Shahana Hanif, Feminist Organizer and Advocate, Is Running for New York City Council

by Tanaïs, in Teen Vogue

“I haven't lost hope,” Shahana Hanif wrote to me in an email, just after New York had shut down to suppress the coronavirus. “I feel reenergized…. With lupus, 12 years in, I've built up strong discipline on hope, change, and presence. Disability justice activists and healers have set up abundant ways to get through this.”

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