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      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Absense of August
      • Art fight Collection
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      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • My Experience Being Painfully Insecure.
      • An Age-Old Question
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      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • Watership Down
      • The Black Phone 2: More is Less
      • How Fish Became Gods
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      • The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love
      • Deathbott Chapter 5
      • Is it Possible to Separate Art From the Artist?
      • Take Things Seriously
      • Blood-Covered "Love"
      • Sunflower
      • Iron Lung Review
      • Night In the Woods Analysis: The Hole At The Center Of Everything
    • 3.26 >
      • My Beautiful Spring
      • I, Who Have Worn Many Faces
      • And I Wonder (Kanye West)
      • Danganronpa Trial 3's: They Suck
      • Deathbott Chapter 6
      • YOLO OR YËAT
      • It's time to start indulging
      • Anybody can be Spider-Man
      • Arrow Through The Chest
      • Creativity Is A Burden On The Creative
      • Dear Jane Doe
      • Invisible Thread
      • What Could I Be
      • Ramadan
      • Weather Boy
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      • Invisible
      • Strength in Words
      • If He Loved Me
      • The Pain That I Love
      • Love is Not For People Like Me
      • ULTRAKILL (Media Review)
      • Firebreak
      • Penny
      • Deathbott Chapter 7
      • 5 Misconceptions of Islam
      • Is Love Childish?

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​BALM: AFTER HOURS Podcast

After 2 years offline, the BALM: After Hours Podcast is back for a second season! Check out our most recent episodes below:

Episode 1: The Brooks Student Experience

Featuring
Miriah Bradley
Lucia Alvarez
Larne Patterson
Trey Sherrod


Music
Oreocenturion45 - Airoh Pue

EPISODE 2: The Juniors


​Featuring

Cherish Lewis
Juan Taylor
Ashya O'Connell

Music
OREOCENTURION45 - SYNTHESE NOSTALGIQUE

Episode 3: Friends & Family (Coming soon!)

Due to technical difficulties, Episode 3 of Balm: After Hours Season 2 will be uploaded shortly.
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  • Meet Us
  • This Month
    • BALM Radio >
      • September 2025
      • October 2025
      • November 2025
      • February 2026
      • March 2026
      • April 2026
    • Op-Eds >
      • Stay Skinny!
      • Stranger Things: Kill Your OCs
      • "Does He Know?": Do YOU Know Why Paul Dano Is So Great?
      • Creator vs. Creation: Mothers, Daughters, & The Generational Divide
      • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: How Snow Really Falls
      • Know Your Rights: What To Do Around Ice
    • CREATIVE WRITING >
      • Impermanence
      • Am I not American Enough?
      • The Moonlight Behind The Blinds
      • Acceptance Letter
      • I WIsh I was Your Son
      • Due East
      • Once For The Moon
      • turn off the lights, close your eyes, and pretend i'm a real boy
      • Broken Nail
      • Midnight Confessions
      • The Pencil In My Hand Does Not Move
      • Chloropromazine Chapter 1
      • One
    • Cooking Corner
    • Artist Corner
    • Media Reviews >
      • TV SHOW REVIEW: Beastars
      • MOVIE REVIEW: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
      • SONG REVIEW: "Lover, You Should’ve Come Over"
    • Sports Panel >
      • Boys Swim: Senior Highlight
      • Girls Swim: Senior Highlight
      • Girls Basketball: Senior Highlight
  • Featured Article
    • I'm Not Cute Anymore: The Adultification of Black Girls
  • Teacher's Corner
    • Teachers Corner: DeVaul
    • Teachers Corner: Ejzak: How to Combat chatGPT? Embrace the Same Anti-Authoritarian Teaching Practices We Should’ve Been Doing All Along
    • Teacher's Corner: Mr. Hazzard's Love Letter To Brooks
    • Teacher's Corner: Gordon
    • Teacher's Corner: Wilde
    • Teacher's Corner: David
    • Teacher's Corner: Ejzak
    • Teacher's Corner: Rago
  • Archive
    • 9.25 >
      • Two
      • Young and Pretty
      • Chimeras: Growing Up in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
      • My Favorite Color Used To Be Pink
      • Good Mother
      • Cancel the Mouse: Why New Disney Sucks
      • Is Hope the New Punk Rock?: Superman Movie Review
    • 10.25 >
      • Ignorance Is PURE Bliss
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
      • Petty Games
      • If You're So Wise, Why Do You Come Off So Passionless?
      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Absense of August
      • Art fight Collection
    • 11.25 >
      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • My Experience Being Painfully Insecure.
      • An Age-Old Question
      • They Hate Us Cause They Ain't Us
      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • Watership Down
      • The Black Phone 2: More is Less
      • How Fish Became Gods
    • 1.26 >
      • The Concept of One Individual
      • Deathbot Chapter 3 Part 1
      • Deathbot Chapter 3 Part 2
      • Deathbot Chapter 4
      • Police & Black Americans—The Battle for Civil Rights
      • White Hair Braiders
      • The Dust Under My Bed
      • Popular (Wicked)
      • “Carpe Diem, Seize The Day.” - A Media Review On Dead Poets Society
      • They Could've Made Anything, but They Chose This Book
    • 2.26 >
      • The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love
      • Deathbott Chapter 5
      • Is it Possible to Separate Art From the Artist?
      • Take Things Seriously
      • Blood-Covered "Love"
      • Sunflower
      • Iron Lung Review
      • Night In the Woods Analysis: The Hole At The Center Of Everything
    • 3.26 >
      • My Beautiful Spring
      • I, Who Have Worn Many Faces
      • And I Wonder (Kanye West)
      • Danganronpa Trial 3's: They Suck
      • Deathbott Chapter 6
      • YOLO OR YËAT
      • It's time to start indulging
      • Anybody can be Spider-Man
      • Arrow Through The Chest
      • Creativity Is A Burden On The Creative
      • Dear Jane Doe
      • Invisible Thread
      • What Could I Be
      • Ramadan
      • Weather Boy
    • 4.26 >
      • Invisible
      • Strength in Words
      • If He Loved Me
      • The Pain That I Love
      • Love is Not For People Like Me
      • ULTRAKILL (Media Review)
      • Firebreak
      • Penny
      • Deathbott Chapter 7
      • 5 Misconceptions of Islam
      • Is Love Childish?