Behind Mamdani’s campaign—and New York’s progress—stand generations of immigrant women who’ve been the city’s quiet architects of change. I tell more stories like this at Port of Entry, where we center immigrant and diaspora voices. Subscribe here: www.port-of-entry.com/p/mulling-ov...

Their work continues a long legacy of immigrant women reshaping New York—from garment workers and tenant organizers to domestic workers who won the first Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. Yet their political imagination is rarely chronicled.

From mosque basements to bodega storefronts, from Chinatown to the Bronx, these women organized in a dozen languages. They didn’t just make samosas and empanadas for campaign events.

They couldn’t fathom that older immigrant women—the aunties—were the central force behind one of the most ambitious, multilingual, working-class campaigns this country has seen. hey built the campaign’s infrastructure itself.

In my latest Port of Entry essay, I write about the politics of language, assimilation, and passing (or not passing) our mother tongues to our children.
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Bad Bunny is fluent in English — but chooses to sing only in Spanish. It’s not a limitation. It’s a statement. And it’s exposing the way English fluency is still treated as proof of legitimacy in this country.

Twenty-two percent of Americans over age five speak a language other than English at home. Yet many of us still hear, “Your English is so good,” — as if we weren’t born or raised here