Students punished for ‘vulgar’ social media posts are counterattacking

These tweets, her court documents say, include one in which she was “contributing to a discussion of trends on Twitter about Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ with Megan Thee Stallion, suggesting lyrics for a possible remix.”

Her suggestion – “He is not my father, but I call him FATHER” because he is good in bed (his words were less polite) – was “well within the normal limits of discussion on social networks”, says his complaint.

It was the second time in a year that someone reported Mrs. Diei for her social media posts; the first time, the university ordered her to write a reflection letter. This time, she received a letter on September 2 saying that her “conduct is a serious violation of the profession’s standards and expectations”. One of his public posts, he said, included an image that identified her as a pharmacy student at school; Mrs. Diei disputes this.

The letter referred to her student handbook, which says university officials “may occasionally monitor social networking sites and blatant unprofessional posts can lead to disciplinary action” But that let her extrapolate what was notorious, she said.

The dean of the pharmacy rejected her expulsion three weeks later, after a telephone conversation in which, said Diei, the dean asked her to try to block the accounts of people affiliated with the school and minimize her affiliation with the university. “It is difficult for me when I have so many followers,” she said.

Diei says she created her posts for an audience of black women like her, and hoped it would become popular enough to make money promoting products.

“I use common words and phrases in our community,” she said.

Her Instagram name, kimmykasi, was meant to be “cute and simple,” she said, a combination of Kimberly’s diminutive and a word she found in an Igbo dictionary defined as “be the best” in honor of her Nigerian immigrant father .

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