Those tweets, her court papers say, include one in which she “contributed to a trending discussion on Twitter about Cardi B’s song ‘WAP’ with Megan Thee Stallion by proposing lyrics for a possible remix.”
Her suggestion – “He’s not my dad, but I call him DAD” because he’s good in bed (her wording was less polite) – was “well within the normal bounds of discussion on social media,” her complaint says.
It was the second time in a year that someone had reported Ms. 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 stating that her “conduct is a serious violation of the standards and expectations of the profession”. One of her public posts, it said, contained an image identifying her as a pharmacy student at the school; Mrs. Diei disputes that.
The letter referred her to the student handbook, which states that university staff “may occasionally monitor social networking sites and that blatant unprofessional posts may lead to disciplinary action.” But it allowed her to extrapolate what was blatant, she said.
The dean of the pharmacy canceled her eviction three weeks later, after a phone call in which, Ms. Diei said, the dean asked her to try to keep people affiliated with the school from her accounts and minimize her affiliation with the university. “It’s hard for me when I have that many followers,” she said.
Ms. Diei says she made her posts to an audience of black women like herself, and hoped she would become popular enough to make money promoting products.
“I use words and phrases that are common in our community,” she said.
Her Instagram name, kimmykasi, was supposed to be ‘cute and simple,’ she said, a compound of the diminutive for Kimberly and a word she found in an Igbo dictionary defined as ‘be the best’, as a tribute to her Nigerian immigrant father.