High-quality career and technical education programs offered by community and technical colleges can offer hundreds of students a pathway to well-paying careers. However, many of these plans switched to online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and several will remain so, widening the inequality gap.
According to a study by the Urban Institute, "structural racism and other systemic inequalities can limit access to and success in online career and technical education programs for students of color, especially Black, Latino, and Native American students.
The paper notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed racial inequities and accelerated the shift to online learning in career and technical education (CTE) programs.
As economic insecurity and disparities persist for African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and other communities of color, CTE programs that develop skills aligned with in-demand sectors can improve outcomes and mobility for communities facing structural barriers.
Many postsecondary CTE programs have followed the gradual shift toward online learning that has been occurring at colleges and universities for years, a trend accelerated by the pandemic and rapid change associated with remote education.
For while online education - and other forms of technology-enhanced education - can create opportunities for students who struggle to attend face-to-face classes, structural racism and other systemic inequalities limit some students' access to and success in online educational environments.
An example of this, details the document, are the low levels of reading comprehension due to school segregation and digital literacy gaps resulting from less exposure to technology, which causes unequal educational opportunities.
In addition, the lack of investment in broadband infrastructure in communities of color and the high costs of Internet devices and service have resulted in unequal access to technology, which can make online participation more challenging for African American, Latino, and Native American students.
Such barriers, he explains, are compounded when CTE programs do not offer access to needed technology or career-oriented academic advising supports, and when instruction is not responsive to students' needs.
The study notes that there are significant disparities in postsecondary CTE outcomes between students of color and Caucasian students in community and technical college programs, and these gaps are widest in online programs.
The study conducted in conjunction with several technical colleges suggests that career and technical education programs have increasingly moved online, following the general trend toward virtual learning at community and technical colleges.
Thus, by 2016, 46 percent of CTE students had taken at least one online course, whereas in 2000 only 10 percent had done so, and from 2000 to 2016, the proportion of CTE students enrolled in fully online programs increased from 3.0 percent to approximately 7.0 percent.
The extent to which CTE students participate in online courses or programs varies by major. During that period, approximately half of students in business and marketing-52 percent-and education-50 percent-completed at least one online course, and both sectors had the highest proportion of fully online students at 9.0 percent.
In contrast, CTE students in engineering and architecture were the least engaged in taking online courses-37 percent-and only 3.0 percent participated in fully online programs.
The study also reveals that, since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, nearly all students in CTE programs are expected to have taken at least one online course.
In that sense, the document explains that continuing with an online or hybrid modality would depend on the willingness of the students and the instructor, and the availability of good technological tools and the success of students in online and hybrid courses.
Among the most notable findings, it was found that while white students are the plurality in all sectors, they are most represented in trades - 56 percent - one of the highest paying fields, as well as engineering and architecture.
Meanwhile, African-American students are more represented in health sciences - 17 percent - while Latinos are more focused on consumer services - 29 percent - the latter sector being among the lowest paid.
Other students of color are more heavily represented in computer science and information technology - 19 percent.
The Hallmark House Apartments affordable apartment development is accepting applications for low-income Redwood City residents to access decent housing.
The apartments are scheduled to open this summer, and will be located at 531 Woodside Road, providing "much-needed" affordable housing options for the city, Hallmark details on its website.
Once completed, the Hallmark House complex will offer 72 one-bedroom apartments reserved for low-income residents.
Applicants' household limits must be less than 60 percent of the median household income in San Mateo County, according to the application page. For a three-person household, the maximum income to be eligible would be $93,960 per year, and the units would cost more than $1,900 per month.
It is worth noting that the new development, replaces an old property that burned down in 2013, which is why residents had to move to other spaces.
The contractor notes that all units have a private patio or balcony, walk-in closets, centralized heating and air conditioning, as well as an electric stove.
In addition, all residents of the complex will be able to enjoy the on-site recreation room, which will feature a kitchen, pool, elevators, trash chutes, central laundry, outdoor seating area, covered parking, and nearby public transportation.
It is important for applicants to have proof of income on hand, such as: last 2020 pay stub along with most recent pay stub, social security award letter, current unemployment claim award letter, tax return for the most recent 2 years if self-employed, child support documents -current-, county assistance -Cal-Works, current letter-, retirement income, or any other not listed above.
This artsy local non-profit organization goes mobile in April. Casa Círculo Cultural will schedule public arts and cultural activities in Redwood City's parks and commons.
The COVID-19 pandemic affected our way of life in more ways than one. Nonprofits had to adjust and, to be honest, struggled in many new areas. Casa Circulo Cultural, a truly vibrant, grassroots, local nonprofit organization that uses multidisciplinary arts to create cultural programming that reflects the experiences of Latino communities, transformed itself to continue to provide services to the San Mateo County community. Among other activities, and to follow the social distancing guidelines, they started doing online classes and live streaming events through our social networks.
The effects of the pandemic, such as social isolation, will continue for the rest of the year and will remain - perhaps - for a long time. Humans are social beings, and we can't just stick to online interaction, which generates stress, depression and feelings of loneliness.
In the effort to adapt, Casa Círculo Cultural will not only continue its online activities, but will also expand to implement the CCC - Mobile program. This program will hold cultural and artistic activities in parks and public places in Redwood City beginning in mid-April. They will continue to follow social distancing and take all safety precautions. CCC-Mobile activities will include art workshops, plays, health talks and sports activities.
The CCC-Mobile program will use a medium-sized RV-type vehicle with a Casa Círculo Cultural bathroom and kitchenette, and a table and chairs as an office. The vehicle will transport tents, speakers and other materials needed for outdoor activities.
It is planned that this unit will visit one or two parks per weekend and offer three one-hour activities for 15 children per class.
This will contribute to the emotional and physical health of the city's inhabitants. It will also facilitate the necessary reappropriation of our parks as ideal spaces for coexistence and community communication, which unfortunately was fragmented during the pandemic.
Silicon Valley is not feminist, it neglects women's power in tech; unequal wages and low or no credit are constant.
Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
The world of computing and technology has had women since its inception, many of them pioneers in the field, however, to date remain hidden figures in the archives of what is now one of the most important industries and with the highest number of profits worldwide.
Discrimination, unequal wages and little or no credit for women are the constant in the sector that embraces Silicon Valley.
According to Statista, if you want to work in a fair environment in the tech industry, it's best to move to Kansas City, which, while it doesn't have a great reputation in the sector, at least has the smallest gender pay gap nationally, with women being paid two percent more than men in the industry.
But if a woman's dream is to reach the "mecca" of the U.S. industry, it should be taken into consideration that the cities within Silicon Valley have a considerably larger gap between men and women, placing them even below the country's average, as they earn 16 percent less than men in the area.
Digging deeper into the numbers, the picture is worse. Women represent only 35 percent of the staff hired and almost never occupy technical positions, let alone management positions, because according to an analysis by the auditing firm Ernst & Young, 99 percent of venture capital resources are used to finance projects that have at least one male entrepreneur.
While the percentage of women employed across all job sectors in the U.S. has increased 47 percent, the five largest tech companies on the planet - Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft - only have a workforce of about 34.4 percent women, according to Builtin.
Notably, African-American and Hispanic women, who majored in computer science or engineering, are less likely to be hired for a technology position than their white counterparts.
Women in Technology Figures
26 percent of computer-related jobs are held by women.
Only 3.0 percent of computer-related jobs are held by African American women, 6.0 percent by Asian women, and 2.0 percent by Hispanic women.
50 percent of women reported experiencing gender discrimination at work.
43 percent of Americans believe women create a safer and more respectful work environment than men. Only 5 percent of Americans believe men create a safer workspace.
48 percent of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs report discrimination in the recruiting and hiring process.
Positively, women's earnings are outpacing men's when it comes to high-skilled jobs.
Currently, women are still severely underrepresented in software engineering at only 14 percent of the total workforce, while in computer-related jobs it is only 25 percent.
In the last 20 years, hiring of female software engineers has only increased by 2.0 percent, so we need to recognize the women who have been helping make our lives so much easier through technology for years.
The established women of Silicon Valley
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO
When one mentions the company Facebook, the first thing that comes to mind is Mark Zuckerberg, however, number two is a woman. Sheryl Kara Sandberg is the current chief operating officer of the social network. She is an American economist, author and CEO, as well as the founder of Leanin.org.
In June 2012, she was elected to the executive committee, becoming the first woman to serve on this committee at Facebook. According to Forbes, Sanberg is the most powerful woman in the tech world.
Previously, Sheryl was vice president of online sales and operations at Google.
Her foundation is dedicated to female empowerment, and bears the same name as the book and bestseller she published in 2013.
Susan Wojcicki, YouTube CEO
The world's leading real-time streaming platform has a woman's signature. In 1998, in her fourth month of pregnancy, this woman rented her garage in Palo Alto -California- to some students who were developing a novel project. They were Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The "invention" was Google.
After years of good suggestions, the Santa Clara County native is now the CEO of the video platform, where she has implemented pro-worker measures such as remote work and 22 weeks of paid maternity leave.
In her thousands of talks and speeches she has made very clear the importance of family. The priorities of the historian, publicist and economist are her five children and her husband, so she has made it clear that she does not answer calls or work emails after six in the evening.
Anna Lee Mraz Bartra. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Listen to the article8M March. Mexico City, 2020. Photo: Jiroko Nakamura
When I asked as a girl why the April 30th celebration of childhood was called "Día del Niño" (Boy's Day literally because in Spanish the masculine is used for both genders), I was confused. When I was the girl in the classroom who wanted to play soccer, even if it meant being the only one, I was called weird. When I went outside to play with my neighbors and they talked about "Viejas" (a derogatory way of referring to a woman), I was annoyed and asked them not to do so, sometimes they would walk away. When my mother explained to me that feminism was the struggle for equality for women, I responded that all women should be feminists, it was only logical. And so, I got tired of feeling alone and, for many years, I gave up the fight.
Something was gnawing inside me as I went through adolescence, the fire still quiet. But, when men looked at us lustfully when walking with my friends from the car to the club, a spark ignited; when a man put his hand down the blouse of my friend who was walking down the street, a spark ignited; when a colleague heard an idea of mine in a meeting and repeated it louder to make it his own, a spark ignited; when I heard the stories of women in shelters fleeing from drunken, abusive husbands, a spark ignited. When my students cried with me about being hurt before, a spark ignited.
And when I realized that every woman I know has suffered some kind of sexual violence, the fire lit.
8M March, Mexico City, 2020. Photo: Jiroko Nakamura
That fire inside of me, which had been dormant for so many years, lit the way for me to connect with other fires.
This is what feminism feels like, a warmth that runs through your body and takes away the cold left by abuse or mockery. It is the light that shines from the chest, welcomes you from the shadows and rejection. It is the vibration that shakes off mistreatment, hurtful words and clears the sky to allow you to fly.
It is the individual and the collective, for your fire does not burn alone. It absorbs the energy of the others, in a give and take of strength. When we realized it, we were thousands. And Latin America ignited. It ignited with rage, indignation and courage.
It does not come from nothing this flame that now threatens to set fire to the doors of all the palaces and glass roofs; for wise women, ancient witches and powerful dinosaurs had already loaded with stones, logs and ocote. They had already created their own fires that knocked down more than one monument.
They pass us the baton, a heavy, dangerous baton with a giant warning sign on it: "It won't be easy." And it is not.
The struggle is imperfect, we make mistakes. We listen to each other, but sometimes we don't. We don't always agree and we throw it up for debate. We want to run before we walk and we stumble. Some of us want to change everything, aware that it will also change us inside.
They call it radical, liberal, philosophical, equality, difference, abolitionist, Marxist, white, colonial, decolonial, postcolonial, anarcho, institutional, lesbian, black, cultural, separatist, cyber, eco, dissident, queer... It comes in all shapes, backgrounds, tones, sizes, colors and smells.
And it's uncomfortable, it's bitter to dig into one's own coding. That's why we embrace and sing in unison, like someone who puts sugar in medicine. We cry and laugh hand in hand, we share what is difficult. And we irritate, because we are changing things, but there is still a long way to go.
The struggle is still needed as long as they keep killing and disappearing our sisters.It goes without saying how repulsed I am that this happens every two hours in Latin America. The United States is not far behind, as in 2018 nearly two thousand women were murdered, mostly at the hands of their intimate partner. I can't understand why I can't find more recent data, but it's clear to me that the murder of Vanessa Guillén is not the only one of its kind in this country and it touches a chord in all aspects.
8M March, Mexico City, 2020. Photo: Jiroko Nakamura.
It will be a long way off as long as we continue to earn less than our male counterparts in the job market. The fight will be necessary as long as the girl I teach dance on Saturday mornings to doesn't cry because her older brother is the only one allowed to play video games because "that's for men". It will be necessary as long as they look at us with lust in the street, as long as they touch us, and it will continue to be necessary as long as they continue to make laws about what to do with our bodies, without our authorization.
This movement has been around for 3 centuries, no matter what you call it, the objective is common. And we will continue to burn until we break everything.
8M March, Mexico City, 2020. Photo: Jiroko Nakamura.
In the wake of the rising number of homeless in San Francisco, officials have raised concerns as shelters have had to reduce the number of people they help due to COVID-19, and the cost of housing homeless people in tents has reached more than $16 million.
San Francisco is paying $16.1 million to house homeless people in 262 tents in vacant lots around the city, where they also receive services and food.
When you do the math, it's clear that the cost of supporting each of those tents on the land is more than $61,000 per tent per year.
That's more than double the cost of an average one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, so why waste money, especially when the city is projected to have a budget deficit of more than $650 million over the next two years.
The six tent sites, called "safe sleeping villages," are monitored 24 hours a day, with food distribution, clean water, garbage collection and access to toilets.
It should be noted that the tent program is not eligible for federal reimbursement, and the $16.1 million allocated for the program in the current budget is a fraction of the more than $300 million spent annually on homeless services.
While the program is expensive - the average nightly cost per tent is $190 - it is $82 less than what the city pays to house the needy in its homeless hotel program.
However, the hotel program, which offers four walls, a bed and a private bathroom, costing about $21 million a month, is reimbursable by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
During last Wednesday's budget committee hearing, the department's acting director of homelessness, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, pointed out that tent sites are not eligible for federal reimbursement because they are considered a group shelter.
He added that the city struggled to create other options for the homeless, as indoor shelters were closing early in the pandemic, and officials did not have time to conduct a more thorough contract bidding process, which may have reduced operating costs.
In that regard, Stewart-Kahn said the department is "conducting an analysis" on the tent program and figuring out how it can move forward with the program.
The city, which originally thought the program would be reimbursed by FEMA, has paid for it through a combination of state grant money, the city's general fund and money from a 2018 business tax; so stated the department Wednesday.
Residents near the designated tent areas have expressed anger and raised complaints about pests and drug use in the spaces.
The executive director of the city's Coalition for the Homeless, Jennifer Friedenbach, said San Francisco made the right decision at the beginning of the pandemic to create the program, but she said the program should be expanded at the current rate. Instead, she called for investing that money in more stable options, such as housing subsidies.
It is necessary to understand that indoor shelters can cost millions of dollars to build and operate, while affordable housing can cost at least $700,000 per unit. Both proposals could take years to build.
New research published today by the California Policy Lab -California Policy Lab-points out that San Francisco is experiencing a unique and dramatic exodus, which is causing a 50 to 100 percent increase in Bay Area immigration to some counties in the Sierras.
And it is that, contrary to suggestions of a mass exodus from California, most of the movements in 2020 occurred within the state.
California departures in 2020 largely mirrored historical patterns, while the largest statewide change was a decline in people moving to California.
Using a new dataset of quarterly credit bureau data, the research team analyzed where Californians in each county moved to after the pandemic in March 2020.
"While a mass exodus from California clearly did not occur in 2020, the pandemic did change some historical patterns, for example, fewer people moved into the state to replace those who left," explained author Natalie Holmes, a researcher at the California Policy Lab and graduate student at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
For Evan White, executive director of the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley, "some people seem to be concerned about the fiscal implications of wealthy people leaving the state, but we don't yet see any dramatic evidence that wealthy households are fleeing California in droves."
He added that, unfortunately, because the state relies heavily on income taxes from the "super-rich," the departure of even a small number of wealthy individuals could negatively affect revenues if they are not replaced with new entrants.
This is the first published analysis using a new dataset of quarterly residency and credit information that California Policy Lab will use to inform the state's understanding of mobility, wildfire impacts, financial wellbeing, and student loans.
Among the findings in the study, it noted that the proportion of people moving out of state has grown slightly since 2015, from 16 percent to 18 percent, a trend that continued in 2020 without a marked increase.
Historically, the document details, the number of people leaving California follows the number of people entering the state; however, the pattern diverged in the fourth quarter of 2020, when 267,000 people left the state and only 128,000 entered.
Similarly, the study notes that there is no evidence that wealthy households are leaving the state in droves. "Their exit rates follow trends in less affluent areas."
He also highlighted that San Francisco's net departures from the end of March through the end of the year increased 649 percent compared to the same period in 2019, from 5,200 net departures to 38,800.
Also, about two-thirds of the people who moved out of San Francisco stayed within the 11-county Bay Area economic region, and 80 percent remained in California.
Notably, counties in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and other parts of Northern California saw huge increases in inflows of former Bay Area residents, with 50 percent and in some cases 100 percent more immigrants in 2020 compared to 2019.
Tomorrow is International Women's Day and a few days ago we woke up to find the National Palace and other buildings, some of them listed as historic monuments, surrounded by steel fences. At night (or was it the early hours of Saturday morning?) we woke up to the shocking spectacle of hundreds, perhaps thousands of names of women victims of femicide across the country that feminist collectives painted in white letters on top of the ill-fated steel. I don't know if there are names of trans women; I hope there are, because as I wrote here a few days ago, this struggle is for all of them and for all of them.
Definitely, the image of the National Palace with its billboards full of the names of women murdered by the capitalist patriarchy is a reminder that we are here, for them, and that we will not remain silent.
National Palace with the names of the victims of femicide. Santiago Arau. Source: Twitter
I don't pretend to teach feminism to anyone; I don't have the reading or the experience to do so. That's why this text is about books, which are among the things I enjoy and treasure most in life.
I am not going to get into discussions about whether this or that text is more academic, or more problematic, or is already outdated, or does not meet the theories. queer. I'm not going to do that because these are very different books, not necessarily academic or aimed at specialist readers; indeed, there are a couple that are more for children and teenagers. Some of these texts may not have been written with the intention of appearing on a list of feminist books, and their authors may not necessarily agree with each other. They're not all new releases either (of course!) But I chose them because I think they can give a good overview of the reasons for our rage.
I mean, in case anyone still has doubts.
We/Weby Valeria Gallo and Ana Romero
In this book, author and illustrator make a journey through all the prohibitions and obligations attributed to human beings throughout history for the simple fact of having been born with this or that biological sex, to reach the conclusion that, at the end of the day, we are all simply people.
Rare. Essays on love, the feminine, the creative will, by Brenda Rios. Turner.
2. Raras. Essays on love, the feminine, the creative will, by Brenda Ríos
From Becky G, to Anaïs Nin, from Anne Sexton to Carson McCullers, from Amy Winehouse to Clarice Lispector, from Emily Dickinson to María Moreno, these essays by Brenda Ríos are a scrutiny of the feminine and its circumstances in relation to the creative act: everyday life with its caring for children and tending to the home, loving passion, the expression of open and joyful sexuality, addictions, self-imposed confinement, the punishment of patriarchy in the form of the denial of just recognition, are just some of the lines that intersect in the stories of these women.
Tsunami 2. VV.AA. Edition and Prologue: Gabriela Jáuregui. Sixth Floor
3. Tsunami 2, VV.AA. Edition and Prologue by Gabriela Jáuregui
Marina Azahua, Lydia Cacho, Dahlia de la Cerda, Diana del Ángel, Lía García (La novia sirena), Valeria Luiselli, Fernanda Latani M. Bravo, Luna Marán, Sylvia Marcos, Ytzel Maya, Brenda Navarro and Jumko Ogata could not be more different from each other. And therein lies the richness of this book. A few weeks ago we interviewed Gabriela Jáuregui, Lía García La novia sirena, Fernanda Latani M. Bravo and Jumko Ogata for this same space; we invite you to read so as not to repeat ourselves: https://lalibretadeirmagallo.com/2021/02/01/tsunami-2-por-la-necesidad-de-escuchar-otras-voces/
Breaking in Other Ways. Filmmakers, journalists, playwrights and performers in contemporary Mexico, by Adriana Pacheco Roldán (Coord). Literal Publishing/Hablemos, escritoras/Ediciones Eón.
4. Breaking in other ways. Filmmakers, journalists, playwrights and performers in contemporary Mexico, by Adriana Pacheco Roldán (Coord)
Just out of the oven, this book gathers four essays by different academics and artists: Maricruz Castro Ricalde, Gabriela Polit Dueñas, Fernanda del Monte Martínez and Artemisa Téllez, a prologue by Cristina Rivera Garza, an introduction by Adriana Pacheco Roldán -who is the compiler and also the creator of the project of diffusion of women writers in Spanish, Hablemos, escritoras- and an appendix that includes names, date and place of birth, and genres of more than 300 contemporary Mexican women writers.
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Salamandra Editions
5. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
In a country, in the not too distant future, women have lost all their freedoms and privileges and are organized by castes, according to their ability or inability to conceive and give birth. Maids, like the protagonist Offred, are passed from one family to another to serve as human incubators, which means, of course, being raped by the heads of families. When Margaret Atwood was asked if she considered her novel to be a feminist book, she replied, "If that means an ideological treatise in which all women are angels and/or victimized to such an extent that they have lost the ability to make moral choices, no. If it means a novel in which all women are angels and/or victimized to such an extent that they have lost the ability to make moral choices, no. If it means a novel in which they have lost the ability to make moral choices, then no. If it means a novel in which women are human beings - with all the variety of personalities and behaviors that implies - and are also interesting and important and what happens to them is crucial to the subject matter, structure and plot of the book... Then yes."
Burning Fear. A manifesto, by Colectivo Las Tesis, Planeta.
6. Burning Fear. A manifesto, by the Las Tesis Collective
Last year, a couple of months before the pandemic forced us to lock ourselves in our homes (the lucky ones, because many people had to keep going out to get their daily bread), we started to hear everywhere: "And it wasn't my fault/Nor where I was or how I was dressed/The rapist is you". This is part of the lyrics of the performance A rapist in your way, by the Chilean collective Las Tesis, formed by Dafne Valdés Vargas, Paula Cometa Stange, Lea Cáceres Díaz and Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem, who compile in this manifesto some of their main postulates.Speak to by Rebecca Solnit and Mary Beard. Antelope Editions
7. Speak. Mary Beard/Rebecca Solnit
This small - in size, but not in impact - book published by Ediciones Antílope, brings together the essays "Men Explain Things to Me" (2008) by Rebecca Solnit and "The Public Voice of Women" (2014) by Mary Beard, published together for the first time in Spanish, with an introduction by Margarita Velázquez Gutiérrez and a preface by Tania Tagle, as well as illustrations by Renuka Rajiv. Beard's essay grew out of a lecture she gave at the British Museum in London, while Solnit's was originally published on TomDispatch.com.
Counter-Pedagogies of Cruelty, by Rita Segato. Prometheus Books
8. Counter-Pedagogies of Cruelty, by Rita Segato
Published in Buenos Aires in 2018, this book brings together the reprinting of the three original lectures of the Counter-Pedagogies of Cruelty with a fourth one, called Frente al espejo de la reina mala, which according to its author, although it was not given in the same cycle as the previous ones, at the Free Faculty of Rosario, "includes the main counter-pedagogy of cruelty: the bond, affection, friendship". It also includes a brief introductory prologue by Segato herself and a presentation.
A series of possible circumstances surrounding a working class Mexican woman, by Yolanda Segura. Almadía
9. Series of Possible Circumstances around a Working Class Mexican Woman, by Yolanda Segura
This poetic essay by Yolanda Segura is the story of Eloísa, a woman born in the 1940s, whose dreams, desires and aspirations are dashed time and again by her condition as a "middle-class" woman as capitalism grows ever more savage and takes its fiercest revenge on women's bodies.
Good night stories for rebellious girls. 100 Extraordinary Mexican Women. VV.AA. Planeta
10. Good night stories for rebellious girls. 100 extraordinary Mexican girls. VV.AA.
After the success of the previous three issues, Planeta dedicates this issue of the Goodnight stories for rebellious girls... to Mexican women. In its pages you can find from the 68 activist Ana Ignacia Rodríguez "La Nacha", to the writer Inés Arredondo; the painter and poet María del Carmen Mondragón, better known as Nahui Ollin or the heart surgeon María del Sol García Ortegón; the actresses of the golden cinema María Félix and Dolores del Río and the activist Hermelinda Tiburcio.
Nigra Line, by Jazmina Barrera. Almadía
11. Linea Nigra, by Jazmina Barrera
In this biographical essay, Jazmina Barrera explores pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding from her own experience, but also networks with other writers and visual artists who have explored the female body in full transformation through these stages.
Dear Ijeawele. How to educate in feminism, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Random House Literature
12. Dear Ijeawele. How to Educate in Feminism, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What began as a letter to a friend who had just had a baby, and asked Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her advice on how to educate her on feminism, became almost a classic when the author decided to publish it in the form of an essay, corrected and expanded.
Water of Lourdes. Being a woman in Mexico, dand Karen Villeda. Turner.
13. Water of Lourdes. Being a woman in Mexico, by Karen Villeda
Based on the death in unclear circumstances (it is not known if she committed suicide or was the victim of femicide) of an aunt with whom she shared her first name, Karen Villeda writes a biographical journalistic essay about the violence that is exercised both in her homeland, Tlaxcala, and throughout Mexico, towards women's bodies.
The water pit. Disappearances and femicides in the Remedios River, by Lydiette Carrión. Debate.
14. La fosa de agua. Disappearances and Feminicides in the Remedios River, by Lydiette Carrión
For six years, Lydiette Carrión dedicated herself to reporting on the disappearances and femicides of women and girls in the metropolitan area of Mexico City and the suburbs of the State of Mexico. She was struck by the number of disappearances she documented in Ecatepec and Los Reyes Tecámac, in the State of Mexico. The water grave documents the cases of at least ten teenage girls who disappeared in that area. Some of their bodies were found in pieces, in black bags, in the Remedios River.
Three students from Casa Circulo Cultural and Metro Tae Kwon Do, in Redwood City, took the first stage of their outdoor black belt exam this Saturday with masters Gerardo Ortiz (5th Dan) and Henry Villar (4th Dan).
It takes a person four to six years of arduous and constant training to become a black belt. "Due to the pandemic we had suspended the exams, but today we resumed outdoors, with social distance and using masks, so that students do not fall behind. In addition to these children continued training with great effort via Zoom from their homes," said the teacher Ortiz.
It took Eliot six years to reach his 1st Dan black belt exam. He started training taekwondo and is now 12 years old. Neal and Sofia were tested for 2nd Dan.
Taekwondo, explained Master Ortiz, provides enormous benefits to children, adolescents and adults. "This sport forms human beings with discipline, perseverance, and high self-esteem, in addition to serving as an instrument of self-defense.
However, obtaining the black belt is a great achievement that very few reach. "I estimate that out of a hundred children who start training taekwondo, between one and two will reach the 1st dan black belt," said Master Ortiz. "Moving up to second and third dan is even more complicated. Possibly, one out of every 500 taekwondo students reaches these levels.
"Whether a child gets a black belt depends not only on his or her own hard work, but also to a great extent on the parents, since they are the ones who should support and motivate their children. Many parents keep their children jumping from one activity to another, and that's not a bad thing, but that way the children don't go deep into anything or learn to complete what they start," said Ortiz, who began training the sport as a child in Mexico.
However, explained Master Ortiz, all students who train taekwondo, regardless of the belt they reach, get a benefit that is usually for life.
The California Governor Gavin NewsomOn Thursday afternoon, the President signed an executive order extending authorization for local governments to halt evictions of commercial tenants affected by the COVID-19 pandemic until June 30, 2021.
The order also extends protections against excessive price increases for emergency supplies and medical supplies in the midst of the ongoing emergency response to the pandemic, which will be in place until September 4.
Newsom noted that the executive order comes as a result of the Legislature declaring its intent to protect residents from price hikes during states of emergency, as it did last March 4, 2020, when such a situation was proclaimed in California as a result of the threat of COVID-19.
He recalled that the March 4, 2020 State of Emergency Proclamation triggered certain protections against excessive price gouging set forth in Penal Code 396, and Executive Orders issued pursuant to the Emergency Services Act-including Executive Orders N-44-20 and N-78-20-which have implemented further protections against price gouging.
He stressed that to combat the spread of COVID-19, support to ensure that all Californians maintain uninterrupted, reasonable access to medical and emergency supplies remains essential.
He added that, in addition to the protections against excessive price increases provided by state law, numerous local jurisdictions have determined that promoting stability among commercial leases is necessary to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and, therefore, have enacted restrictions on lease-related evictions.
Thus, pursuant to the provisions of Government Code section 8571, the Governor found that strict compliance with various statutes and regulations specified in this newly signed order would hinder or delay appropriate actions to prevent and mitigate the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
So, Gavin Newsom halts commercial evictions until June, evictions of commercial tenants affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
