‘Grown-ish’ Tackles College Pregnancy and I Finally Feel Seen

Yara Shahidi’s show salutes young mothers who are getting degrees and dream jobs with their babies in tow

Arionne Nettles
ZORA
Published in
7 min readJan 17, 2020

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The cast of “Grown-ish” films a scene for the second season. Photo: Eric McCandless/Getty Images

OOne test didn’t feel like enough. There, standing in my tiny college bathroom, I looked down at the two lines indicating that I was pregnant, and I took a second test. Again, two more…

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Arionne Nettles
ZORA
Writer for

Arionne Nettles is a lecturer at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, a Chicago-based journalist, and a special needs mama.