Author Archives: Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin

The Mitchell Year will never be what you expect it to be, so just find your people and live your life

I am amused and in awe of how quickly our worlds can change and grow and look and feel unrecognizable. In my last blog I was characterizing the tension I’d felt after a difficult adjustment to life in Belfast and … Continue reading

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Nobody Talks About Being Black in Belfast (but I will!)

As I write this, I am in my room at my Dad’s house in South Carolina. The same place I once prayed to whatever God might hear me to please let me one day be writing a blog about my … Continue reading

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Taking on the Frederick Douglass year

I turned 22 the day before I left for Belfast. Having gone to a college in the same town that I grew up in and ending undergrad tumultuously, I looked forward to my year in Belfast as a chance to … Continue reading

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