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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in that way, as distractions, as commodities, as expendable.
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all of
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haven't talked to me in
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I know that sentiment of being the gateway between Black communities, Black families, and medicine for so long, just the distrust, the misunderstanding, the miscommunication, the lack of communication.
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And having to play that role as mediator, even for an ex-partner, when you're still grieving that loss, to step into that role, I can only imagine the difficulty there.
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The way we chose to close out against this backdrop was talking about new life and the
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birth and what that means, especially for our community.
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You know, I was thinking more, I was thinking a lot kind of existentially about how throughout years of oppression that Black people continue to live and continue to thrive and
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how birth is kind of like a very poignant manifestation of that and the mix of the realities of black women giving birth today and what that means, especially giving birth to sons and also daughters in a society such as this.
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It was a lot, but also very beautiful.
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and hopeful.
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you know
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and
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And that option is not always easy.
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Yeah, no, I loved that piece and the complexity of grappling with having a son.
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And I believe she found out she was pregnant on the day that George Floyd was murdered, which really just kind of shapes that whole experience and
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level of anxiety I can only imagine.
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