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• The Allergan Aesthetics effort will focus specifically on leadership paths in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).
• "Allergan Aesthetics is first and foremost a company backed by science and fueling the STEM field with bright young minds is critical to our industry's growth," said Carrie Strom, Global President of Allergan Aesthetics and SVP at AbbVie.
• Project Accelerate girls will be offered the opportunity to learn more about the Student Internship and Early-Career Opportunities with AbbVie and Allergan Aesthetics.
• Development programs include early career programs that develop leaders of tomorrow through differentiated rotational assignments, leadership development and learning experiences.

• STEMCELL Technologies, Canada’s largest biotechnology company, is pleased to announce it will be the presenting partner of the Girls and STEAM Summit at Science World in Vancouver.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230925955247/en/
  STEMCELL Technologies, Canada’s largest biotechnology company, is pleased to announce it will be the presenting partner of the Girls and STEAM Summit at Science World in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• "At Science World, we're committed to providing 'Science for All,' and that includes breaking down barriers that keep girls and women from fully participating in STEAM fields," said Tracy Redies, President and CEO, Science World.
• We're thrilled to create a platform where young women and girls in our community can be inspired by accomplished women with exciting careers in science."

• NEW YORK and MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, preeminent girls' leadership organization Girls Inc. and leading digital mental health provider Learn to Live announced a partnership to make clinically proven mental health services available free to Girls Inc. participants aged 13 and above.
• Mental health problems facing teenage girls and young women have grown alarmingly over the past decade.
• "Now, more than ever, empowering and supporting teenage girls and young women is a vital step towards combating the prevailing mental health epidemic," said Dale Cook, Learn to Live co-founder and CEO.
• Together, we can champion the mental health of our girls and young women, ensuring their voices are heard, their needs are met, and their potential is unleashed."

• Mercifully, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, But The Girl, is effervescent on the page.
• As the narrator says,
  I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English: it hurt me, and it gave me acute pleasure.
• I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English: it hurt me, and it gave me acute pleasure.

Telling it slant

• This self-awareness of movement against expectations infuses the book’s unapologetic over-sharing through the chatty, first-person narration with a sense of doubt and uncertainty.
• It’s a refreshing commitment to self-critique and a refusal of foreclosure.
• Read more:
  In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

Homage to Sylvia Plath

• This theme of tribute, disappointment, critique and conversation – of holding Plath close – continues as verse and refrain throughout the novel.
• For instance, Clementine, a fellow artist in residence in Scotland, attempts to paint a portrait of the narrator over a portrait of Plath.
• This probing of Plath’s work continues, as the narrator retrospectively charts her growth towards a less hagiographic and more open-eyed apprehension of Plath.
• Read more:
  Sylvia Plath's famous collection Ariel is far darker than she envisaged

Cultural cringe and unstable ‘home’

• There are the expected responses of shame and cultural cringe at Australia’s provincialism.
• But they are complicated by the unstable category of “home”, where “home” is not just Australia, but also Malaysia.
• Sometimes I wished my parents had immigrated somewhere else; being a child of immigrants always made your birth country feel so random and unnecessary.
• This particular positioning of the self also plays out in the way the female Asian body is perceived and possessed.
• Read more:
  André Dao's brilliant debut novel explores his grandfather's ten-year detention without trial by the Vietnamese government

A love letter

• This novel is also ultimately a love letter, especially to the narrator’s formidable Ah Ma, a former maid, now “a matriarch demanding the best of the best for her and for her alone”.
• It is also a love letter to the narrator’s parents, Ma and Ikanyu – an exploration of all that is inherited, all that is suffered and all that is owed.
• “To hit you is to love you,” the narrator is told after being smacked by her father when she calls her mother “a grouch”.