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Women in south Queens join hundreds of
communities across the nation to rally voters
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Th e South Queens Women’s March is
bringing awareness on the importance of
voting on Election Day.
Th e organization, which was established
A young attendee holds a
sign with the names of Indo-
Caribbean women who have
died as a result of domestic
violence.
The South Queens Women’s March in Ozone Park is encouraging voters to head to the polls on Election Day.
Aminta Kilawan-
Narine, founder and
executive director
of Queens South
Women’s March.
in January 2020, hosted a signholding
event on Saturday, Oct. 17, outside
of Th e Figure Studio, located at 111-
49 Leff erts Blvd. in South Ozone Park,
in coordination with the fi ft h Women’s
March on Washington and 207 other protests
held by sister actions in cities and
communities across the nation.
Th e South Queens Women’s March
highlights gender equality issues, specifically
how women have suff ered greatly
under the Trump Administration and this
has been even more so exacerbated by the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Aminta Kilawan-Narine, founder and
executive director of the South Queens
Women’s March, said women in the U.S.
are bearing the brunt of multiple crises
— including the COVID-19 pandemic,
white supremacy and nationalism,
an ever-deepening economic disaster, a
worsening climate crisis and a family/
domestic care crisis. From
New York to California,
women are rising up to
demand a new government
of, by, and for
the people, according
toKilawan-
Narine.
“We the people
are going to
deliver a democracy
in November,”
Kilawan-Narine
said to attendees,
encouraging them
all to vote.
Kilawan-Narine is
proud that her organization
is able to
bring accessible
information to people
in the community
from all diff erent
backgrounds.
“Today, we really
wanted to do
something, even
if it’s small, in
south Queens because this is where we
live,” Kilawan-Narine said. “We are joining
together as women from all walks of
life to vote in record numbers, demand that
every single vote is counted, and return our
democracy to its rightful state.”
An attendee at the event, Mohamed
Amin, founder and executive director
of the Caribbean Equality
Project, said he created the
organization aft er experiencing
a hate crime
incident with
his brother
in 2013 on
Richmond
Avenue.
Photos by Dean Moses
Th e Caribbean Equality Project off ers
counseling, mental health, immigration
support and more for LGBTQ in
Richmond Hill.
“Why do we have to leave our Caribbean,
immigrant community to access mental
health services and to seek support?” said
Amin, who realized aft er the incident that
there wasn’t a space for LGBTQ voices to
be heard, particularly immigrants.
According to Kilawan-Narine, they will
fi ght to secure the progress they have
made as a country.
“We have suff ered through years of crisis
compounded upon crisis, and we have
had enough,” Kilawan-Narine said. “We
are rising up here in our own community
to take our power back. We commit
ourselves to fi ght to secure immigrant
rights, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive
rights, women’s rights, and the lives of
black and brown people across this nation
which has run afoul at the hands of law
enforcement.”
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