You’ve Got Asha!

The short of it:

You’ve Got Asha is my personal newsletter-meets-blog which follows monthly-ish coming-of-age musings from me inspired by the Live-Journal era that I just barely missed as a Gen-Z born at the end of 2000.

The long of it (aka. why a newsletter?):

This newsletter was born out of an intention to stop doom-scrolling and find alternative ways of sharing/connecting with others outside of traditional social media platforms. As more of my friends go through waves of being present on social media or move away from it entirely, I am growing more curious about the roles personal blogs can play as we seek more intentional and genuine ways of connecting with each other on the internet.

Even in today’s attention economy, I believe there’s power in long-form writing, and I’ve always loved the tension between intimacy and accessibility that personal blogs play with. Newsletters are a genre in and of itself, and everyone seems to do them differently, so I’m just playing with it as I carve out a space for my thoughts to linger on the internet in a more intentional way than snappy captions on Instagram or truncated and threaded together in a Twitter thread.

There’s no way I’ll be as funny as R. Eric Thomas in his Here For It newsletter, and I can’t promise perfectly curated emails about a very niche interest of mine (though if I had to choose, it would probably be about cycling through hobbies in your twenties.) But in my newsletter-meets-blog, you can expect personal updates about my life, ruminations on coming of age, and many things in between.

About Me

Asha Marie (she/her/hers) is a 20something living in St. Louis, MO where she’s working towards a PhD in Sociology. She spent 2023 studying Public History in Belfast, Northern Ireland as a George J. Mitchell Scholar. When she’s not stirring up good trouble, she’s dipping her toes into as many hobbies as possible and probably outside.