Ashleigh The student NP

I’m a nurse-midwifery student at the Yale School of Nursing, a real estate investor, and a bit of a nomad. I want to make YSN a safer place for Black students.

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Hi @lorileibovich, I have an idea that I would like to pitch for #NYTimesWell. Would you be the person I could send my idea to?

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Hey @PdotBrathw8, I promise I'm a real person! I'm a new writer, so I hope this is an ok question. But if we wanted to pitch for NYT Well, are you ok with DMs?

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

Here’s my very first published article 😊 Thank you @BusinessInsider for taking the chance!

https://t.co/QDTKSmw9Ax

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

I just had my first article published and I want to explore being a #TravelWriter. Any advice for someone just getting started?

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

@Living_Cities @Gumbo_Media I’m in New Haven, CT. Could I still write for this article?

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@Jovermyer1 @JaxsBeachLife This shows how much I’m on Twitter lol, but yes!! Zambia!

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@itsgabrielleu Would you ever consider speaking at a nursing school about how providers could be more compassionate when providing fertility care? I’m in my second semester of getting my MSN, and we’ve never talked about it.

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

@mclemoremr Lol if I was good at research, maybe I'd be at UCSF. I really did enroll because I care about my community. I chose YSN because I didn't have the money to pay for pre-reqs. And I don't pay for YSN now (not yet, at least). I'm a veteran.

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@mclemoremr But if my Black faculty are pro-weathering, who am I, as a non-practicing entry to nursing student, to say I disagree? Who am I to speak to Black profs about how weathering is harmful to the Black community? And if I did say that, what am I saying about their Blackness?

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

@mclemoremr "different to different people UP HERE." I'm from the South, so blackness is different from what I'm used to up here.

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

@mclemoremr I can ask - I'm sure they can. I don't want to waste your time with esoteric and philosophical conversation, but "Blackness" is different to different people, and it bleeds into how we feel about weathering. I think I'm a bit of a Black sheep.

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

@mclemoremr Also (and this is not just here at YSN but in other seminars as well), you're frequently referenced. And I'm not sure if I always agree with the interpretation. Sometimes, it would be nice to just learn from you instead of someone's opinions on your quotes.

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@mclemoremr @BlkMamasMatter @black_midwives Instead of "How do our practices and protols silence and ignore Black women." I feel like weathering removes the spotlight off of hospital protocols. Is there fallacy in this logic?

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

@mclemoremr @BlkMamasMatter @black_midwives Thank you! This is really helpful!

I have one last question. My personal opinion is that weathering is "soft eugenics 2021," opening the door for research that asks, "where in the Black body does racism manifest? What's different in Black women?"

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

that reflects the "racism not race" stance?

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@TPAIN wasn’t bullied for auto-tune. He was bullied for being vulnerable in rap music, for being different, and being authentic.

He was bullied for doing something that 95% of black men are too scared to do #ThisIsPop

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

I need Self care from all this self care.

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Everybody makes #SelfCareSunday out to be this grand experience. I need self care from self care. Because all of this trying to overcome the fear of vulnerability, admitting my flaws, and cutting people off is exhausting.

Im exhausted.

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

How much longer will Yale allow white students to dictate what happens to faculty? How much longer will Yale allow them their desires to outweigh ours?

[Ashleigh The student NP @student_np]

This isn’t a struggle to “adapt to roiling social change” at all. This is a lack of standard on behalf of Yale leadership. Love it or hate it, Amy Chua is a resource for students of color, and those resources at Yale are excruciatingly limited.