Author: Reggie Slater

(collaged images of Ada Lovelace, the “analytical engine”, and a letter between Lovelace
and life-long friend Charles Babbage”

As a founding person of modern computer programming, Ada Lovelace worked closely with friends like Charles Babbage, Luigi Manebrea, and so on. If you’re interested in reading more about her scientific contributions, here are some helpful links:

https://findingada.com/about/who-was-ada/

https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/2018/07/26/ada-lovelace-and-the-analytical-engine/

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/ada-lovelace-the-first-tech-visionary

Ruijie Slater (they/them)

“College Radio : It’s Not Dead” (Dec. 2021)

A Minority in STEM

You tell me that
“it must be so nice to be gifted in math”
Yet you don’t know how many nights
I spent crying at the kitchen table with my mother

You tell me that
“it must be so nice to a strong woman in stem”
Yet you don’t know how hard I fought for this seat
And now I’m not even a Woman

You tell me that
“you’re bringing in the diversity”
Yet you don’t know how tired I am
Feeling like you still see me as outside

I am so tired

I am so so tired

I know that I’m a part of the change.
I know that I’m fighting
For a future without any blueprints

I don’t need your praise
That comes off as self-survival

Just let me claim my space