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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It just seems like there's something special, both frightening and beautiful about being a black mother.
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complex being
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Right?
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But I feel, you know, especially, you know, for me personally, I think, you know, from a spiritual standpoint, it is, to me, my belief is that brokenness is something that is more spiritually connected to God or at least the biblical narrative of brokenness.
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pain and suffering, at least in some ways, being a conduit to transformation and being more than what this world would have you be otherwise.
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So I feel that so much.
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And knowing that
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Throughout the suffering, particularly with my own identity as coming into my own as a black woman, especially as a black queer woman, the support of my family, my colleagues, but especially my best friend, who is basically my sister, who went through residency with me.
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kind of saw me becoming
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the woman that I am now.
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I couldn't have done that without her.
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And it made me think a lot about your story and just kind of that sisterhood that many of us are blessed to embrace and, you know, what that was like for you to go through that moment and have her roll up right outside and
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Grady.
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And I guess for me,
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it speaks to the importance of putting our stories out there.
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For our colleagues who both have been aware and aligned, alongside those who are really coming into this consciousness for the first time, that yes, you have to do the work of, you know, reading the books, looking at lists A through Z of how to not be racist, but
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It is worth noting that having that knowledge that is void of actual experience, it's hard to fully know what you don't know or come into this work without at least some proximity to what
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it feels like to be on the receiving end of these types of atrocities and not just the brutality that we see on screen that gets hyped up in the media, but it's the day-to-day lived experience of being black, being a person of color, being some other that, you know, doesn't
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doesn't fit with what's considered valuable or normal in our society.
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I have to say, when I first agreed to this, after talking with Emily, I had no real depth of understanding of the whole production crew behind the Nocturnist.
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