Ashley McMullen
speaker
1,095 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2020
last heard May 2023
Ashley McMullen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't even know what that means.
But at the time I remember getting my feelings quite hurt and I would ask my mom over and over again if I could start wearing my hair straight.
And after a little while she finally relented.
I think I was around the sixth grade the first time I put a chemical relaxer in my hair.
And for those of you in the audience who speak science, there's an abundance of disulfide bonds that give black hair its characteristic shape and texture and curl pattern.
And out of all the chemical bonds that make up the hair, it's these bonds that are the strongest.
So it takes an equally strong chemical to break these bonds, and that's what the relaxer is.
Each time it's applied, it allows the hair to be permanently straightened after breaking those bonds.
But even though after the process is over with, then the hair looks really great outwardly.
Inwardly the hair becomes inherently weaker, it's more fragile and
Prone to breakage.
It's harder to grow.
But I started doing this in sixth grade and I would continue to go back to the salon and I'd wear my hair straight as I grew older.
I moved away for college and I got into medical school.
I graduated as the first doctor in my family.
Yes, thank you.
And then I matched to my first choice of residency and I even got tapped to be chief residence.
Yeah, in the words of that great philosopher DJ Khaled.
All I did was win, win, win no matter what.
But that was at least outwardly.
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