J. Escobedo Shepherd
@jawnita
Writer. Editor. Xicanista. 🇲🇽 VAQUERA forthcoming @PenguinBooks. Flaming Hydra, Pitchfork, Hell Gate, etc. From Wyoming. She/her/ella. jawnita at gmail
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Williamsburg Changes, But Toñita Still Reigns For 50 years, Maria Antonia "Toñita" Cay has overseen the Caribbean Social Club in Williamsburg. It's now the last Puerto Rican social club in Brooklyn. J. Escobedo Shepherd with the scene report: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg-c…
"The reason that I became the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to the House of Representatives is because of the work [of] people like Toñita; they paved the way for me to become that person," Rep. Nydia Velazquez told J. Escobedo Shepherd. hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg-c…
New York's summers are longer and hotter, while its prisons are older than ever before. So that means no AC...and absolutely stifling conditions. Hell Gate has teamed up with Prison Journalism Project to bring you what it's like inside NY prisons during a heat wave. hellgatenyc.com/ny-prisons-no-…
I wrote for The Nation about the cozy relationship many American journalists enjoy with the IDF even as Palestinian journalists are killed en masse by Israel's military.thenation.com/article/societ…