Like many others, Allure has spent the pandemic looking inward.
First, I should really thank TikTok.
Growing up, I walked through the world with incredible ease a white Midwestern student with tremendous privilege.
I was allowed to question authority and deemed plucky.
I was able to swap stories and compare experiences with every white student surrounding me for reassurance and encouragement.
But you had the exact opposite when you stood up for yourself, you were labeled difficult and obstinate.
Your experience was different.
Even as a five-year-old, your first-grade teacher assumed your perfect spelling-test score was the result of cheating.
You could have easily been discouraged.
And yet, you carried on with your head held high and dreams as grand as your heart.
You worked your way from RN to an advanced practice nurse, the only Black nurse in your class.
That wasnt unusual to you though.
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Instead, youve used your position to advocate for those without a voice.
As a nurse anesthetist, youre the one who administers epidurals during labor.
When you introduced yourself and explained you were there to listen and keep her safe, she instantaneously calmed.
Thank you, Dr. Aisha, for being you.
You cant be defined by a single sentence and that has inspired me in my own life.
