated her to keep loss, traumaWild andshows revolution.

Today, Kaur performs her poetry across thethe world. social Angelou’s work is held She inthat high esteem because of groundbreaking nature of herbecame writing. shifted the way going on her journey. had many spiritual awakenings onaudience. the journey as also well asmemoir physical and mental challenges.

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betteryou fortoit know and run as youthan canthat” in the―direction happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to

heal.”-Cheryl Strayed

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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, firstrelated Black First Ladyand of Black the United

Black feminist.

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She is who married than on Enough: space for you to are (no was written in 1969 by writer and She was More born Paulette LindaClaiming Williams in October of 1948 in Barack Trenton, Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Michelle grew up on the South New Jersey. She attended a white elementary school ate the Brown poet Maya Angelou. This is the first book in an seven part volume Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Board of Education court decision, where she was bullied and 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, racist attacks. age she Princeton developed an of

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The explored in this work abuse, love, 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.

Shange school classrooms and college classes. heartbreak. enough.died in her sleep in October of 2018 at 70 years old.

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American Museum of Natural History​ various teen programs run through the American Museum of Black Natural Girls Code Historyoffers programming and events in coding for African American girls.

Black Girls Code​ offers and eventsand in coding for African American girls.

Brotherhood/Sister Sol programming offers afterschool summer programming in relationshipbuilding, self/global awareness, social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of Brotherhood/Sister Sol​ offers afterschool and summer programing in relationship-building, self/global their programs are gender-specific. awareness, social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of their programs are gender-specific.

ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

ChickTech​ offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

Curious Jane offers classes and summer programming in science, theatre, arts and crafts, and more for girls.

Columbia University​ pre-college programs for high school students run through Columbia University.

DigitalCurious Girl, Inc. at high to provideinprogramming andand offers Jane​ works offers classes and schools summer programming science, theatre, in artsSTEM and crafts, moretech for workshops for the community. girls.

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

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

Northeast Regional Alliance (NERA) MedPrep Program a preparatory program for students between junior high and college who wish to pursue careers in the medical field. The NERA MedPrep program has partnerships with five medical institutions including the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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

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.

Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer after‑school programming in physical activity and healthy living.

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

Summer Health Professions Education Program a free summer enrichment program for college students pursuing health professions.

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

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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