New Women New Yorkers

Author: Anamaria Ferferi

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...

Books

Spring Booklist: The Beauty and Strength of the Human Spirit Awakening

Celebrating four excellent AAPI contributions to American literature, here is a list of the books I suggest you read The advent of spring in New York City was accompanied by a stronger than usual sigh of relief. Even if the despair and upheaval of 2020 had not quite left us, something about the abundant sunshine seemed to make it easier to handle. But alongside the renewed sense of hope, spring also delivered a long-overdue awakening for many Americans regarding the...