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Dear Friends,
This November was a busy one for our country; from election day to Native American heritage month, transgender awareness week, all the way to the senate passing a bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage; minoritized groups demanded to be heard. This month showed that people no matter their race, gender or sexuality, deserve equity and will continue to foster conversations and action for change. National Crittenton continues to fight for equity and justice. We are boldly and unapologetically moving into a future collaboratively fostering change towards eradicating all forms of oppression. We appreciate your support and we hope you continue to make an impact together with us. A new era is on the horizon for National Crittenton, but our values and tenacity for justice and empowerment are here to stay.
In Solidarity,
National Crittenton
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Latest Blog Post: We Are More Boldly and Unapologetically Moving Into Our Future
As we come to the end of 2022, we thank you for walking through this transformational year with us. Through your partnership and shared belief in National Crittenton’s work, we can continue to collaboratively foster change towards our #1 goal: to eradicate all forms of oppression. National Crittenton has entered a new phase of unapologetically seeking justice and joy, and we want to share our impacts with you in support of her/them* that co-leads the work we do.
Read more here!
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Senate passes bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage in landmark vote
CNN- 11.29.22
The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriage, called the Respect for Marriage Act, in a landmark bipartisan vote.
The final vote was 61-36. The bill was supported by all members of the Democratic caucus and 12 Republicans, the same dozen GOP members who backed the bill for a procedural vote earlier this month.The House will now need to approve the legislation before sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The House is expected to pass the bill before the end of the year – possibly as soon as next week.
“For millions of Americans, this legislation will safeguard the rights and protections to which LGBTQI+ and interracial couples and their children are entitled,” Biden said in a statement Tuesday evening after Senate passage, hailing it as a “bipartisan achievement.”
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Brooklyn D.A. assigns 1 in 5 workers to fight violence against women
NY Times- 11.28.22
One October morning in a New York City courtroom, a woman from Pakistan tearfully recounted how an arranged marriage with a man she barely knew had devolved into violence in a tiny apartment in Flatlands, Brooklyn.
She told the judge about when she had finally called 911. Police officers had found her huddling in the bathroom with a bloody mouth and broken glasses — she had turned on the shower when calling for help so her husband and in-laws couldn’t hear. She said in court that officers had gone back to fetch her shoes. A few feet away at the defense table, her estranged husband, in shackles, kept his head lowered, his eyes trained on the desk in front of him.
For years, cases like these — which typically involve not just prosecutors, but social workers, police officers, children’s services, immigration authorities, shelters and translators — were handled by different offices, disjointed efforts that victims and their lawyers said tended to delay justice and left their varied needs unmet.
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Muslim Americans make historic gains in midterm elections
Nabeela Syed made history in this year’s midterms when she defeated a Republican incumbent in Illinois’s 51st District, making her the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly and among the first Muslims elected to the state legislature.
“It is so important for us to have a seat at the table, for us to have a voice in the legislative process,” Syed, a 23-year-old Indian American who is Muslim, told a local TV news reporter soon after her win. Syed recalled a conversation with a friend who had never expected to see a name like hers on yard signs in their community.
To Syed, candidacies like hers are viable “if people put in the time, the effort and the money,” she said in a podcast series documenting her campaign. Syed and Abdelnasser Rashid became the first Muslims elected to the Illinois legislature.
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Biden making new commitments at Tribal Nations Summit
ABC News - 11.30.22
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden plans to make new commitments to Native American nations during the government's first in-person summit on tribal affairs in six years.
The changes include uniform standards for federal agencies to consult with tribes, a plan to revitalize Native languages and new efforts to strengthen the tribal rights that are outlined in existing treaties with the U.S. government. Biden, a Democrat, is scheduled to address the White House Tribal Nations Summit on Wednesday, the opening day of the two-day summit.
The gathering coincides with National Native American Heritage Month, which is celebrated in November. Leaders and representatives from hundreds of Native American tribes are expected to attend.
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Bills targeting trans youth are growing more common — and radically reshaping lives
NPR- 11.28.22
An NPR analysis of this fast-changing landscape found that over the past two years, state lawmakers introduced at least 306 bills targeting trans people, more than in any previous period. A majority of this legislation, 86%, focuses on trans youth.
While not every proposal has succeeded — about 15% of the bills have become law — the surge of legislative activity reflects what many advocates see as an increasingly hostile environment for LGBTQ rights in statehouses across the country and even some corners of Congress.
Some of the new laws have been temporarily blocked by the courts. But legal challenges have done little to slow the pace of new proposals, according to Katie Eyer, a professor at Rutgers Law School. It's an echo, she says, of the period after Brown v. Board of Education, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation in schools, but many states kept trying to pass laws to obstruct the ruling.
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Cherokees ask US to make good on promise: a seat in Congress
ABC News- 11.28.22
The country's largest Native American tribe, the Cherokee Nation, is ramping up calls on the U.S. government to fulfill a promise made nearly 200 years ago.
The historic treaty, which forced the Cherokee people off their ancestral lands across the Southeast and onto the infamous Trail of Tears in 1835, was supposed to give them official representation in Washington in exchange. It has never happened.
"The promise was very simple," said Cherokee Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. "The treaty literally says the Cherokee Nation 'shall have' a right to a delegate in the House of Representatives."
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Transforming trans survival into trans joy
The Grio - 11.28.22
Trans girls and gender-expansive youth of color deserve to be safe, free and thriving.
But today, trans and gender-expansive communities are facing multiple, interlocking systems of oppression. Across cities and states, trans communities are under attack from anti-trans legislation that aims to direct physical, psychological and spiritual violence in homes, schools, facilities and communities. This includes legislation that specifically targets youth, as well as trans folks who are Black or come from other communities of color.
In 2022 alone, there have been more than 100 bills introduced in state legislatures across the country targeting young trans people. Beyond political targeting and systemic discrimination, too many young people coming into their trans and queer identity find themselves on the streets compared to their cisgender counterparts.
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‘Culture of exclusion’ keeps women of color from top media jobs, report reveals
The Guardian - 11.30.22
Women of color are suffering from a “culture of exclusion” that is seeing them passed over for the top jobs in media organizations and written out of the stories those outlets cover, a report has found.
In an unprecedented analysis of newsrooms and news stories from six countries – the UK, Nigeria, India, South Africa, Kenya and the US – women of all backgrounds were found to be significantly underrepresented in editorial leadership roles and in coverage.
For every woman who was an editor-in-chief, the analysis found, there were at least two – and in some places as many as 12 – men at the same level. But the challenges facing women of colour in racially diverse countries, such as South Africa, the UK and the US, were even greater, the report concluded. In Britain, where 37% of the media organizations surveyed, including the Guardian, had a female editor-in-chief, only 1% had a woman of color at the helm.
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