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Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
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Tech law & privacy 👩🏻‍💻 Law Fellow at @EPICprivacy 💼 Fordham law & Rice University alum 👩🏻‍🎓
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Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Next Sunu reads her first poem of the day, and makes me cry for the first time today... www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...
October on the subway, roses at my side kids being loud. One skinny girl with a cap and a pretty smile gets up to give me her seat and takes this chance to sit on her friend’s lap. I read the paper and look over at these girls. So free and easy they are laughing laughing. I look at the pink pink roses and how I say I am not a romantic and how this whole roses thing is going to ruin my reputation against romance. I watch the girls. I watch the skinny girl in boy’s clothes and pretty smile flirt with all the other girls. So free and easy they are laughing laughing. And the man next to me, he is also watching watching. And the man next to me, he leans over and says to me: Hey Miss, Hey Miss, that’s too pretty to be a boy, right? As if somehow that thought disgusts him. As if he wants some agreement about this disgust. And me I am just relieved that he knows that I am a Miss and not a pretty boy. So I just shrug and I say nothing because it is 1997 and I am still afraid. Afraid to say what does a she look like and what does a boy look like. And what does too pretty look like and what is your problem exactly. And I don’t know whether his disgust is that he thinks girls who look like boys should be beat up or boys who look like girls should be beat up because, in fact, we know, they both are. I only know that I was relieved that he did not know my pink pink roses were for a girl and somehow I have this safety of passing and I think to myself: You all sitting there laughing laughing sitting there on your sixth grade girlfriend’s lap so free and easy, laughing laughing, be safe my handsome girls, be safe my pretty boys.
November 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM