The Bella Bulletin DECEMBER 2020
BLACK WOMEN SAVED THE ELECTION Co-Editor, Zoe Donovan, writes about the monumental women who helped us take back the White House.
Kamala Harris, Vice President-elect
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their
Wilma toAbam-DePass, highlights original landsCo-Editor, east of the Mississippi Indian Territory, which is now part how Harris madeJoy history, being first of of Oklahoma.Kamala Two hundred years later, Harjo returns to her the family’s many thingswiththat have been long overdue, one lands and opens a dialogue history. being the new Vice President of the United States. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living
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Table of Contents Black women who helped us win the Election.3 Thank you!..............................………………….……5 Unpacking White Privilege………………….……6 Feminist Five!...................…….…….…………...….7 Kamala Harris....................…….…….…………...….9 Happy birthday to…………….…………..…...….. .10 Women’s History of the Month.……..…...….. .11 New Virtual After School Program.…………...12 SafeBae……………..………………………….....….. .13 Stay Insta-Informed……..…......................….. .14 Enrichment Opportunities…….……….............15 BALI Staff…………………………………….....….…17 BELLA BULLETIN STAFF ………………………….......18
Headline of the month: Black Women Who Helped Us Win The Election Nsé Ufot
Deborah Scott
30 days after being nominated by President Trump, Amy Coney Barrett was officially sworn-in as a Supreme Court Justice on October This past March,July officers Brett Hankinson, Myles On Wednesday, 29, Mexico’s Court 27th. Based on her judicial recordSupreme on gun rights Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly, barged into (SCJN) halted a Officer tremendous for Chief immigration Executive of The New and as well asmilestone her Georgia public Breonna Taylor’s house under a “no-knock abortion rights by voting against an injunction in Project (NGP) and Newand Georgia Project Action statements onshe abortion LGBTQ+ rights , it is warrant” as and her boyfriend, K enneth Veracruz. The AF), injunction, by her a judge in Fund that (NGP Nnomination sé approved Ufot, and team clear Barrett’s will shiftof the Walker , were sleeping and fired a barrage 32 Xalapa, Veracruz ordered the state’s congress to successfully registered almost 425,000 voters in nation’s highest court severely to theofmonth, right. Thea bullets that killed Taylor . is This remove 149, 150, and 154 the local Georgia articles this year. Ufot’s work trailblazing for backlash against Barrett’s nomination is Jefferson CountyThis grand decision jury only indicted one of penal code. would have the way that she utilizes technology (specifically two-fold: Americans are concerned about the three Many officers, Hankinson, and only decriminalizeed abortions within 12 charged weeks, the video game science, blockchain and how Barrett’s stance will in court him for endangering Taylor’s neighbors. None allowed for abortions dueplay to out health risks,cases and cryptocurrency, and charged building of the officers were forand the designing death of dealing with LGBTQ+ rights and abortion abolished the time limit on abortions for cases mobile apps) to empower voters and make Breonna Taylor. Inplan addition, involving rape. forCity removing theseleaked three (particularly inThe Fulton v. ofrecently Philadelphia ), voter education more accessible. Ufot states body-cam Brett Hankinson and articlespeople wasfootage originally introduced the and are reveals furious withby the women’s Trump that NGP’s outstanding success this year wastoa Myles Cosgrove r eturning to Taylor’s residence rights organizations National Commission administration for fast-tracking Barrett’s resultcommenting of their focus on expanding the and on evidence after Prevent and rather Eradicate Violence Women nomination thanpotential allowingagainst the American electorate, voter voter mobilization, the incident took place. Needless toforsay, folks (Conavim) and theeducation, National Institute Women people to let their vote for president influence and thethe impact of the (InMujeres) in 2016. Unfortunately, fourTaylor’s outand of across country areCOVID-19 furious outbreak that the justice to fill the place of the late Ruth five voted against upholding the injunction. the judges resurgence Black Lives Matter death occurred atinall,the and that now, Taylor is Bader Ginsburg, considering Republicans While this decision being denied justice.would have only affected the Movement. prevented former president, Barack Obama, state of Veracruz, activists hoped that it would set from replacingfor Justice the precedent otherScalia statesinto2016. do the same.
This October, Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis has reached higher stakes after a fatal shooting at Mother International Thetheday beforeFrancisca New York City publicBilingual schools Jena Faith, 43-year-old trans woman, just Academy inaKumba that resulted in the deaths were scheduled to open, the Council ofhas School made history in Steuben County , NY by filing Deborah Scott is the executive Director of theaa of six and children under (CSA) 14-years-old. Supervisors Administrators declared lawsuit against thevote county forhave the abuse she Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Directions “No Confidence” against Mayor Bill de Unfortunately, the shooters not been experienced in jail. Faith was arrested back in and and Unified Policies (STAND-UP )due , an Blasio Chancellor Richard Carranza to identified yet. The Anglophone Crisis in 2018 for allegedly buyingupa with meal counterfeit organization of leaders dedicated to their failure to community come awith plan for Cameroon first emerged in safe 2016 as money. While she was originally placed in a “alleviating regional schools in thepoverty ofand theencouraging COVID-19 pandemic. Anglophones inmidst Cameroon started to protest women’s facility, she empowerment was CSA abruptly moved Along the vote, is calling onto dea equity with through the of ofleaders their oppression atthe the hands the men’s facility she was misgendered, denied her Blasio and inclusion Carranza toofrelinquish of the and the community benefits.” Francophone government. Since control then, due to hormone replacement treatment, and sexually city's Department of Education for the STAND-UP’s manyviolent programs and initiatives the government’s suppression of these assaulted. Thethelawsuit Faith upon her remainder of pandemic andfiled to seek out the include leadership and empowerment training protests, tensions have continued to rise and release, however, hasNew now York led toState multiple reforms assistance offorthe education (particularly Black women andfighters, Black over 5,000 soldiers, separatist and dedicated to protecting trans inmates. As ayouth), result department. According to CSA leaders, school and civic education. In addition, STAND-UP has of these reforms, trans inmates in Steuben County civilians have tobeen killed. Not only has this officials want get school’s reopened as safely a voter engagement and education program will accessasto care, itwillalso be conflict resulted ingender-affirming immense violence, and have as quickly possible. known as STAND-UP & Vote!, which especially able to wear clothing that aligns with their gender, prevented almost one million children from focuses educating voters on and legallyon must be referred to by their correct attending school right now.registered names andatpronouns. elections all levels of government.
Helen Butler
Tamieka Atkins
Helen Butler is the Executive Director of the Georgia Coalition for the People’slong-awaited Agenda, an Information on President Trump’s advocacy tax-returns has finally been released by the New York Times. According to their report, organization with In a seismic shiftpresident in governmental leadership, Trump, the only in recent history to voternomination this After winning the Democratic Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, F iame Naomi not tax-returns, paid year empowerment, July, release Candacehis Valenzuela could now$750 makethe history Mata’afa has resigned from her government he won the presidential election and his first. justice, by becoming the first Blackcriminal Latina in Congress position against former the year in to office. In 10 ofher the pastofparty, 15 school years, Valenzuela isrun an educator, a member her education, and Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), in the however, didn’t taxes board, and he a mother two.any Her income campaign was environmental justiceofpay programs. The Coalition because he reported losing more money than next election. Fiame’s decision to resign and run supported by EMILY’s List, vEnd United, for the People’s Agenda’s oter Citizens empowerment he made. In addition, he is currently in a dispute against heris party is a rejection current the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Prime the program multifaceted and of includes voting with the IRS over the legitimacy of a $72.9 Congressional Blackvoter Caucus, the Malielegaoi’s Congressional Minister, Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele rights education, registration education, million tax refund. Unsurprisingly, Trump has Asian American Pcific American Caucus, andclaim was recently established laws that critics and resources to help voters evaluate referred to the report as “ fake news.” endorsed bySamoa’s the late constitution. John Lewis. undermine candidates.
With years of organizing, advocacy, and protesting under Days before a major UN biodiversity summit, 64 In the past few months, the Greek government her belt, Tamieka world leaders signed the Leader’s Pledge for has secretly expelled over 1,000 asylum seekers North Carolina’s “I Am Change” march began as , Executive Nature, among them AngelaAtkins Merkel, Justin sending them off in voter occasionally aby peaceful protest to encourage turnout Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, andDirector Boris Johnson. of malfunctioning life rafts. Despite when the many but uickly devolved into violence law The qdocument is a 10-point pledge that plans to ProGeorgia , leads outcries against Greece’s illegalandactions, the enforcement arrived in riotbygear gas pledge masks reverse biodiversity loss 2030. a vitalThe network of government has denied the allegations. Some and demanded that protestors move to the warns that humanity is facing a climate crisis organizations thatthat helped get the vote experts suggest this Georgia recent humanitarian and declares that it will reduce deforestation sidewalk. Despite the fact that the out thisis election. isprotestors a “civic violation a result of ProGeorgia other European countries and unsustainable fishing practices, eliminate had applied for the permit to be there, engagement table,” that connects aofficers large not providing enough assistance to Greece for environmentally harmful subsidies, and quickly resorted to the use of pepper spray, network of influx nonprofit, non-partisan taking in a high of Syrian refugees. Also, encourage sustainable food production harming the children, folks, and disabled rising tensions between Greece and Turkey have organizations that elderly work towards voter systems. The pledge also puts pressure on folks that were in the crowd. led people to believe that both nations are engagement, issue organizing, and economies countries that contribute the most greenhouse weaponizing Syrian refugees to place pressure on of scale. gasses like the US, Brazil, China, and Russia. one another.
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STACEY ABRAMS In 2018, Stacey Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history and making her the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the 2018 election by the Secretary of State’s office, Abrams has launched several voting rights organizations and campaigns to ensure every American has a voice in our election system. Because of this, Abrams is one of the primary figures responsible for flipping Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.
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"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers everywhere the feeling that
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their
anything possible within themselves"--Princess Nokia, musician and original landsiscenturies east of the Mississippi to Indian which is now “Documents of techniques designed toTerritory, limit progress in the blackpart ofcommunity. Oklahoma. co-founderAlthough of Two thehundred Smart Club later, Joy Harjo returns tothis heris family’s someGirl ofyears the material may be upsetting, a book lands and opens a dialogue with history. that should absolutely be included in the curriculum." – Starred review, School
Library Connection In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary. homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous WhenFrom America achieves of milestones of progress toward full and equal black families, essentially disappeared. her memory her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road in with her beloved, personal life intertwines withracist participation democracy, theHarjo’s systemic response is a consistent tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living "Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing two the myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning Civil War andof Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Croworlaws; promise of new opportunities in the North in the ruins injustice. actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer
during the Great Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the “An American Sunrise is full of celebration, crisis, brokenness and healing, poems rely on South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision with was met with that the shutting
"When reading this like book, repetition, all I feel is kindness."--Sam Grammy and Oscar award-winning and lyric techniques avoidance ofSmith, temporal specifics and the urge singer to speak
down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to songwriter collectively…” laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionately
—Daisy Fried, Nand ew Yorkelection Times of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of targeted "A fierce,blacks; penetrating,the and empowering call for change."-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump.
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“It’s time for a new beauty paradigm.”― Alok Vaid-Menon
Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence. The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary. Gender assignments create a narrative for how a person should behave, what they are allowed to like or wear, and how they express themself. Punishment of nonconformity leads to an inseparable link between gender and shame. Vaid-Menon challenges familiar arguments against gender nonconformity, breaking them down into four categories—dismissal, inconvenience, biology, and the slippery slope (fear of the consequences of acceptance). Headers in bold font create an accessible navigation experience from one analysis to the next. The prose maintains a conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking with a best friend. At the same time, the author's turns of phrase in moments of deep insight ring with precision and poetry. In one reflection, they write, “the most lethal part of the human body is not the fist; it 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: December
Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of seven established. York City to the funeral Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. December 10, 1938 November 14,victims 1903 of the Triangle unidentified focusing16, on 1916 healthcare and education in the October Shirtwaist Company fire in late March. Israel and the U.S. April 5, 1911 February 24, 1912
Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Julyon 2, a1937 beatified, thetofirst American woman seat bus a white person; her U.S. Supreme Court the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, therights citizen to become aupholds saint.civil arrest sparks the modern Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second woman toUS. play baseball in November 13, 1938 movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the which guarantees women thepitches right the all-male minor leagues, December 1, 1955 Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition game against the N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a the center for October 24,and 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees strikes out both Babe February 27, 1922 African-American women’s woman to own a seat on the history, N.Y. Stock Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange. 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 neutroninstar. Fifteen the House of October 4, 19761967 Representatives form the signs the February President24, Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. discrimination in employment. April 19, 1977 July 2, 1964
The Utah Territorial Legislature a American Revolution heroine Sybil Wyoming isFalls the first territory topasses give FirstSeneca medical school for women, the Mary McLeod Bethune opens her firstNew The Convention, the bill allowing women to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 opens. milesinon women the right to vote. England Female Medical School, school for African-American students country’s first women’s rights convention, December 10, 1869 horseback in middle of the night to November 1,the 1848 February 12, 1869 Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York warn the3,American militia that the British October 1904 Women’s Rights Movement. Mary McLeod Bethune createsaka theNellie National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, Bly, were invading. Council of Negro Women. Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around the world 72 days, became 6 hours, July 19-20, 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 5,1777 1935 Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight. Peace. fictional record set bytoPhineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and in Independence Hall present the Vice October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. President with1870 the of theDays. Rights November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, 1805
July 4, Quimby 1876 becomes the first woman to Harriet fly airplane across the English Channel. 16 an women from the National Women’s Party
were arrested April 16, 1912while picketing the White Capt.Suffrage Annie Fox receives the first Purple The 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. July 20,Bryan 1942 Owen is the first woman to Ruth
represent the U.S. as a foreign minister Althea Gibson is the first African American when she is appointed as envoy to woman player to win a Wimbledon title in Denmark. women’s tennis singles. April 13, 1933 President’s Commission on the Status of Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 Women is exchange established to examine of a stock (American Stock Marian Anderson sings an Easter American woman to win the World Figure Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). concert for more than 75,000 Lincoln Skating championship. Women’s International Leagueatfor Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 Memorial. February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is1961 awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Prize. Cheek, Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Marie Opening ofHiatt, the National Museum ofU.S. of Pennsylvania, the first woman toinhead woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Dr.Ivy Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle an League institution. during Challenger flight. Washington, DC. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig)women ordained as the first museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American mother 11 October 11, 1984 the Episcopal December 1993 artists. February 1,17, 1978 and first thirdwomen American woman topriests. fly into space. April 7, 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984
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