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Women and Adversity: Esther Lederberg Microbiologist: Pioneer in Bacterial Genetics Discovered Lambda Phage virus

Esther Lederberg, Microbiologist (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category: Esther_Lederberg) Women and Adversity: Esther Lederberg Microbiologist: Pioneer in Bacterial Genetics  Discovered Lambda Phage virus Few people know what lambda phage virus is, but Esther Lederberg discovered it in 1951. This discovery is said to have revolutionized how to understand viruses. I have no intention of…

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#OnThisDay in 1968

#OnThisDay Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at his last New York City appearance before his assassination at Local 1199’s annual “Salute to Freedom” event at @HunterCollege on March 10, 1968 to promote the Poor People’s Campaign, a march on Washington to fight for economic justice for the poor, and to rally against the war in Vietnam. 

 Local 1199 was MLK and Coretta Scott’s favorite union and during this speech entitled “The Other America,” King lauded the organizing efforts of 1199 and anti-war stance of the union as “the authentic conscience of the labor movement.”

 An excerpt from Dr. King at this event: “In these moments of disenchantment, I begin to think of unions like Local 1199 and it gives me renewed courage and vigor to carry on... and the feeling that there are some unions left that will always maintain the radiant and vibrant idealism that brought the labor movement into being. And I would suggest that if all of labor would emulate what you have been doing over the years, our nation would be closer to victory in the fight to eliminate poverty and injustice. I also believe that if all of labor were to follow your example of mobilizing and involving working people in the campaign to end the war in Vietnam, our nation would be much closer to a swift settlement of that immoral, unjust, and ill-considered war. {...} And so for many reasons I'm happy to be here, because of your fight for justice, your fight for peace, your fight for human decency, and for dignity for every working person. I don't consider myself a stranger. I've been with 1199 so many times in the past that I consider myself a fellow 1199er…”. 

 [Pictures from Coll. #6118, #6140, and #5206s Local 1199 Executive Secretary Moe Foner Records]

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U.S. Navy WAVES, wearing their white summer uniforms, (how the heck did they keep them clean?!?), march in formation at Hunter College, c. 1944. During WWII, Hunter leased their Bronx Campus to train 95,000 women WAVES and Coast Guard SPARS.  Notice how well-worn the marching paths are. http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/WVHP/id/3603/rec/5  

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Hunter College - The Playhouse, 695 Park Ave., New York, NY, November 24th, 1967 #thedoors #jimmorrison #poet #artist #original #newyork #theplayhouse #huntercollege #1967 (at Hunter College) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD7rxepMC_k/?igshid=13r0ubedgki35

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#FlashbackFridays My squad 🏆🏀🏆 So blessed to play with & against my brothers! I miss the rivalry! The battles at home destroying mini hoops, hallways, & bedroom doors were EPIC! 1-on-1 games rarely finished with a winner cuz a fight was guaranteed to go down! Packed Staten Island High School League games in the late 90’s was every ballers dream! Nothing better than beating Peters at Peters! CUNYAC Tourney conference match ups were always a WAR! Good times @champ2a @jcalbano_hoops! I’m happy for our collection of championships & personal accolades but beyond the trophies, I’m proud of the work we put in & the experiences we had playing & now coaching. The countless hours of basketball is beyond an obsession for the game. I wouldn’t trade it for anything! I can’t even thank my sisters, my parents, & family enough for being our number 1 fans. I can’t wait to get back on the court! #StepYourGameUp #StRitas #MooreCatholic #StPeters #CHSAABasketball #HunterCollege #BaruchCollege #CollegeOfStatenIsland #CUNYACChamps #LaFamiliaPrima #ShootersShoot #FilAmBasketball #ForLoveOfTheGame #ChampionDNA (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_XmcoxnBH_/?igshid=av7mxk7vhpla

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[backroombuzz]

Hillary Clinton's Alzheimer's Kicks In At The Perfect Time To Claim Trump Did Nothing About Election Meddling

When Hillary Clinton spoke at Hunter College’s commencement ceremony her OBAMAmnesia kicked in perfectly as she started ripping into President Trump about Russia meddling in our elections.

Watch The Video http://bit.ly/2JPANaW .

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[kheelcenter]

#LaborOrganizerSpotlight Dr. King!

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this week, this weeks' #LaborOrganizerSpotlight will be, you guessed it, Dr. King. Seeing labor and civil rights as twin pillars of social reform, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked tirelessly to advocate for working people, create connections with labor leaders and union members, play key roles in pivotal strikes, and fight for economic justice on several fronts. He believed strongly in the labor movement asserting that “organized labor has been one of the deterrents of human exploitation throughout its long history in America.” King's "favorite union" was Local 1199 Health and Hospital Worker Union. King provided support for Local 1199 by speaking at rallies and being the face of the movement to unionize the healthcare workers of New York City. Starting with a massive strike of 3,000 workers in seven hospitals in 1959, his last New York City appearance was at @HunterCollege of the City University of New York on March 10, 1968, speaking at the 1199’s “Salute to Freedom” event to promote the Poor People’s Campaign, a march on Washington to fight for economic justice for the poor, and rally against the war in Vietnam. Here, he is pictured receiving the Social Justice Award on behalf of the Religion and Labor Foundation. Interested in learning more about MLK, and other labor organizers who had a significant impact on the civil rights and labor movements? The Kheel Center is reopen for in-person appointments- schedule one today! Be sure to explore our digital collections as well. All information can be found at https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/ . #CornellRAD #LaborArchives #LaborHistory #ArchivesOfInstagram #AllLaborHasDignity #KheelCenter #ILRSchool #LaborRights #Strikes #WorkingWednesday #MartinLutherKingJr #MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLK #MLKDay #CivilRights #CorettaScottKing #LaborSpotlight @CornellILaborSpotlight @ILRSchool @CornellTextileIndustry @CornellFashionCollection

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Countdown Profile: Week 4 Alexis Jemal (’21)

Alexis Jemal, JD, LCSW, PhD, clinical faculty member at Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work, and member of the MA in Applied Theatre class of 2021, talks with Michael Wilson (’11) about her hunger for justice, finding applied theatre, and how she’s just getting started. 

Okay, we’re recording 

The first thing I want to put out there is that I don’t have all the answers or know how all these pieces fit together. I consider this journey to be a work in progress. That’s how I’ve always led my life and have ended up where I am today. It may sound, I don’t know how it will sound at the end, whether it seems it all fits together… 

I’m a many-interested person myself, from anthropology to theatre, and now photography. There’s a connective logic I feel intuitively, but it might not look like it from the outside. I do believe that we attract passionate, interdisciplinary people to the program. 

Exactly. 

I welcome that complexity. 

It is complexity! Which I have found not always welcome or understood. Even in my doctorate program, for example, they’re trying to fit you in a box. They’re trying to say who you are as a researcher. Do you do this, do you do that?

 At first, I started out in law, because I wanted to help people. The main message in my personal statement for law school was: “stealing bread is wrong, whether it’s done by the king or the man living beneath the bridge.” I had read this passage in a sociology textbook. That made me think about inequity, and how, well, the king will never be prosecuted for stealing bread…

I went to law school because I wanted to be an advocate for the man, woman, child, person who lives under the bridge. I loved law school. But then I had a bunch of internships at places, like in the chambers of a Federal District Judge, at the New York Civil Liberties Union, at MFY Legal Services in New York that provides legal services to indigent people, and the Public Defender’s Office in my home county in New Jersey. And I kept seeing injustice after injustice after injustice. A person who is getting evicted from their house, yes, you could help them not be evicted, legally, but that wouldn’t help with their mental health issues, or their substance abuse issues. It wouldn’t help with the trauma they’ve experienced in their family history, or the macro sociopolitical issues that are harming them.

 So I figured, social work is where I really want to go. I ended up first working at this place at Rutgers called the Center for Behavior Health Services and Criminal Justice Research. That’s when I learned I was interested in research, because we were testing psychosocial interventions within the women’s prison in New Jersey. I was really seeing the intersection [between] the intrapersonal, interpersonal, the mezzo, the macro…everything was interacting. I thought, this is what I want to do. I want to be on the frontlines but I also want to be a researcher. I was one of two students that were admitted to the first PhD MSW program that Rutgers started—one foot in front of the other, the stars just kind of aligned… In my doctorate program, I was not planning to go into a professorship. I wanted to do more the non-profit route. But I began to consider how going into social work education could be advocacy in a way that I get to help shape future social workers. I could be that change that I want to see in social work.

 Thank you for sharing that. I’m inspired by that.

 It all intersects. To me, social workers have no excuse. We are the only field, as far as I know, to have an ethical mandate to address oppression. When any social injustice occurs, we should be the first responders. Instead, we’re trying to be psychologists, or something. 

Technically, at Silberman School of Social Work, I am clinical faculty. I get to, in my class, bring the message of how clinical work and social justice need to be integrated and practiced. Like: “I get it, you guys want to go out and you want do therapy, but you will be interacting with multiple systems, and there’s no way around it. So how are you going to practice with an anti-oppressive lens?”

 So that’s the teaching. I’m also a researcher, right? My interventions are always grounded in critical theory, liberation health models, restorative justice-type practices. They’re always about developing critical consciousness. 

For my dissertation, I wanted to create a scale of Paolo Freire’s critical consciousness. As a doctoral student I was developing an intervention called Community Wise, that’s grounded in critical consciousness theory. Community Wise is a group intervention, it’s fifteen two-hour weekly sessions, for people who were recently released from incarceration. It’s supposed to reduce HIV STI risk, criminal reoffending, psychological distress, and substance use. And it’s grounded in critical consciousness theory, meaning that we have these critical dialogues, and we have capacity building projects, where the participants work on some type of project together. 

The theory is called transformative potential: a scale of critical consciousness. The heart of the theory is that…when people [social workers] design interventions, like substance abuse interventions, they’re trying to get these people to use substances less, but really, what we’re arguing, is substance abuse is a symptom. It is not the issue. The issue is oppression. If we can find ways to get at the root of the issue, then substance use will decrease.

 And there’s the Freirian piece: you’re there to challenge people to develop critical consciousness, that’s about reading the world.

 Exactly. We’ve all been socialized to blame the individual. The participants have been socialized that way, as well. “When I come out of prison I should be able to get a job, I should be able to do this…I have all these skills, I have all these certificates.” And it’s like, “dangit, you don’t need another certificate. What you need is for people to stop discriminating against you and give you a job!” 

One of the questions I ask people sometimes is, “could you have done everything right and still things have gone wrong?” And the answer is, well, “yes.” And that tells you it can’t be 100% about you. 

I am concerned with the health of marginalized people. I want my work to be a healing agent. And it always has to be multi-systemic. 

So, that’s what brings me to applied theatre. 

How? 

I saw psychodrama at a social work conference. And I was immediately impacted by it. Everything started to collide in my head. From, role theory…we’re all on the stage, different roles that we play…to, just that art itself, whether it’s dance, whether it’s painting, just has a way of breaking down boundaries. How I see applied theatre fitting in [my work] is that it integrates healing from trauma that’s associated with oppression AND raising consciousness and getting people to act against inequity.

 And I have always been a creative writer…I’ve always felt I didn’t know how to integrate my academic and creatives sides…but applied theatre is the perfect way to integrate both aspects of myself. It seemed to all merge here. 

I have several ideas. I wrote a story when I was thirteen or fourteen about hair. I know that for, especially black women, there’s so much trauma at the roots. Every time I read this story I can’t help but to cry. It’s a tear jerker. I think about how this [the exploration of hair] could be used with theatre as a healing agent for the people who participate in the drama, devising [an original piece of theatre around hair], but also it can impact people who are watching it. 

Telling your story is healing, but also empowering. And unifying. It could build empathy, you could know people in a way that you didn’t know them before. 

Thank you. Thanks for bringing me up to what seems to be a frontier for you now. 

Yes. It seems to bring together all of my interests, from education to consciousness raising to community organizing to healing, to health. To creativity.

 Now switching gears, what does it take to keep going as an interdisciplinary person in a world of siloed work? 

Yeah, that’s…I believe that my work will be more effective [because it’s interdisciplinary], I guess. But I do battle. You know, it’s not like just going into carpentry, where I can just work with the person’s mind, and forget their health, because you know…people can’t be sliced. People can’t be separated like that. We’re complex and we’re a mess and that’s humanity. 

What gets you up each day to keep doing it?

 People are fascinating to me. I could sit and people stare, and guess, what happened there? When I’m driving and see a home, and I can kind of see in laughs—like I’m peeping—I wonder, does that family eat dinner together? Is there violence? My mind wanders. And, I’ve always been a person about justice. I’ve always been a champion for people who didn’t have power, since I’ve been young. To stand up for people, to stand up for justice. I don’t like people to be in pain or to suffer. My name, that’s connected to Alexander, defender of mankind. And that’s how I’ve felt. I’ve always been about justice and equity.

 Okay. Well, as I’m listening, I’m so struck by your accomplishment and knowledge. I really admire what you’re up to. 

Thank you. People think I’m humble or something, but I don’t feel like I’ve done much, yet. People are always in awe of the DEGREES. It’s like, yeah, but the degrees mean nothing if you don’t do anything with them. So I’m hoping that I do make a difference…so far I feel like I’m laying groundwork. I’m in the preparation stage. 

Rapid fire round. A fiction author or book that’s lighting up your imagination? 

That is hard to say, because, I’m so ashamed to admit this, but I don’t read as widely as I’d like. Because, I’m usually reading journal articles and papers. 

Alright, fine. But did you read Octavia Butler at all? 

So that’s the funny thing. I just took this writing course at Medgar Evers in October. It was every Monday night. And I write kind of sci-fi stuff. 

Aah [of course, just like Butler]. 

That’s my genre. I started looking up African-American sci-fi writers, and of course she pops up. So I have several of her books on my kindle but I have not read one yet. But I do know who she is. 

There’s someone else who was perpetually fascinated. And so personal…so interested in each person’s wounds and psychology, and also so curious about social change. She used dystopias that are not so far away as a metaphor for interrogating the present. She used the arts as a reflecting surface for society.

 I’ve been warned that I sound a lot like her…the teacher was like, “I don’t know if you should read her, because it may…” So I’m like, “do I or don’t I?” 

Well you’ve given me a writing challenge, because I have a full article here on your work on critical consciousness and a full article on your reflections on the value of theatre. 

And so I’ll tell you this last part so it wraps it up. I have this research project I’m starting to get into now…with women, they’re going to do auto-ethnography. Researching their own lives and experiences with different types of oppression. And the last part that I’m hoping they do—I’m going to present it to them, but it’s up to them—is to do something with applied theater. Somehow incorporating what they’ve learned from their autoethnographies into some type of applied theatre format. So that’s kind of where it’s going. That’s it. 

For now. Thank you so much. 

Thank you for listening.

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Panorama from my roof. Study for a mural in 3 panels: east wall, with below detail of my three old favorite sights: a former NY public library, Hunter College and a public housing building on 40th street. Oil on canvas, 2019. #urbanlandscape #cityscape #oilpainting #peinturealhuile #hudsonyards #hellohudsonyards #hkhy #lincolntunnel #garmentdistrict #courtyardnycmidtownwest #37thstreet #55hudsonyards #glassfarmhouse #huntercollege #hudsonyardshellskitchenalliance #hellskitchen #manhattan #newyorkcity #newyorkart #w42st #fredericlere (at Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btyi02XAN0Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=163n631xrdhfg