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Table of Contents Introducing New BALI Board Member..................…3 Women’s History Month Op-Ed...................................5 Annual Women’s History Month Tournament....6 Women’s History Month Highlights.........................7 We interviewed……………………………………….…10 BALI Announcements………………..........................13 Feminist Five!...................…….…….………..…….….14 Happy birthday to……………………..…..............….. .16 Women’s History of the month.……..…………... .17 New Virtual After School Program……………......18 SafeBae……………..……………….…….................….. .19 Stay Insta-Informed……..…................………….. .20 Enrichment Opportunities…….…….………….......21 BALI Staff…………………………….…................….…23 BELLA BULLETIN STAFF ……………………………….....24

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ARE THERE ANY AREAS WHERE YOU, PERSONALLY FEEL LIKE YOU WOULD WANT TO SEE MORE WOMEN REPRESENTATION?

Women’s History Month Op-Ed It’s 2021: Why are Women Still Absent from my History Curriculum?

By: Adina Gerwin My school's deliberate exclusion of women from their curriculum harms all students regardless of gender. Last year, over the course of an entire two semesters in my history class we only heard about three women (Abigail Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Marie Antoinette). My teacher mentioned each woman in one part of one class period. We never wrote anything about them, we were not tested on them, and we did not use any of them to engage in larger conversations about the changing roles of women in the history we studied. Moreover, when we studied the French Revolution, we only read the Declaration of the Rights of Man despite the existence of a well-known Declaration of the Rights of Women. It's ridiculous that I need to explain to my teachers that women are fifty-one percent of the population and therefore must appear in the curriculum. Judgments teachers make about historical significance cannot only rest upon the titles people held or a list of large events, rather they must attend to what the female half of the human species does at any point in time. Since last summer, I have expended significant energy engaging teachers and department heads at my high school, demanding they include women in the curriculum. I have written emails outlining why it's not ok to just focus on men and their great deeds. I mean I know that men had a monopoly on titles and are generally the leading “historical figures,” but there is more to history than just studying the male leaders.

The current curriculum paints the picture that women rarely influenced daily life, big events, or anything significant in history. Needless to say, this is simply untrue. Today, I have to take an honors history seminar specifically about gender and class to learn about women's struggles and lives. In this class, we examine essential secondary literature from the past two hundred years, often about historiography. Unfortunately, the majority of those authors are men, making it clear they are and have been shaping the documented history and subsequent narrative. When women are utterly absent from our classrooms, it sends a clear message to students that women are insignificant and their lives were unimportant. But, strong women like Bella Abzug, Flora Tristan, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, and even the girls at BALI prove that this is entirely false. People will record the name of Kamala Harris as the first female vice president, but will they write and, more importantly, teach about the struggles it took for her to get there? Or they will mention the historic campaigns of Ossef and Warnock, but they might omit the essential and critical work Stacey Abrahams did years in advance which produced those results. We cannot let curriculum keepers exclude Stacey Abrams from the election in Georgia or other female narratives even if it's about daily life such as motherhood, reproductive choices, health, or family structures. This women's history month, pay special attention in your class, notice if and how women are portrayed in your studies, and then say something. We all have a right to shape and be included in the narrative, and we must protect that right for ourselves and for the future generations of young female leaders.

ANNUAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH TOURNAMENT

Women’s History Month Highlights Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, A Black woman from North Carolina will go down in history for leading the effort to solve the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Kizzmekia 30 days after being nominated by President Corbett is a Trump, Amy Coney Barrett was officially research fellow sworn-in as a Supreme Court Justice on October scientificMyles lead This past March,July officers Brettand Hankinson, On Wednesday, 29,undoubtedly Mexico’s Court 27th. 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In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, reimagines the gender binary. mother, Leonie, is in constant with and herself and those She is homeland and confronts theconflict site where her people, andaround other her. indigenous Alix Chamberlain is a woman who When gets what she wants and hasmilestones made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing America achieves of brutal progress toward full and equal black black and describes her children's father is in white. Embattled in ways that reflect the reality of her circumstances, she families, essentially From herbook memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings incare the T.R. Reid hisdisappeared. purpose writing this to “search the developed world for effective health other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the native movement, tobut the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s life withracist participation in democracy, the systemic response isdrug a consistent wants torights be atake better mother, can't putthat her children above her own needs,personal especially herintertwines use. systems and lessons from the ones work best.” Not surprisingly, Reid finds positives and negatives in Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, backlash thatsystems rolls woman back thoselate wins. We Are child, Notfashion. Yet Equal examines five these moments: The endcrowd of the many of the he evaluates in an His conclusion thatofall of these other plans seeing a young with aunbiased white accuses Emira of kidnapping Briar.anger A smallspend illuminating ablack spiritualityout that connects her to her ancestors and thrums two-year-old with the quiet of living When the children's father is released from packs herthe kids andoutputs a friend into her car drives north "Thank we have Alok. And I'm learning aLeonie thing two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning less on health care administration theprison, United States, achieve better than the US and system, and Civil War and was than greeted with Jim Crow laws; promise of new opportunities in the North gathers, aGod bystander films everything, and Emira is furious andor humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. in the ruins ofReconstruction injustice. to the heart ofand Mississippi and theater Parchman the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another boy, the actor, singer, Broadway performer cover citizens their countries isFarm, irrefutable. duringallthe Greatwithin Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the ghost of aherself dead inmate whobroke, carries allwary of the the South with him in too has But Emira is aimless, and of ugly Alix'shistory desire of to help. At twenty-five, shehis is wandering. about to loseHe her health

“An American Sunrise is full of celebration, crisis,Board brokenness and healing, with poems that rely on South; the Supreme Brown of Education decision waswitty met with thetoshutting “Not many writers Court's of any landmark ilk… can1954 match T.R.v.Reid’s ability to bring a light, touch really something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love. insurance and hasthis no idea what toI feel do with her life. When the Smith, video ofGrammy Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, bothand "When reading book, all is kindness."--Sam and Oscar award-winning singer lyric techniques like repetition, avoidance of temporal specifics and the urge to speak down offind public schools thethat South; the Civil Rights Act ofthink 1964they andknow Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to serious topics–like health policy around theupend globe.”–New America Foundation women themselves onthroughout a crash course will everything they about themselves, and each songwriter collectively…” laws with that disenfranchised millions of African voters and the a War on Drugs disproportionately other. WithWard's empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Agebexplores the stickiness of that transactional Rich distinctive, lyrical language, Sing,American Unburied, Sing rings archetypal road novel into rural relationships, what it America. means toTimes make someone "family," and the reality of violence being a grown up. It the is a searing —Daisy Fried, Nand ew York twenty-first century targeted the of President ledcomplicated an outburst including death of "A fierce,blacks; penetrating, andelection empowering call forObama change."-Ktoirkus Reviews, of starred review debut for our times.

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

“However eternal its concerns, Sing, Unburied, Sing is perfectly poised for the moment. It combines aspects of the American road novel and the ghost story with a timely treatment of the long aftershocks of a hurricane and the opioid epidemic devouring rural America ... It is Ward’s most unsparing book.” - Parul Sehgal, New York Times

“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, through words.” ― Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Artist(bornand activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates the Jesmyn Ward April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and an associate how professor of English atnormativity Tulane University. Shegender won thebinary 2011 National Bookcreativity Award for Fiction for her of the represses and inflicts second novel Salvage the Bones and won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for

physical and emotional violence.

her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. She also received a 2012 Alex Award for the story about familial love community in facing Hurricane Katrina.from She isIndia, the only woman and Theand author, whose parents emigrated writes about only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice.

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 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 how they express themself. ofbecame nonconformity leads to an University of Michigan. Shortly afterwards,Punishment she and her family victims of Hurricane Katrina.

inseparable link

between and shame. Vaid-Menon challenges familiar arguments Tired gender and traumatized, the family was eventually given shelter by another white family down theagainst road. Wardgender went on to work at the University of New Orleans, where her daily commute took her through the neighborhoods ravaged by the

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 Bleeds . an accessible

navigation experience from one analysis to the next. The prose maintains a

In 2008, just as Ward had decided to give up writing and enroll in a nursing program, Where the Line Bleeds was conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking with a best friend. At the accepted by Doug Seibold at Agate Publishing. The novel was picked as a Book Club Selection by Essence magazine and

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

Women’s History of the month: MARCH

Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of seven established. York City to the funeral Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. December 10, 1938 November 14,victims 1903 of the Triangle unidentified focusing16, on 1916 healthcare and education in the October Shirtwaist Company fire in late March. Israel and the U.S. April 5, 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, therights citizen to become aupholds saint.civil arrest sparks the modern Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second woman toUS. play baseball in November 13, 1938 movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the which guarantees women thepitches right the all-male minor leagues, December 1, 1955 Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition game against the N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a the center for October 24,and 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees strikes out both Babe February 27, 1922 African-American women’s woman to own a seat on the history, N.Y. Stock Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange. 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 neutroninstar. Fifteen the House of October 4, 19761967 Representatives form the signs the February President24, Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. discrimination in employment. April 19, 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 Mary McLeod Bethune opens her firstNew The Convention, the bill allowing women to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 opens. milesinon women the right to vote. England Female Medical School, school for African-American students country’s first women’s rights convention, December 10, 1869 horseback in middle of the night to November 1,the 1848 February 12, 1869 Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York warn the3,American militia that the British October 1904 Women’s Rights Movement. Mary McLeod Bethune createsaka theNellie National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, Bly, 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, the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 5,1777 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 Lewis and in Independence Hall present the Vice October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. President with1870 the of theDays. Rights November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, 1805 July 4, Quimby 1876 becomes the first woman to Harriet fly airplane across the English Channel. 16 an women from the National Women’s Party

were arrested April 16, 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

represent the U.S. as a foreign minister Althea Gibson is the first African American when she is appointed as envoy to woman player to win a Wimbledon title in Denmark. women’s tennis singles. April 13, 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 Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). concert for more than 75,000 Lincoln Skating championship. Women’s International Leagueatfor Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 Memorial. February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is1961 awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Prize. Cheek, Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Marie Opening ofHiatt, the National Museum ofU.S. 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., 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 museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American mother 17 October 11, 1984 the Episcopal December 1993 artists. February 1,17, 1978 and first thirdwomen American woman topriests. fly into space. April 7, 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984

Looking for Enrichment Opportunities? Looking for Enrichment Opportunities? American Museum of Natural History various teen programs run through the American Museum of

Black Natural Girls Code Historyoffers programming and events in coding for African American girls. Black Girls Code offers programming and events in coding for African American girls. Black Girls Code offers and eventsand in coding for African American girls. Brotherhood/Sister Sol programming offers afterschool summer programming in relationshipBrotherhood/Sister Sol offers afterschool and summer programming in relationshipbuilding, self/global awareness, social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of building,Brotherhood/Sister self/global awareness, social justice, leadership and self/global more. Some of Sol offers afterschool and summer programingdevelopment, in relationship-building, their programs are gender-specific. their programs gender-specific. awareness,are social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of their programs are gender-specific. ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls. ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls. ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

CuriousJane Janeoffers offersclasses classesand andsummer summer programming programming in Curious in science, science,theatre, theatre,arts artsand andcrafts, crafts, and more for girls. and more for girls. Columbia University pre-college programs for high school students run through Columbia University. DigitalGirl, Girl,Inc. Inc. works high schools to provide provideinprogramming and offers Curious Janeworks offers classes andschools summer programming science, theatre, in arts and crafts, and moretech for Digital atathigh to programming inSTEM STEM and offers tech workshops forthe thecommunity. community. girls. for workshops Digital Girl, Inc. win orks at high schools to STEM andrace, offers tech for GirlBeBeHeard Heard works inhigh high schools toprovide girls about class Girl works schools to teachprogramming aboutingender, gender, race,and andworkshops classthrough through the community. theatre, and offersworkshops workshopsand and performances. performances. theatre, and offers Generation Citizen encourages civic engagement in youthand through an action civics class. Girl offers mentorship, advocacy, and lifeskills skills training forgirls. girls. GirlVow Vow offerseducation, education, mentorship, life training for Girl Be HeardEquity works in high schools to teach girls about gender, race,advocacy, and class through theatre, and Girls community leadership, andsocial social Girlsfor forGender Gender Equityoffers offersprogramming programming in in community advocacy, leadership, and offers workshops and performances. justice justicefor forgirls. girls. Girl Vow offers education, mentorship, advocacy, and life skills training for girls.

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Girls Leadership offers Parentin&statistical Daughter workshops, parent education, and summer day Girls Inc. offersoffers programming analysis, economic literacy, and community action,day Girls Leadership Parent & Daughter workshops, parentleadership education, and summer camps for girls entering grades sexual 4 and 5. education, substance abuse prevention, self-defense, and media literacy, athletics, campsSTEM, for girls entering grades 4 andhealth 5. more for girls ages 6-18.

Girls on the Run offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in Girls on the Run offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in grades 3-8. Girls Leadership offers Parent & Daughter workshops, parent education, and summer day camps for girls grades 3-8. entering grades 4 and 5.

Girls Who Code offers afterschool and summer programming in coding for middle and high Girls Who Code offers afterschool and summer programming in coding for middle and high school girls. Girls on the Run offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in grades 3-8. school girls. Girls Write NowCode offers programs in writing,in digital media, andhigh college preparation Girls Who offersmentoring afterschool and summer programming coding for middle and school girls. Girls Write Now offers mentoring programs in writing, digital media, and college preparation for girls. for girls. Girls Write Now offers mentoring programs in writing, digital media, and college preparation for girls.

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Clickon onprograms program names Click namesFor ForMore MoreInfo! Info! GOALS for Girls offers year‑round programming, a summer intensive, weekend forums, and internships

GOALS for Girls offers year-round programming, a summer intensive, weekend forums, and in STEM for middle and high school girls. internships in STEM for middle and high school girls. LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small‑group mentoring for young Latinas.

LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small-group mentoring for young Latinas. Life is Precious offers individual and groups counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and nutritional

Life is Precious offers individual and group counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and and fitness activities to prevent suicide among young Latinas. nutritional and fitness activities to prevent suicide among young Latinas. Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and advocacy, as

Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and well as mentoring for girls in grades 6‑12. advocacy, as well as mentoring for girls in grades 6-12. Northeast Regional Alliance (NERA) MedPrep Program a preparatory program for students between

NYC GREAT! offers programming and mentoring in college and career readiness for high junior high and college who wish to pursue careers in the medical field. The NERA MedPrep program has school girls. partnerships with five medical institutions including the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

NYU GSTEM is a six-week summer program for high school girls during the summer between their junior and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects. NYC GREAT! offers programming and mentoring in college and career readiness for high school girls.

Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer afterschool NYU GSTEM is a six‑week summer program for high school girls during the summer between their junior programming in physical activity and healthy living. and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects.

Sadie Nash Leadership Project provides afterschool and summer programming in leadership Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer after‑school programming in and social justice for girls ages 14-22. physical activity and healthy living.

Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues faced by young faced bywomen of color. young women of color.

Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and a free summer enrichment program for college students media programming for girls ages 13-19. Summer Health Professions Education Program pursuing health professions.

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers afterschool and summer music programing for girls. The Whitney Museum of Art arts programs and events for teens at the Whitney Museum of American

YWCA provides programming in leadership and advocacy, STEAM, career and college Art. exploration, and more for girls. Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and media programming for girls ages 13‑19. Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers after‑school and summer music programming for girls. Young Women's Christian Association an organization that informs women on societal issues that affect them and encourages them to vote

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