Columnist, Global Justice
New York, NY
Michelle Chen is Colorlines' Global Justice columnist. She is a regular contributor on labor issues at In These Times, as well as a member of the magazine's Board of Editors. Michelle's reporting has appeared in Ms. Magazine, AirAmerica, Alternet, Newsday, the Progressive Media Project, and her old zine, cain. Prior to joining Colorlines, she wrote for the independent news collective The NewStandard. A native New Yorker, she has also conducted ethnographic research as a Fulbright fellow in Shanghai and checked coats at a West Village jazz club. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the City University of New York and co-producing the community radio program Asia Pacific Forum on Pacifica's WBAI.
Follow Michelle at @meeshellchen.
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The Other Side of the Anchor: Where Else Do American-born Kids Belong?
by Michelle Chen on August 26 2010, 9:20AM
We accept the term “naturalization” for new citizens. What could be more natural than being accepted in the only home you’ve ever known?
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Human Rights Watch: ICE Won’t Protect Women from Sexual Abuse
by Michelle Chen on August 25 2010, 12:59PM
Human Rights Watch has issued a scathing indictment of Homeland Security’s utter failure to protect women from abuse and harassment in detention.
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Women Detainees Sexually Abused as ICE Polices Itself
by Michelle Chen on August 25 2010, 10:28AM
Sexual abuse cases at a Texas detention facility reveals ICE’s failures to protect women.
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
by Michelle Chen on August 24 2010, 9:52AM
Research shows the emotional impact of years of poverty, instability and government neglect.
Topics: Health, Schools & Youth, Schools & Youth
Wisconsin Responds to Imprisoned Women’s Mental Health Crisis
by Michelle Chen on August 24 2010, 9:10AM
The ACLU has settled a landmark lawsuit over female inmates’ mental and physical health services in Wisconsin.
Topics: Criminal Justice, On Gender
First Nations Confront Legacy of Violence Against Women
by Michelle Chen on August 23 2010, 10:17AM
Native women in Canada confront a growing number of disappearances and tragic deaths.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, On Gender
Fight Over Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Intensifies
by Michelle Chen on August 23 2010, 9:17AM
Louisiana has struck a compromise over a divisive law that mandates ultrasounds for women before they terminate a pregnancy.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, On Gender
Native Human Rights Advocate Defies Conservative Attacks in Iowa
by Michelle Chen on August 20 2010, 10:50AM
Karen Mackey, executive director of the Sioux City Human Rights Commission has stood up amid political controversy driven by the right.
Filipina Nurses See Discrimination in San Francisco Health System
by Michelle Chen on August 20 2010, 9:20AM
The California Nurses Association accused a major healthcare company of “systematic discrimination against the hiring of Filipino registered nurses.”
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
The Right’s Long, Racist History of Calling Moms Criminals
by Michelle Chen on August 19 2010, 9:52AM
The GOP’s birthright citizenship drama isn’t the first in which women of color have been cast as criminal breeders.
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Poor, Jobless, and Getting out the Vote
by Michelle Chen on August 19 2010, 9:15AM
Labor hopes to make the unemployed their own political interest group.
Trafficking Survivors Get Relief under NY Law
by Michelle Chen on August 18 2010, 12:00PM
Governor David Paterson has signed a bill that enables sex trafficking victims to clear their records of criminal convictions.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, On Gender
Groups Press Justice Department on Prison Rape
by Michelle Chen on August 18 2010, 11:23AM
Groups call for an end to the culture of impunity that looms over the incarcerated.
Topics: Criminal Justice, On Gender
Sensitive Bigotry and the “Ground Zero Mosque” Meme
by Michelle Chen on August 18 2010, 9:30AM
CNN’s Don Lemon inadvertently reveals the prejudice lurking behind objections to a Muslim cultural center near the World Trade Center site.
Topics: Mosque Mania
‘Is She Yours?’: Mixed-Race Families in the Eyes of Others
by Michelle Chen on August 18 2010, 9:10AM
Multiracial families often evoke strange looks of bewilderment from strangers, followed by the awkward question, “Is she yours?” Or the even more vexing, “Are you looking for more work?”
Topics: On Gender, Schools & Youth
Latinas Rallying For Reproductive Justice
by Michelle Chen on August 13 2010, 9:45AM
It’s Latina Week of Action for Reproductive Justice, and bloggers are sounding off about self-determination and controlling their own reproductive destinies.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Health, On Gender
It’s Not Just Bullets Scarring Chicago Public Housing Residents
by Michelle Chen on August 13 2010, 9:00AM
Urban Institute study shows years of trauma may leave families with wounds that don’t heal.
Defining the Immigrant Family: Legal Reform and Common Sense
by Michelle Chen on August 12 2010, 9:00AM
A legal analysis of the key problem that current immigration policy cannot answer: who do we call mom and dad?
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Anti-Muslim Bus Ad Set to Exploit “Ground Zero Mosque” Fear
by Michelle Chen on August 11 2010, 11:25AM
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority just gave its blessing to an anti-Muslim ad campaign, brought to you by the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
Topics: Mosque Mania, Politics
Single Women Fend for Themselves in Recession
by Michelle Chen on August 11 2010, 9:29AM
Single women of color, despite their vital economic contributions as consumers, parents and workers, bear the brunt of the economy’s decline.
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