2026 Women’s Strike NYC Fest at Maria Hernandez Park
On Sunday, March 8, 2026, 2026 Women’s Strike NYC Fest took place at Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick, Brooklyn. This year’s event had the slogan of “Care beats hate. Our love melts ICE,” which was said by people in attendance periodically on a unusually warm day. March 8th is International Women’s Day and many of the organizations centered on political organizations centering women, such as Thank God for Abortion, National Women's Liberation, New York Abortion Access Fund, and Red Canary Song. There were performances, demonstrations, opportunities for learning, screenprinting, and tabling by various organizations which included New York City Democratic Socialists of America.
I stopped by the event for a few hours that Sunday and shot the above gallery on film. These images were made with Nikon F100 and Kodak Portra 35mm film or Polaroid 600.
Today, April 3, 2026 is the twentieth anniversary of when I registered the domain of thisisnotaphotograph.com. I feel extremely grateful to still be making images and publishing them online two decades later. Here’s the first ever blog post I created back on April 15, 2006.