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Unspoken Languages We Don’t Talk About
From a look in the eyes, tone of voice, posture, or gesture, some of us know what’s really being said
Even though political science was one of my core majors for my degree in social science, I had never cared much for in-depth political discussion until the fall of 2016.
Like many others, my thoughts and feelings on politics ramped up when Trump became president despite his infamous comment about grabbing women by their most private part.
I wanted to vomit the morning I found out that he won.
It is part of the reason I left the United States in 2020.
The Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson filled me with all kinds of mixed emotions, from pride to anger, to joy and sadness.
It was a ridiculous spectacle.
My favorite moment, aside from her actual confirmation, was when Senator Corey Booker spoke:
“You got here how every Black woman in America who’s gotten anywhere has done, by being like Ginger Rogers: ‘I did everything Fred Astaire did but backward, in heels,’” Booker said.
“It’s hard for me not to look at you and not see my mom, not to see…
