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Continue reading →: Lack of Training of the Medical Staff Create an Unsafe Environment for Trans People in the U.S. Healthcare System
There were times when Samson Winsor, 29, felt like ‘an animal in a cage’ while seeking medical care. This happened a lot when doctors pulled in medical students to assist.“It’s great that they’re getting educated on men like me,” he said. But it also “still adds to that kind of…
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Continue reading →: Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment: A Story in Pictures
On April 17, 2024, student organizations at Columbia University established the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” to call out the university’s complicity in what they called “a genocide” and ask the institution to divest from Israel. The encampment lasted for 13 days and encouraged other actions at multiple universities in the US…
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Continue reading →: The Hospital that Once Was Overlooked Staten Island’s History Comes to Light
A vast stretch of greenery on Staten Island is home to soccer and baseball games, Boys and Girls Scout camps and New Dorp High School. Very few people who gather there know, however, the history of the land beneath them. The site near the borough’s Lower Bay started off as…
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