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The Legacy of AntiAsian Racism in America

OP-Ed on Anti-Asian Racism in America 2020 BALI Alum, Yu Hijiya writes a beautifully-crafted piece about the anti-Asian crisis in America and what we can do to help.

Spotlight on the BALI Debate winners

BALI Debate Tournament winners

10th grade debate winners, Ruby and Aleena talk about talk about their experience in the tournament including what they enjoyed the most as well as any challenges they may have faced along the way.

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Table of Contents Inform Your Vote………………...................................3 BALI Debate Winners spotlight………...................…4 Headlines of the Month……………………………......5 Legacy of Anti-Asian Racism in America...............6 BALI Announcements………………..........................10 Feminist Five!...................…….…….………..…….….12 Happy birthday to……………………..…..............….. .14 Women’s History of the month.……..…………... .15 SafeBae……………..……………….…….................….. .16 Stay Insta-Informed……..…................………….. .17 Enrichment Opportunities…….…….………….......18 BALI Staff…………………………….…................….…20 BELLA BULLETIN STAFF ……………………………….....21

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BALI Debate Winner Spotlight

HOW WERE YOU SELECTED AND WHAT ARE SOME THINGS YOU HOPE TO CONTRIBUTE AS A BOARD MEMBER?

10th Grade 4th Speaker and Best Team "The most challenging part of the tournament was arguing the con side because the pro argued the irreversibility of climate change and how the GND would stop that."

WHAT’S YOUR NAME AND WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL?

"I think my favorite debate tournament was the second time WHAT OTHER THINGS HAVE YOU that my partner and I debated the GND topic because we BEEN WORKING ON OUTSIDE OF placed and S Cone HO O Ltwo ? out of, I think thirty, participants which felt really great."

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DO YOU HAVE ANY FUTURE and Team P L ABest N S Speaker FOR GR A DBest SCH OOL?

The hardest part of training for a tournament is doing the research and gaining an understanding of the topic because it's always the first step. Getting started is always the hardest step but then after that, you get into the swing of things and it gets easier."

"I think my favorite debate memory ever is probably my first time getting a speaker award, which was at last year's BALI tournament."

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Headlines of the Month Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, ​A Black woman from North Carolina will go down in history for leading the effort to solve the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Legacy of Anti-Asian Racism in America is Real. It's Up to All of Us to Change That.

March 29th, 2021 was my breaking point.

What seemed like a normal day changed the moment I turned on the TV to watch The Crown on Netflix as I grabbed a cup of tea.

What I saw instead was surveillance camera footage of an innocent 65-year-old Asian American woman assaulted in the daylight of New York City as two security guards watched without helping her. Not even a small sign of shock - just closing the door as nothing happened. This kind of indifference - the very act of doing nothing - by a bystander is how, in my opinion, many Asians and Asian Americans feel about the way this country treats them What does it take for my friends to acknowledge that we are not the “model minority” and we are more than those stereotypes? What does it take for the media to acknowledge that we are here and that we’ve been erased from nigh every statistic simply because the sample size is too small? What does it take for Congress and the White House to acknowledge that we are an integral part of this country, and that Asian American history is part of American history?

As a third-culture kid, my realization that I am “the other” became an inseparable part of my identity at a young age. When I was 9 years old, I moved from Japan to an allwhite neighborhood in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, where I was not only one of the very few Asian students in the school, but I also spoke no English.

This meant I had nobody to turn to when my classmates and teachers casually mocked my accent or told me I couldn’t join a game they were playing because I didn’t have sandwiches for lunch like them. It didn't take a long time to realize that my English abilities do not protect me from this kind of “casual racism”. I vividly recall being kicked and spat on by a student from another school during a school excursion, saying “People like you don’t belong here”. I understood every single word that came out of that girl’s mouth. I had no words.

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I came to an understanding from that experience that no matter how much English I can speak, or try to be like my peers, there will always be some who see me as less human.

As I grew older, I realized just how often our narratives are misinterpreted and manipulated. As a self-proclaimed world history buff, international affairs junkie, and women’s rights enthusiast, I could not ignore that my History of the Americas class lacked content about Asian-American history despite that much of the foreign policies are rooted in the dehumanization of Asians and has perpetuated anti-Asian hatred.

From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese-American internment to the treatment of South Asians post-9/11, there have been numerous policies targeting Asians. We also cannot ignore the impact that the justification of the use of atomic bombs and napalm has had on millions of innocent Asian civilians, as well as the prevalence of United States military bases which have repeatedly failed to take into consideration environmental damage and violence against women in the Asia-Pacific region. The scapegoating and vilification of Asians by the previous administration, calling COVID19 “China Virus” and lashing out at an Asian-American journalist doing her job of holding the leaders accountable, is just one part of this country’s hurtful legacy of anti-Asian racism.

Let us face the painful truth, that institutional racism thrives in a culture of silence and indifference. As a young Japanese woman, I acknowledge the fact that I am privileged and have benefited from certain oppressive systems such as imperialism. I have often been reluctant to express my own experiences with racism in words, as I know how fragile words can be; they can mend a broken heart or break it even more. I have close friends who have experienced much worse than I have, and I often felt that by sharing my own stories, I would invalidate theirs. All I seemed able to do was share an Instagram post or donate money. It made me feel powerless.

March 29th, 2021 was my breaking point. That moment told me this feeling of invalidity and silence was not protecting me - it was hurting me, my community, and probably, the world.

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I can no longer be silent about the fetishization and dehumanization of Asian women.

I can no longer be silent about the invisibility and objectification of the Asian community.

I can no longer be silent about the dangers of whataboutism in our discourse.

I can no longer be silent about how the model minority myth - something I have deeply internalized - is rooted in white supremacy and hatred.

I can no longer remain silent about the importance of solidarity among the BIPOC - as we cannot dismantle white supremacy and establish judicial equality independently of each other.

That is why I decided to write this op-ed.

I know many of you are wondering - so what can we do? Is there really anything we can do? My answer is yes. We must never give in to the black hole of helplessness that people who espouse such hateful views and conspiracy theories want us to fall into - that nothing can be done. We must channel that anger to create real change.

Real change starts from showing respect equally to your peers; Seeing us in our whole humanity and acknowledging the racial microaggressions we subconsciously perpetuate our daily lives. This means remaining consistent with your supposed commitment to social justice, including those close to you. We’ve all been there including me - reposting Instagram posts or attending protests… But if we aren’t standing up to our racist loved ones - whether it’s your parents, siblings, relatives, or other important people in your life - isn’t it just another form of silence?

Standing up to racism is a very long and complex process with a lifelong commitment to learn, grow from past mistakes, and educate our peers. It’s been a tough journey for me - a rollercoaster of emotions and self-reflection. I acknowledge the legacy of anti-Blackness within the Asian community, something I have become very aware of within the last few months. Standing up to racism also means supporting policy changes that will not only benefit you but also will dismantle structural racism - from abolishing the prison-industrial complex and demilitarization of the police to killing the Senate filibuster.

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At the same time, this journey has also been a very empowering one. Learning about activists and leaders from various backgrounds who have paved the way for equality, as well as the facts and truth to fight racism and bigotry, has given me a light of hope - although to the world I may just be one person, I have the power to create change.

I may not be American and leave this country in two months, but there is something about this country that gives me hope. It is every single one of you reading this article - especially the youth. The youth population (those under the age of 18) in this country is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. According to the Urban Institute, “the elder population is projected to grow more quickly than the youth population before 2030, but is projected to remain smaller than the youth population in 2030.” This is extraordinary because it means there’s a future. We are one of the most diverse and progressive generations in America’s history, utilizing the power of the First Amendment every day to create a powerful and fundamental change.

We are the future, and the future is in our hands. It is our responsibility to stand together and build a more perfect union as we have never seen before - by staying indifferent no longer.

Because, as Amanda Gorman said in her inaugural poem, “... there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it”.

You are the light.

I am the light.

We are the light.

And our journey has just begun...

-Yu Hijiya, BALI Class of 2020

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Leandra Ruth Zarnow is an associate professor in the Department of History and an affiliated faculty member in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Houston. Her past credits include co-editing Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920 and co-directing a digital humanities project on the 1977 National Women’s Conference which is set to debut in August 2021.

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black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump.

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“Epic in sweep precise in​Sing, its details, Good True Thaipoised shines fronts. ItTime and again, “However eternal but its concerns, Unburied,ASing is perfectly foron theallmoment. combines aspectsSunisa of the Manning resists easy nuance, for complexity, truth. An debut from American road novel andanswers, the ghost reaching story with for a timely treatment of the long for aftershocks of astounding a hurricane and the opioid epidemic devouring rural America ... ItChen, is Ward’s most unsparing book.”​ - Parul Sehgal, York Times a talented new voice.”

–Kirstin bestselling author of Bury What WeNew Cannot Take

“It’s time for a new beauty paradigm.”― Alok Vaid-Menon

“I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, “It’s beenwords.” a time of faceThis of what been victories.” through ―strange Jesmynlosses Ward,in​ThetheFire Time:should’ve A New Generation Speaks about Race Artist activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates the April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and an associate how professor of - Sunisa Manning,Jesmyn A GoodWard True(born Thaiand English atnormativity Tulane Shegender won the 2011and National Book Award for Fiction forfrom her of the binary represses creativity and inflicts The daughter ofUniversity. a white American father a Thai mother descended second Salvage Sunisa the Bones and won 2017 Book Awardand for studied Fiction for Chinesenovel immigrants, Manning wasthe born andNational raised in Bangkok at

physical and emotional violence.

her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.most She also received a 2012 Alex Award for thethis storyunique about an international school for of her academic career.

She carried familial love community in facing Hurricane Katrina.

She isIndia, the only woman and Theand author, whose parents emigrated from writes about perspective with her to Brown University where she would study English and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice.

Expository writing. how enforcement of the gender binary begins before

birth and

The first in her family to attend college, she earned a B.A. in English, in 1999, and an M.A. in media studies and

affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being

especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary. Gender assignments communication, in 2000, both at Stanford University. Ward chose to become a writer to honor the memory of her younger

After graduating from Brown, Manning moved back to Bangkok where she worked in rural development for

create a narrative person should behave, areher allowed to like Writing or wear, brother, ​who was killed for by ahow drunkadriver in October 2000.

In 2005,what Ward they received MFA in Creative fromand the

the Mae Fah Luang Foundation. According to Manning, her experience communicating with the farmers, some ​

how they express themself.

Punishment of nonconformity leads to anof inseparable linkA University ofwere Michigan.​ Shortly afterwards, she andworked her family became of Hurricane Katrina. of whom connected to nobility, that with the victims foundation inspired much the material for between gender shame.

Vaid-Menon challenges familiar arguments against TiredThai. and traumatized, the family given shelter by another white family down theas road.

Wardgender went on Good True Afterand a robust careerwas ineventually non-profit work, Manning is currently employed a teacher at UC to work at the University of New Orleans, where her daily commute took her through the neighborhoods ravaged by the Berkley Extension. nonconformity, breaking them down into four categories—dismissal, inconvenience, biology, hurricane. Empathizing with the struggle of the survivors and coming to terms with her own experience during the storm,

and slippery slope (fearforofthree theyears consequences ofher acceptance).

Headers in bold font Ward the was unable to write creatively – the time it took to find a publisher for her first novel, ​W herecreate the Line In to A navigation Good True Thai, Manning isfrom an incredibly talentedto essayist and short writer.

In most of Bleeds ​. anaddition accessible experience one analysis the next.

Thestory prose maintains a her work, Manning explores anddecided unpacks her up own identity as a luk (the Thai termtheforLine being mixed In 2008, just as Ward had to give writing and enroll in akhrueng nursing program, ​Where Bleeds was

conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking with a best friend. At the

​ race) woman, andSeibold pushesatback against the Western perspective YouSelection can findbyManning’s essays and accepted

by Doug Agate Publishing.

The novel was picked of as Thailand. a Book Club ​Essence magazine and

same time, the author's turns of phrase in moments of deep insight ring with precision and

stories her website. receivedon a Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Honor Award in 2009. It was shortlisted for the Virginia

poetry.

In one reflection, they write, “theandmost lethal part Legacy of theAward. human body is not the fist; it Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award the Hurston-Wright is the eye. What people see and how people see it has everything to do with power.” While this short essay speaks honestly of pain and injustice, it concludes with encouragement and an invitation into a future that celebrates transformation.

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Women’s History of the month: April

Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of established.

York to the funeral seven York City City to attend the funeral seven Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New of York.

December 10, 1938 November 1903 of unidentified victims the Triangle unidentified victims ofand the education Triangle in the focusing on14, healthcare October 16, 1916 Shirtwaist Company fire Shirtwaist Company fire in in late late March.

March.

Israel and the U.S. April April 5, 5, 1911 1911 February 24, 1912

Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Julyon 2, a1937 beatified, thetofirst American woman seat bus a white person; her U.S. Supreme Court the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the citizen to become aupholds saint.civil 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the arrest sparks the modern rights Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second to play November 13, 1938 second woman woman toUS. play baseball in movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the which guarantees women thepitches right the minor leagues, December 1, 1955 the all-male all-male minor leagues, pitches Presbyterian Church.

Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition an exhibition game game against against the the N.Y. N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a center for October 24, 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees and strikes outthe both Babe Yankees February 27, 1922 African-American women’s history, woman to own a seat on the N.Y. Stock Ruth Lou Ruth and and Lou Gehrig.

Gehrig.

Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange.

April 2, 1931 April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11,a1967 1979 discovery of pulsar, a rapidly December 28, (at ABC).women rotating neutron star.

Fifteen the Fifteen women in in the House House of of October 4, 1976 Representatives form the signs the Representatives February 24, 1967 President Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus for Women’s Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues.

Issues. discrimination in employment.

April April 19, 19, 1977 1977 July 2, 1964

The Utah Territorial Legislature a American Revolution heroine Sybil Wyoming isFalls the first territory topasses give FirstSeneca medical school for women, the American Revolution heroine Sybil Mary McLeod Bethune opens her firstNew The Convention, the bill allowing women to vote.

Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles women the right to vote.

England Female Medical School, opens.

Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 milesinon on school for African-American students country’s first women’s rights convention, December 10, 1869 horseback in middle of night November 1,the 1848 February 12, 1869 horseback in the middle of the the night to to Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York warn the militia that the British warn the3,American American militia that British October 1904 Women’s Rights Movement.

Mary McLeod Bethune creates thethe National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, were invading. were invading.

Council of Negro Women.

Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around the world 72 days, became 6 hours, July 19-20, 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, April 26,5,1777 1777 the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 1935 Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight.

Peace. fictional record set bytoPhineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the and in Independence Hall present the Vice Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis Lewis and October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, Clark as an President with1870 the of theDays.

Rights Clark Expedition Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. interpreter.

November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, 1805 April 7, 1805

July 4, 1876 becomes the first woman to Harriet Harriet Quimby Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel. fly an an airplane airplane across 16 women from the National Women’s Party

were April 16, April arrested 16, 1912 1912while picketing the White Capt.Suffrage Annie Fox receives the first Purple The Monument, depicting Susan B. House demanding universal women’s Heart awarded to charged aCady woman for her service Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, suffrage; they with TheFrances state ofL.were Washington passes aandwoman Dr. Willoughby is the obstructing first while under attack at Pearl Harbor.

Lucretia sculpted byNavy.

Adelaide traffic. constitutional amendment to guarantee doctor inMott, the regular U.S. December 7, 1941 at the U.S. Capitol.

Johnson, is dedicated woman suffrage.

October 15, 1948 July 14, 1917 February 15, November 8,1921 1910 The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA. July 20,Bryan 1942 Owen is the first woman to Ruth Ruth Bryan

represent the U.S. as a foreign minister represent the Althea Gibson is U.S. the first African American when she is appointed as when player she is appointed as envoy envoy totitle in woman to win a Wimbledon Denmark.

Denmark. women’s tennis singles.

April April 13, 13, 1933 1933 President’s Commission on the Status of Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 Women is exchange established to examine of a stock (American Stock Marian Anderson sings an Easter American woman to win the World Figure Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). concert for more than Lincoln Skating championship. concert for more than 75,000 75,000 atfor Lincoln Women’s International Leagueat Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 Memorial.

Memorial.

February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is1961 awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December April 9, 1939 Prize.

April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Cheek, Judith Rodin is named president ofU.S. Univ.

November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Opening of the National Museum of Opening of the National Museum of of Pennsylvania, the first woman toinhead woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Women Dr.Ivy Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle an League institution. during Challenger flight.

Washington, DC. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig)women ordained as the first devoted the first museum museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American mother 15 October 11, 1984 the Episcopal December 1993 artists. artists.

February 1,17, 1978 and first thirdwomen American woman topriests. fly into space.

April 7, April 7, 1987 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984

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