Catch up: 6 blog posts from 2015 that you can’t miss
Written by Anna Archibald
The past year has been one for the books at New Women New Yorkers. Aside from successful first, second, third, and fourth runs of the LEAD Program, which provides professional training and support for young women immigrants in NYC, as well as a variety of other accomplishments, we’ve built an impressive team of bloggers — the majority of whom are young women immigrants themselves.
In 2015, they wrote stories encompassing myriad issues surrounding women in the immigrant community, including transgender rights, their own struggles as immigrants coming to the US, and the way immigrants are portrayed in mass media — not to mention a variety of interviews with immigrant women from around the world, and features about NYC’s immigrant history and neighborhoods.
If you’re looking for something to read over the next two days while you anxiously wait for New Year’s Eve to arrive, check out these six inspiring stories from 2015.
1. When transgender women fall in the immigration crossfire
In this story from October 2015, Khatia Mikadze looks at the challenges that transgender immigrant women face in detention centers.
2. Interviews with women immigrants
The NWNY blog team was fortunate enough to chat with multiple immigrant women in NYC over the past 12 months. Jahaida Hernández Jesurum interviewed many of those women, including author Nadia al Sultani, who wrote about her experiences traveling back and forth from the US to Iraq, and Anabella Lenzu, a dancer who found her freedom in sacrifice.
3. An immigrant’s path to freedom
Edil Cuepo talks about her own experience in moving to NYC from the Philippines and how each Fourth of July reminds her of the struggles she faced — and her ultimate successes.
4. Preserving culture with grandma’s cooking
Go inside the story of video journalist and entrepreneur Caroline Shin with Mikadze and how her grandmother inspired her to start the viral web series “Cooking with Granny.”
5. What does the media focus on when it talks about immigrants?
Immigration is a recurring theme in the news — but what does the media actually focus on when discussing immigrants? Sabrina Axster takes a deeper look.
6. Astoria, Queens: everybody’s neighborhood
In September, Abbey Kurtz demonstrated how easy it is to tour the world in Astoria’s few city blocks with this story on the neighborhood’s immigrant history.
