Marcela Onyango, Author at Shado Magazine

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Marcela Onyango

JoinedApril 14, 2021

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Marcela Onyango is a stand-up comedian and writer based in Brooklyn. She was born in Kenya and raised in Texas. She currently hosts Feel the News, a short humorous news show on TikTok. She’s been featured in the Black Women in Comedy Festival and The Laughing Devil Cup Festival. Her humor writing has been published on Slackjaw.

A week of Kamala Harris losing the elections, mud being thrown at Spanish politicians and insurance companies hiring companies to decline medical procedures

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

A week of Hurricane Helene, a rent strike in Kansas and the NYPD shooting people over train fares

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

A week of a judge blaming Breonna Taylor’s murder on her boyfriend, violence at a parade in Brooklyn and ongoing starvation in Sudan

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

A week of the Gen-Z revolt in Kenya, a Black man paralysed in a New York Jail and Sonya Massey being murdered by the police

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Alex Francis

A week of racist immigration ruling in the Supreme Court, the US government spending $98,000 a minute on nuclear weapons and the White House celebrating the killing of Palestinians

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Alex Francis

A week of police violence in student encampments, a Black child in Louisiana being held in prison and a billionaire threatening to stop funding Columbia

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Alex Francis

A week of continued war against the people of Sudan, the US stating Israel hasn’t violated humanitarian law and a US congressman seeking to defund medical schools with DEI programs

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Alex Francis

A week of the US paying for police brutality training, the UN admitting Israel might be committing a war crime and more police being deployed to the NYC subway

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

A week of national guards being deployed to the NYC subway, EU funding political repression in Senegal and a woman in Alabama being arrested for being Black

Hi, I’m Marcela: I’m a comedian, I live in Brooklyn, and I really like to tell people how to feel about the news. After wowing zoomers all over on TikTok by giving them news with a sense of humour and anarchy, I decided to start a weekly Sunday newsletter to...

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

A week of NYPD lying about being attacked, Georgia’s anti-trans bill, and the US telling the ICJ to support Israel’s occupation of Palestine

Hi, I’m Marcela: I’m a comedian, I live in Brooklyn, and I really like to tell people how to feel about the news. After wowing zoomers all over on TikTok by giving them news with a sense of humour and anarchy, I decided to start a weekly Sunday newsletter to...

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

A week of Columbia University not caring about Palestine, Sudan starving, and half of America unable to afford rent

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

A week of Israel assassinating Palestinian journalists, Niana Finlayson being killed by police and the Supreme Court stripping human rights from homeless people

A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

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