A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
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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 re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
A re-reading of the news through an anarchist lens
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
Biden imprisoning more immigrants than Trump, Goodyear giving its workers cancer and Morocco being a coloniser.
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
Striking educators, the attempted merger of Kroger and Albertsons, Eric Adams being a terrible landlord and China's COVID restrictions
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
This week we heard about homelessness in Florida, Biden trying to trick rail workers out of sick leave, settler colonialism in Hawaii, and English fans booing their own team
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
This week we saw companies funding the destruction of the Weelaunee Forest, Trans activists preventing a TERF from speaking in so-called NYC, and the untrue news about Iran sentencing 15,000 protestors to death.
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
This week we saw Rihanna platforming Johnny Depp, the NYPD partnering with Ring Neighbors to police us even more, Elon Musk being a fascist, and the US being condemned by the UN for the Cuban embargo.
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
This week we saw ExxonMobil’s record profits, a woman unleashing bees on cops, the US government asking for a country to take the lead in invading Haiti, and the UK foreign minister telling the LGBTQIA+ fans visiting Qatar for the World Cup to respect the host nation’s criminalisation of LGBTQIA+ people
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
Marcela shares her thoughts on the Alabama prison strike, protests in Atlanta and the discontinuation of a cholera vaccine.
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
In this week's news we saw Canada calling out the United States for being awful to immigrants, Joe Biden pretending to care about people in prison for marijuana possession, Colorado running out of water and two Indigenous women being elected to the Brazilian congress.
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
This week we saw Coca Cola being a sponsor of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, people not being able to afford food because of price gouging, a Neymar endorsing Brazil’s current right wing president, Bolsonaro, and a school district in North Texas banning LGBTQI+ books
Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
