Author Archives: Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin

So, this is the end?

Only 66 days left on the island and the coursework is finished (will my essays ever be marked?), my internship is over (over 1,000 objects were sorted and listed in the Lynda Walker archive at the Linen Hall Library by … Continue reading

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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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