Eva Moschitto

The idea for Plan C, the latest play from New York devised theater company Hook & Eye, came in 2022, when Roe v. Wade was overturned. “I just couldn’t understand, literally how it was possible…legally, how that decision came to be, and how much I had taken that right for granted,” said Carrie Heitman, co-founder and producing artistic director at Hook & Eye, in an interview. Like others, Heitman felt “pretty despondent” after the supreme court ruling.

Featured Image: Hot Gurlz Organize ‘Dykes Against ICE’ event. Photo by Zachary Blair. The crowd at The House in Bushwick bobbed, clapped, and flung bills. Chants of “F*ck ICE” rose amid the Bad Bunny and Charli XCX. Outside, it was a snowy February night. Inside, dancers circled a silver pole with seemingly impossible buoyancy: a transmac stripper in basketball shorts, a woman with mermaid hair and a flowing sheer robe. The next dancer broke into a smile as soon as she stepped onstage.

As ICE agents continue to abduct New Yorkers attending routine immigration check-ins at 26 Federal Plaza, the Adams administration continues to erode labor protections for New York’s 80,000 delivery workers, many of whom are immigrants. On August 13, Eric Adams vetoed two bills, Int. 1133 and 1135, both of which passed through city council with a veto-proof supermajority . The bills would expand landmark minimum pay laws for food delivery workers to also include those delivering groceries.