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.
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
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.
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.
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