Sumaya Bouhbal in Fort Washington Park. Bouhbal wears a vintage Jil Sander jacket, Luar top, Willy Chavarria jeans, and Casadei shoes. Photographed by Carlos Jaramillo; Styled by Marcus CorreaLast July a subway station in New York City’s Washington Heights went viral on Instagram as transit riders captured video footage of massive flooding after a rainstorm. The deluged station was Sumaya Bouhbal’s stop in the I have OSB Obsessive sloth disorder 2023 shirt Additionally,I will love this Heights, and for her it cemented her understanding of the huge gap between the low-income areas of the city and the gentrified neighborhoods. The intersection of climate change and underfunded infrastructure and the impact on low-income residents needed to be seen as more than just a minor inconvenience. So she began educating those on the opposite side of Manhattan, letting them know what is going on in other parts of their city via posts on Instagram and encouraging them to put pressure on local officials. Photographed by Carlos Jaramillo
Photographed by Carlos Jaramillo; Styled by Marcus CorreaMeanwhile in the I have OSB Obsessive sloth disorder 2023 shirt Additionally,I will love this Heights, Bouhbal addressed ground-level issues, filling up community fridges and passing around flyers in Spanish and English to let people know they shouldn’t fish in the Hudson River because the water quality is toxic. “Before I could finish filling up the fridge, the food was gone,” she says, noting her neighborhood has some of the highest rates of food insecurity in the city. Distributing food continues to play into the efforts of the arts-focused activist group Bouhbal founded in March 2021, called the Young Lordes Collective (YLC). The crew of young BIPOC creatives started handing out grocery kits on the street in the Heights, with healthy meal ingredients and food specifically meant for kids’ lunches.
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