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Simply Put
by Ashes
Social issues, tough conversations, what’s going on in the going ons
Episodes
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“When they came for you I was silent”
Let’s go back to basics a little
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Happy Spring
Just a “phone call” checking in and talking about expanding our family, becoming a sports mom and a reminder that things are still going on in the world even if I’m not the one to listen to speak on them. Go find the people.
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The nuance is not ours to claim
Plenty of quality issues and lots of appearances from little man but I was sent an email and it was a great question so there’s no time like the present to respond
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Racism and privilege are bullseyes not plotpoints
wizard_bizan1 is the account I reference specifically. Also important is adnan.barq, eye.on.Palestine, Antony Loewenstein, the book “The Palestine Laboratory”, and reading about the Israel National Skin Bank. There’s a national institute of health paper on it from 2000 that’s a great place to start
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Is it over?
Ashes to ashes may be a thing a little sooner than we all planned.
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Parenting 2/2: Finding out we were wrong and adjusting accordingly
Let’s talk about school and how what we think is best may not be what’s actually best. I took the conversations published with Mel from 2021 and used those (as well as lots of support from her and other education friends I have) to find a school that we were comfortable with and a school that...
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Ash Responds to Comments: Parenting Style
This episode was recorded June 13th but since my daughter just started kinder that means we’ve been having this discussion quite often so there will be a follow up conversation posted this week to talk about the process of choosing a school for her and why we chose what we did for our tiny mixed kid
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Pop culture happenings (the rambly bits)
After 12 requests, 3 weeks, 2 new things, and 42 (now) drafts this is the best I’ve got—It wasn’t long after *that song* came out that people were asking me what I had to say about it and I was so fixated on finding something to say about it that was worth talking about here that I spent many...
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The Mom Saga: The Final (?) Chapter
Is it too good to be true?
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Have Coffee w Me Part Three: TANF & Cash Assistance
We went from the least stigmatized form of social service to one of the most stigmatized forms and if you don’t think this is what it’s like to actually sit across from me and have coffee (GFuel) while talking about something I feel passionate about you’d be wrong. Both programs require families…
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The Mom Saga Part Two: Teaming up with the Insurance Company
The day I figured out that it didn’t have to be me against the world was a day my entire advocacy journey changed. I always knew that I had friends, family, acquaintances, and a network of advocacy-focused alums at my back but it never occurred to me to ask an insurance company for help. Which is...
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Whistle While You Work Part One: Let’s Talk About Dogwhistles
Being a member of or ally for marginalized communities requires you to be aware of your surroundings a bit differently.
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Let’s Have Coffee Part Two: Documentation
Come and have coffee with me and let’s chat about the ins and outs of navigating social services. One of the ways I’ve kept busy during my time off is by being there for my friends. While I’ll never be the one who has a bunch of extra money, I’ll always be the one willing to bring some coffee and...
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The Mom Saga Part One: My Biggest Win
As of early May 2023 this is the biggest advocacy win with my mom. While this is a retelling of what happened, at the end, it goes over the importance of knowing the ins and outs of patient history in order to push where you can. Often the most powerful way to advocate in these (most) scenarios…
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Ash Responds to Shitty Comments Part One of?
Criticism? Totally fine. Invalidating other people’s difficult season because, in your eyes, your life is more difficult is a garbage take. Me being open about the difficult season I’m in while being pulled 750 different ways is not invalidating you struggling with work/life balance. It’s also…
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Have Coffee with Me: This Was Supposed to be About Divorce
What started out as a day full of errands became a day full of losses and disappointment pretty quickly. It took me no less than 7 takes to even get something that didn’t involve some sort of unexpected interruption but that’s life. Let’s talk about that and some more content changes over my...
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Hey, it’s me!
It’s been a long time. Here’s a bit of where I’ve been, some more intricate explanations as to why I took time away, and a bit of where this is going in the future.
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Emotional Laboring and Teachable Moments with Elizabeth Ortiz
I spend a lot of time encouraging people to ask questions but sometimes I’m not always the right person to answer. Here Liz and I sit down to answer one subscribers questions. This, as well as the previous episode, has been publish with the consent of the person involved as a way to make a...
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I get knocked down and…
I get knocked down and I get knocked down and I get up agaknocked down. I’m down for a small count. Probably. Maybe. Because I’m human
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How I ended up in a sundown town
Disclaimer: it is my responsibility to make sure the places I go are safe for myself and my family however there are plenty of times where “allies” could have stepped in and prevented it from happening
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Nice v. Kind so 1/🤷🏽♀️
Just me this time. Intro to being nice v kind. Article mentioned in recording from Blackburncenter(dot)org https://www.blackburncenter.org/amp/nice-vs-kind-why-does-it-matter
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“I couldn’t find anything that looked like her—“
“—so I went to another store”
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White passing. What I mean vs what you may think I mean
Let’s get on the same page! Totally my fault that I went so long without clarifying, I didn’t understand what I wasn’t being clear about before. Also, a personal update at the end.
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Sometimes we fail
More racism in medicine
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Rxn RvW
Mel is back to react to the overturning of RvW. We talk about proper ways to protest, safety looking different for everyone, and the disappointment we feel in those who continue to allow this to happen and the fear we have with how far it will go before it finally stops
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Networking is exponential
Today we have Iconaklast back to talk about the importance of networking and ways to overcome some of the more common reasons people say they struggle with networking. Meanwhile, I’m using it as an opportunity to manipulate a situation to promote self-reflection and progress (for educational...
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You’re not Katniss
If you’ve managed to diversify your internet algorithms, none of this should be new information but not everyone has done that. Here’s a perspective you’ve missed if you’re only seeing various shades of peach represented in your media.
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Let’s talk about medical biases: melanin and veins
CW: medical trauma, pregnancy loss, from that time I almost died to the other time I almost died. Visiting the time my daughter was convinced I was having twins along the way.
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“People” is a subjective term with Guest Host-Oak Ringhouse [1/2]
Everyone draws the line somewhere when talking about who they classify as people. Some people’s line stops when we get to animals and some people’s stops well before then. Check out Patreon.com/simplyashes for more
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Individuality is a privilege
Special guest: Jordan Breckenridge. *at one point I mention I’m having a Labor Day baby and 100% meant Memorial Day
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It’s about so much more than abortions
Roe v Wade will be overturned but how does the wording of the draft impact other cases? Let’s talk about that, what things are considered medical abortions that some people don’t know, and where we can go from here. Look back through past podcasts where I talk about Roe v. Wade, the Hyde…
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Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss
The time I finally responded to an Usborne party invitation and why the copy/paste message was the equivalent of them putting a foot in their mouth.
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The damage of interracial friendships
The reservations I have posting this unedited (or at all) are high but it’s been over a year since reading the article and it’s not getting any easier to talk about. Interracial friendships are hard. They just are and if you think they aren’t you’re likely dismissing how much the other person has...
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The importance of recognizing nuance & intersectionality in social media discourse
At the end of the day, I don’t care about any of these people but the discourse surrounding the issues in mostly white spaces create a streamline from white women tears to white supremancy in one situation and blame Black women for disagreements between Black men in another. For one set of people...
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Hometown Fun Part 1/2
[recorded pre-Christmas 2021] this time Alesha and I primarily talk about the small town dynamics of where we grew up. As time goes on we move toward how it molded us all to be who we are today and it goes from laughing and joking to a more serious conversation about religion, marriage, and love...
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Tax time: What that means for victims
For some, tax time means escape.
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Librarians make the world go round
Today we’re expanding a bit on the conversations surrounding space documents and the 1870s brick wall with an insurance librarian! If you want to know why that makes sense, want to see the sources used in the discussion, and/or want to support a Black creator during Black History Month, head on...
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The definition of “safety” changes when raising multi-racial children with Guest Host Cathy Bradley
Today I’m challenging Cathy to sit in her discomfort as I sit in a bit of my own while I push back against the idea that she can protect her child from experiencing racism by calling it an “adult” issue and we hear her come to an awkward realization that she cannot continue the privilege of…
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Culturally competent education and socially aware parenting with Melissa Taylor [1/2]
Melissa currently works as a teacher in a dual language, fairly affluent school district in Washington and has been an advocate for diversity and equity surrounding marginalized communities within her school district. Today we’re talking about the model-minority myth, cultural differences in...
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Until Next Year!
From my family to yours 🤍
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Teaching literature responsibly: Guest Host Professor Jordan Breckenridge [Part 2/2]
We’re hopping back where we left off last month with the second half of Jordan’s recording only this time we change gears from speaking about Brown v Board to talking about professors obligations to their students while teaching the tougher bits of the classics. We talk about the importance of...
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He was watching me die
CW: Medical Trauma, mention of miscarriage
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Brown v. Board-at what cost part 1
@/drcrim3 Tiktok mentioned: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2mogTM/
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Are we surprised
Let’s talk about the last half hour or so.
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You asked, I answered
For the longest there’s been one question in my inbox that I’ve avoided, “who are you outside of all this” and I finally got to a point where I know myself enough to answer. It may not be the answer people are hoping for but, in this season, it’s who I am.
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With death comes safety
How a phone call allowed me to unclench my jaw and take a deep breath for the first time in over a decade.
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Inconvenient and frustrating or unsafe and dangerous
Link to gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-raise-burial-and-memorial-funds?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
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Planned Parenthood’s Dark Roots
BUCK v. BELL, Superintendent of State Colony Epileptics and Feeble Minded. | Supreme Court | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu) Buck v. Bell (1927) | The Embryo Project Encyclopedia (asu.edu) The History & Impact of Planned Parenthood Immigration Reform...
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When men are loud and wrong, we correct them.
How one man picked the wrong bitch at the wrong time: Planned Parenthood edition.
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Guest host:ICONA 2/2
We re-recorded the first one when we thought all was lost but since this covers some of the same things in a different way, I wanted to include this as well.
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