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michaela mabinty deprince (1995-2024)
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today, september 13th, 2024, the ballet world lost an extraordinary dancer and woman.
michaela mabinty deprince was born on january 6th, 1995, as mabinty bangura, in sierra-leone. she was orphaned, her parents passing to due to both direct and indirect causes of the civil war in her home country. she was demonized by her caretakers for her vitiligo, being called a “devil’s child”, and suffering from other forms of neglect and abuse. in 1999, deprince was adopted by an american couple along with another girl, and they were taken to new jersey, united states of america.
her hopes of becoming a ballerina had been planted when she found a ballerina on a magazine cover in her home country. she didn’t know of ballet at the time, but treasured the picture and dreamed of dancing. this dream blossomed into truth when she moved to the states, being put into ballet lessons soon after her arrival. deprince was a four-time participant in youth america grand prix, one of the largest ballet competitions in the united states. she was awarded a scholarship to study at the jaqueline kennedy onassis school of ballet, the associate school of american ballet theatre.
despite facing racial discrimination and other hardships in and out of the industry, deprince persisted in her dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer. in 2012, at the age of 16, she became the youngest member of dance theatre of harlem, and the next year, she joined the junior company of the dutch national ballet. she soon rose through the ranks, joining the main company and attaining the rank of soloist. she was the first dancer of african origin to ever join the company, and a shining advocate and role model for black women in ballet.
her other accomplishments include being an ambassador for war child holland, a dutch organization working to improve the wellbeing and resilience of children directly affected by war. she visited uganda and lebanon through the organization. she also appeared in beyoncé’s 2016 music video for ‘freedom’.
she will dance among all the stars in the sky. rest in peace beautiful michaela mabinty, you are already so missed. ♡
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Best books you've read written by women? I hate reading stuff written by men lately...
Fiction(ish)
The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Paris, When It's Naked, Etel Adnan
Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
My Sister, The Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
The Doll's Alphabet, Camilla Grudova
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
The People in the Room, Norah Lange
Água Viva, Clarice Lispector
Collected Stories, Clarice Lispector
The Empty Book, Josefina Vicens
Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Waves and Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Non-Fiction:
Second-hand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
Living, Thinking, Looking, Siri Hustvedt
Feel Free: Essays, Zadie Smith
The Need for Roots, Simone Weil
Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg
An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
Poetry:
The War Works Hard, Dunya Mikhail
Barefoot Souls and A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor, Maram al-Masri
Tell Me and Wild Nights, Kim Addonizio
What the Living Do, Marie Howe
What We Carry, Dorianne Laux
Extracting the Stone of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik
Poppies in Translation, Sujata Bhatt
The Neverfield: A Poem, Nathalie Handal
Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women
View with a Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska
The Black Unicorn, Audre Lorde
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