2023 Regeneron STS Scholar
Congratulations to BALI's very own, Hiral Chauvre. Hiral became a 2023 Regeneron STS Scholar for her project on NMDA Receptor Mutation and KCC2 Inhibition Induce Changes in Brain Development Associated With Neurodevelopmental Diseases.
Representing Hewlett High School, Hiral was selected from 1,949 applications from 627 high schools across 48 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and four other countries. Scholars were chosen based on their outstanding research, leadership skills, community involvement, commitment to academics, creativity in asking scientific questions and exceptional promise as STEM leaders demonstrated through the submission of their original, independent research projects, essays, and recommendations Amazing job, Hiral!
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An inspiring and thought-provoking personal account intertwined with political and historical analysis, Community As Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia
An inspiring and thought-provoking personal account intertwined with political and historical analysis, Community As Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia
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In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy.
as a Woman of Color, o ers a unique perspective on the struggles and uncertainties of being a woman of color in higher academic institutions.
as a Woman of Color, o ers a unique perspective on the struggles and uncertainties of being a woman of color in higher academic institutions.
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meets the eye in García-Peña’s novel Taking readers back storical facts and explanations to provide context for the features. Discrimination against women of color in academia is not a contemporary struggle, but rather one that has existed since the beginning of time. The di erence between then and now, however, is that now we are finding our voices to stand up for ourselves and raise awareness for this growing issue.
vicencio explores the lives of the undocumen singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects.
amous works. It challenges most often a verb,” an All ely romantic concep eed, community, mutuality, romance, ters, she makes connections between lessons we learn as children and how they impact our perspective of love as adults and unpacks the fraught idea that we are expected to know how to love despite the absence of instructions in society. All About Love is just one example of how bell hooks’ writing beautifully heals its readers.
has been themes in Night. eligion. The soon as the going to be his father as The home in Sighet in Hungarian Transylvania during World War II. While at first, no one believed that something like the murder of innocent men, women, and children as possible, the ravings of Moishe the Beadle, Elie’s teacher, are soon proven true. Before being transferred to concentration camps, the Wiesel family is forced to live in a ghetto within their own village.
Initially a personal hashtag posted by Brown to celebrate her personal journey with self-love, #DisabledandCute has transformed into an online community of disabled people celebrating themselves and proving that “being disabled and being cute aren’t mutually exclusive.” Like most online content created by Black creators, however, #DisabledandCute is occasionally referenced without crediting Keah Brown. So to all of our lovely BALI readers that might want to contribute to the hashtag , make sure to tag her @Keah_Maria!
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The Vanishing Half follows the lives of two twin girls, both light-skinned Black girls, who run away from home at the age of sixteen. Desiree marries a dark-skinned Black man and has a child, while Stella lives her life passing as white. The book tracks their lives across generations, as their lives branch away from each other and yet remain intertwined. It's a story that explores the intricacies of identity, family and race in a provocative but compassionate way.
Ikpi breaks open our understanding of mental health by giving us intimate access to her own. Exploring shame, confusion, medication, and family in the process, Bassey looks at how mental health impacts every aspect of our lives how we appear to others, and more importantly to ourselves and challenges our preconception about what it means to be "normal."
In context and content, “Dear Senthuran” is molded by departure and what it requires. The book is structured as a series of letters from the author to their friends, lovers, other writers, divine and human family. In them Emezi recounts episodes in their life, from their gender confirmation surgeries to purchasing a home (a place they call their “godhouse”), to betrayal at the hands of literary mentors. Each letter chronicles a tension between Western constructions of gender and “people like me: embodied but not human, terrified that
There is more than that which meets the eye in García-Peña’s novel. Taking readers back generations, it also includes historical facts and explanations to provide context for the modern-day problems the book features. Discrimination against women of color in academia is not a contemporary struggle, but rather one that has existed since the beginning of time. The di erence between then and now, however, is that now we are finding our voices to stand up for ourselves and raise awareness for this growing issue.
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“Her voice became her weapon. Her poison and perfume. You never knew which you were getting or why.” — Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
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A Latinx and Romance Language Studies professor, García-Peña has had an extensive and arduous journey in academia She grew up in the Dominican Republic until she was 12 years old when she joined her parents and immigrated to the United States. After briefly working at the University of Georgia, she was hired by Harvard atina on the tenure track at Harvard’s largest division, the Peña created a Latinx-studies secondary field and area of s for her teaching and competitive fellowships She was a to create a safe environment for her pupils was denied a tenure position at the prestigious university. When an o cial audit was conducted regarding the decision, it found that the university had given excessive weight to the concern that García-Peña’s work was more activism than scholarship during the tenure process and that García-Peña had been a victim of discrimination Although the panel in charge of the investigation strongly recommended her case be reviewed, Harvard refused to do so
Bassey Ikpi listen is a Nigerian-born American spoken-word artist, writer, and mental health advocate. Ikpi was born in Ikom, Cross River State, Nigeria, on August 3, 1976, to a Nigerian family who were originally from Ugep. She eventually moved to the States with her family when she was 13. She has appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def as opened shows for Grammy Award-winning artists. She's also the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Telling e Truth But I'm Lying. She also features on the OkayAfrica's 100 Women campaign 2020 honoree list, which celebrates women building infrastructure for future African generations.
She has since published other nonfiction essays, including a history of black dolls called "Addy Walker, American Girl" for the Paris Review, as well as a review of the 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates book Between the World and Me for The New Yorker. Vogue said Bennett's nonfiction essays "recall Ta-Nehisi Coates [with] a similar ability to contextualize the present moment in a bigoted past."
The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), Souls on Fire (1972), The Testament (1980), and many others. All of Wiesel’s novels explore different layers of the Holocaust and more broadly question how such awful events can come to be. Wiesel’s work is cherished for the thoughtful and somehow beautiful way he describes the loss of innocence in such a terrifying experience, and for this reason, Night is still a staple found in classrooms across the country Later on in his career, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace and was appointed as the first chairman of the US Holocaust memorial.
Following Harvard’s refusal, García-Peña filed several complaints with discrimination boards against the university, which are still in progress today. In 2021, she o cially resigned from Harvard and was appointed to a tenured position at Tufts University.
Whether written or spoken, Bassey is e ortlessly clever–an alchemy of intellect, humor, and pathos. Appearing on stages and screens across the world as a public speaker and TV personality, Bassey first gained public acclaim as an internationally recognized poet. In a past life, she was a featured poet on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and toured with its Tony Award-winning Broadway show.
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