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Shayla Stonechild started the Matriarch Movement two years ago to turn the tide on the mainstream narrative regarding Indigenous women that objectifies their bodies and their culture. What started as a social media platform to amplify the voices of Native women and create a community for sharing stories of empowerment, prosperity, and resilience has in two short years become a full-fledged non-profit hosting wellness workshops and retreats specifically for Indigenous youth who don’t often see themselves reflected in the wellness space.
“I realized there was a lack of representation for Indigenous women in the state of resilience and excellence,” Stonechild says. “We’re always deemed as missing, murdered, and vulnerable, and we’re always in a state of survival. And I thought, ‘The Matriarch Movement will be like a shift and a rise and a reclamation of who we are as Indigenous people, but specifically women. ”
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In the U.S., the FDA has only banned or restricted 11 toxic chemicals from cosmetics. Meanwhile, EU law bans more than 1,300 from things like makeup, toothpaste, and shampoo that are linked to cancer, genetic mutation, reproductive harm, and birth defects. That means it’s up to us to research what goes on our skin which is our largest organ and into our bodies. That’s where clean beauty expert Beth Walker comes in.
Beth is a highly respected makeup artist and
Yoga Journal’s resident artist for cover shoots. While attending holistic esthetician school and working at natural wellness boutique Pharmica, in 2014 Beth met some of the
By STEPHANIE BARRY | The Republican | Published: April 4, 2021 (Tribune News Service) State Rep. Michael Finn recalls the last legislative breakfast he attended at the Holyoke Soldiers Home before the pandemic. It was January 2020, just weeks before an outbreak transformed the state-run facility for aging veterans into a frightening show of the power of COVID-19. The event featured the usual menu of coffee, scrambled eggs, retail politicking and speeches. While the gathering hinted at nothing of what was to come, Finn, a six-term Democrat from West Springfield, noticed an odd dynamic: Bennett Walsh, superintendent of the Soldiers Home, and Francisco Ureña, the state s secretary of veterans services, were pointedly ignoring each other.
One year after COVID outbreak at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, questions over accountability linger
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State Rep. Michael Finn recalls the last legislative breakfast he attended at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home before the pandemic.
It was January 2020, just weeks before an outbreak transformed the state-run facility for aging veterans into a frightening show of the power of COVID-19. The event featured the usual menu of coffee, scrambled eggs, retail politicking and speeches.
While the gathering hinted at nothing of what was to come, Finn, a six-term Democrat from West Springfield, noticed an odd dynamic: Bennett Walsh, superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home, and Francisco Ureña, the state’s secretary of veterans’ services, were pointedly ignoring each other.
Vaccine Rollout in Massachusetts Continues Its Rocky Pace
Taking Shots
Rob Whitten, executive director of the Leavitt Family Jewish Home, gets vaccinated in January. For the public, the process has been thornier.
February was the month all seniors in Massachusetts would finally be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Instead, it was a month of frustration.
“It’s simply inexcusable, in a state with the healthcare infrastructure and high-tech reputation we have, that the vaccine rollout was allowed to fall behind every other state so quickly,” state Sen. Eric Lesser told BusinessWest, calling the state’s scheduling website “an obstacle course with all these links and hoops to go through, instead of making it simple, like Travelocity or KAYAK or Open Table.”