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Features & analyses

An Immigrant Woman’s Opinion: My Native Tongue Does Not Define My Immigrant Identity After All

What it feels like to lose a language – and why I’m not too worried about it. Walk around New York any given day and you’ll be bombarded by advertisements on billboards to buses and everything in between. Given the marketing overload, I don’t often pay attention to these messages. But as I started thinking about what I wanted to write about this past Immigrant Heritage Month (proclaimed a national event by President Biden), a poster I thought I’d only...

Culture & events

Highlights from our Summer Art Fest event

Written by Lumi Zogaj. Photos by Constanza Prieto.  For Thahitun Mariam, immigration means learning to exist in multiple places. Originally from Bangladesh, she feels at home both there and in her adopted home of New York City. As for Kweighbaye Kotee, who fled the Liberian civil war with her family and now lives in Brooklyn, she still has “an inner yearning to connect to home in Liberia.” Both women were speaking at a roundtable discussion held during Summer Art Fest,...

Portraits & interviews

Our latest news: New venue for Real People. Real Lives., LEAD launches, and more

Our exhibit Real People. Real Lives. closed at the Queens Museum, it will travel next to the Centre for Social Innovation in June! After showing for four weeks, our exhibit Real People. Real Lives. closed at the Queens Museum – Thank you to all among you who attended and contributed to our living mural! If you missed Real People. Real Lives. or would like to see it again, save the evening of June 7: The exhibit will open in honor of Immigrant Heritage Month...

Culture & events / Real People. Real Lives.

2018 Real People. Real Lives. exhibit opens at Queens Museum

Words and photos by Anna Tyor On February 17 at Queens Museum, New Women New Yorkers launched the second iteration of its Real People. Real Lives: Women Immigrants of New York photo exhibit. It was a crowded scene, as intrigued New Yorkers from around the city packed into the second-floor gallery space to see the work of photographer-filmmaker Dru Blumensheid in collaboration with NWNY. Featuring 16 immigrant women who’ve moved to New York from around the world, the series was...