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📚+ hikes + 🧑🏻‍🍳 + gratitudes. proud immigrant 🇲🇽. building + scaling @proyectosolace and

Redwood City, CA
Joined November 2008
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
Twitter. We are officially HOMEOWNERS! A beautiful city I grew up in. A city that hosts my happiness. Full of inclusive communities and love. My Redwood City.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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These fierce women came to the US from México City to help us fight fires. Look at those red lips! ( @AOC would be proud) That collective strength. I'm here for all of it.
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laura i. gómez
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Gen Z Latinx Tik Tok is all I need on this day. 😂 Doing a "brujeria" (witchcraft) on their computers to make swing states blue. This generation is everything.
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laura i. gómez
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Adios, toxic masculinity. Hello, forehead kisses from your barber.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
3,000 National Guards in Minneapolis right now. How many were there at the Capitol on Jan 6th?
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
Coinbase is looking for a Director, Belonging Inclusion & Diversity. 🤔
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
An explanation on "no bones day". 🔮🦴🐾
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laura i. gómez
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2020 was a no bones year.
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laura i. gómez
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I am an immigrant. I learned English at a public school, got free lunches, attended a public university, received federal grants and fellowships for both of my undergraduate and graduate degrees, had Obamacare while bootstrapping my startup, and believe…in Medicare for all.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
Messy hair hiking and camping in Big Sur for the win. Oh, and... and an engagement with an ethically sourced and environmentally sustainable pink gem, of course! 💍💕
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
I can't believe this ending. It was soooo... okay. But at least now we know that Hugh Grant is able to act and play a sociopathic killer well. 😳 My favorite character was Haley though. Noma Dumezweni is an amazing actress. #TheUndoing
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laura i. gómez
3 years
Four years ago @EricaJoy and @ekp ! One of the proudest moments of my life to be on this cover alongside both of you. 💞
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laura i. gómez
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@cavemanjohn @thecathyshow @HomeDepot I go to a local hardware that used to be Orchard. Support local hardware companies or a different vendor! Home Depot CEO has made lots of donations to Trump throughout the years. Thanks for boycotting!
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
Life update! Starting in three months, I will be going back to my alma mater @UCBerkeley - to obtain my second Master's degree! This one is in public health - something I care so much about! @BerkeleyMPH Epidemiology & Biostatistics Concentration Program here I come. 💙
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
And it *appears* AZ did turned blue... To my fellow canvassers, phone bank callers and text senders- thank you for all your hard work. To Arizona, thank you. To Latinxs activists and voters in Arizona. You did it.
@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
Canvassing in 100 degree Arizona weather with a face mask AND shield is something else. This state better turn blue. #talesoffirsttimecanvasser
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laura i. gómez
4 years
Here @WSJ - I fixed it for you. “The media doesn’t understand Tejanos or Mexicans, Mexican-Americans too so we clumped them for you. They are all the same to us���
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
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Joe Biden won South Texas border counties—but just barely. Latinos, mostly lifelong Democrats, moved to President Trump in record numbers. Here's why.
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laura i. gómez
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Latinas suffer one of the widest pay gaps of any group. On Latina Equal Pay Day, I fight for change for all of us - in corporate America, those building small businesses owners to founders. May this world be just for my nieces and future fierce Latinas.
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laura i. gómez
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Graduated from @Cal two decades ago. I just enrolled for my Spring classes at @UCBerkeleySPH for the part-time program. I am not making a career change nor am I seeking validation. This is about complementing my tech experience with my passion for mental health. GO BEARS!
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laura i. gómez
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Grateful for a Latina therapist who is bilingual. Today, especially so, I needed to express myself in both of the languages - it is part of my intersectional existence. The session today allowed me to describe emotions in Spanish. Yes, sometimes I feel only in Spanish.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
For over three decades, the Bay Area has been my home. I was raised in the Peninsula, went to college in the East Bay and worked in San Francisco for many years. I now live in Redwood City again. I have never seen anything like this. 😥
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SFGATE
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Bay Area sky turns bright orange, some areas see 'snowing' ash
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laura i. gómez
3 years
“If people were dog breeds.” I have watched this 100 times already. 😂😂😂
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
Also. I never thought I'd canvass for Biden. My candidate was @JulianCastro and then I had a few other top choices. But I know what is at stake is. So does Julián and that is why he is also out there mobilizing voters. PLEASE VOTE.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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One time, when I was the founder of @GetAtipica , is a on a fireside chat with a white male CEO and founder at a very large conference. When I said that our bereavement leave included miscarriages and pregnancy losses, he was like "I never thought of that". Of course you didn't.
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laura i. gómez
4 years
Coco meeting Cosme for the first time! 😭
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laura i. gómez
3 years
Gentrification sucks. I grew up and love San Francisco Bay Area but I really hate Silicon Valley gentrification. There's a difference. Seeing homes in my neighborhood sold to outsiders...to ask me if Mexicans always play their music that loud... not knowing I am one of them.
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laura i. gómez
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A hero. After the vicious attack, she's donating almost $1M of the donations raised for her medical expenses to Asian-American organizations. A total hero.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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José my paletero is still coming around. I don’t have the heart to tell him I don’t need as many paletas given the weather but he saves my favorite ones still. Sometimes I don't have cash and he just says "la proxima Laurita!" and still gives them to me. 😭
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laura i. gómez
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@mekkaokereke I am laughing so hard while eating lunch I almost choked. 😂
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laura i. gómez
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"I’ve often find, Ellen, you’re often right and early and then pay the price for it and then don’t get the credit when it starts to change." 💯 truth from @karaswisher about @ekp .
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laura i. gómez
4 years
Seeing a diverse crowd not cheering for hate... is helping start the healing process. This is the America I love. The one I knocked doors and called people for... my adopted home as an immigrant. 🇲🇽🇺🇸
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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As of this morning, I'm fully vaccinated! Two weeks ago, I received a second dose of Pfizer. While I'm grateful, I still carry mask(s) + hand sanitizer everywhere... not much has changed. No crowds for me yet though! Maybe semi-empty museums during a weekday evening... soon.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
Well. My mom just called and told me that my aunt, uncle (in their sixties) and cousins all have COVID. My aunt is not doing well. The week of Christmas. Sigh.
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laura i. gómez
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Here you go. What you didn't know your needed this Sunday. Lambada. Cute animal style.
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laura i. gómez
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Two years ago. I had brain surgery. I didn’t know if I would survive. I’m still here so what’s up people
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laura i. gómez
3 years
I did a Día de los Muertos ofrenda inside my fireplace.
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laura i. gómez
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I’m at my mama’s and my niece just yelled “El presidente!” When Biden came on. Even a six year old knows! Call it already NV, AZ, PA, GA! Por favor.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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Before and after of our kitchen remodel. Two months and lots of love… under budget too! I am in love. 💕
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laura i. gómez
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"Trump is gone, but the systems that allowed him to be are not. Trump is gone, but what he personified remains. White supremacy, racism, transphobia, Islamophobia, ableism, misogyny... remain. Trump is gone, but unhealed wounds remain." My brilliant soul sister @mjmichellekim
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laura i. gómez
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His account is suspended. Thank you Twitter employees who signed that letter and to everyone who did put the pressure on Jack to do something. FINALLY.
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laura i. gómez
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My current therapist is going on maternity leave, so I am getting a Latina PsychD therapist for the first time in my life! Her new practice is called "Healing Corazones" and I am here for it. 💕
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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Timeline cleanse! I've been stress cooking dinner for about a week now. Here are some of my creations. I hope tonight is a celebratory dinner! 🤞🏼
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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Dear Twitter, please meet Cosme Prince! He is a good boy with a blue eye and a green one too. 🐶
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laura i. gómez
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He wanted to put in an offer on a house with no closets!
@laura
laura i. gómez
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I honestly believe home buying ends up in breakups. I've been doing this for two months and yeah. Check in on us in a week.
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laura i. gómez
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I am so done with journalists lumping South Florida Latinos (Cubans, Venezuelans) with other Latinos...I'm so over it.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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I found this picture of me when I was baby undocumented me - I wand to tell her she is worth it. 💫
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laura i. gómez
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🤔 I wonder if there were any women in tech who foresaw this and wrote an open letter to @jack about it just days ago.... I wonder... @ekp
@davidcicilline
David Cicilline
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Right now, the President's Twitter account is posting lies and misinformation at a breathtaking clip. It is a threat to our democracy and should be suspended until all the votes are counted.
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laura i. gómez
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Things I learned about Cesar Chavez in college thave have now resurfaced... a thread 🧵. 1. Filipinos helped start the original grape strike that led to the UFW yet Chavez erased them and hang out with then-dictator Ferdinand Marcos instead.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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Remember today's tragic anniversary, it's victims, and loved ones. Simultaneously holding space for Muslim communities who endured devastating Islamophobia, racism, and xenophobia. And lastly, love to all victims of ICE which was formed because of Sept 11th. May we all heal.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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I know I can hate on 2020 but here's the things I have done this year: - I learned beginner Mandarin. - I made a barn door from scratch. - I planted a lot of peppers and made salsa out of them. - I replicated @bonappetit recipes for Fourth of July. I also read over 100 books.
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laura i. gómez
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Here you go, Twitter. My comfort food. 💙
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laura i. gómez
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For lunch, I am going to eat the best meal ever. Homemade beans, queso fresco, and salsa. With flour tortillas. Thanks for coming to my Mexican food TED talk.
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laura i. gómez
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It's only 9:07 and I have already talked to several Spanish-speaking voters from Arizona and given them their nearest voting locations. 🗳️ One was undecided..but now voting for Biden! And taking her papá with her. 💕 Gave her my number to text me... every vote counts!💪🏼
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laura i. gómez
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I accidentally ordered six tacos de barbacoa (birria) at two different taquerías. I know have 12 full size tacos. We are going to eat six of them now. And I’m going to put the barbacoa leftovers in my pizza tonight. That’s all. That’s my tweet.
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laura i. gómez
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This Tik Tok! 😭
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laura i. gómez
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Thank you for magnifying our voices. As a former undocumented child, I am still healing from the wounds. For those who can vote, do it so for all for those who can't.
@LatinoUSA
Latino USA
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Today's #ElectionDay , and the fate of Americans —regardless of their legal status— is in play. Listen to Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of “The Undocumented Americans," talk about immigration and intergenerational wounds on @LatinoUSA LISTEN HERE:
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laura i. gómez
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A selfie about how I look like in quarantine and yeah, my hair isn't straight.
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laura i. gómez
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Almost two months ago. This is what @ekp and I wrote in our open letter to @jack . TWO MONTHS ago. "He claims victory and his Twitter account continues to spew treasonous lies designed to incite rebellion and overturn a democratic election."
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laura i. gómez
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This is exactly why @ekp and I have asked @jack for the suspension of Trump's account. 1.19.17: 11.1.20: 11.11.20:
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laura i. gómez
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I just convinced my paletero José to get the vaccine! He was hesitant but now he is going to take it. Now I gotta find him a site near East Palo Alto. So if anyone knows one, let me know!
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laura i. gómez
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This happened last night. Thanks abuelita for teaching me how to braid my hair so it can hold real flowers it all night long. Also, love you, @sandyparakilas .
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laura i. gómez
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Canvassing in 100 degree Arizona weather with a face mask AND shield is something else. This state better turn blue. #talesoffirsttimecanvasser
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laura i. gómez
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Me meeting at contractors for new home upgrades. "Oh, are you Latinx-owned?" "Si." "Your name is Mel's Roofing. Quien es Mel entonces?" "Soy yo. Me llamo Melquiades." "Ok. Tienes el job." It is what it is, yo.
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laura i. gómez
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"Someone is going to get killed." A Republican election official from Georgia is so over with 45's threat to democracy while inciting violence. Hear that @jack ?
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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My sister Alma voted for the first time in her life last week. Look at her smile! She said "Yo byeden for president!" 🤩
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laura i. gómez
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This morning, I went to the hardware store and two grocery stores. About 50% of people were unmasked at the "gentrifier" grocery store. 90% were masked at the Mexican store. I just... can't. Find me in the pan dulce aisle dealing with COVID anxiety as pictured below.
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laura i. gómez
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@karlitaliliana Would the Belonging part be "belong to the CEO's so-called apolitical libertarian views on being 'mission-driven?"
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laura i. gómez
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"If he [Trump] challenges the election and uses the courts for vote suppression, it will be on your hands." - @ekp A simple warning is not enough - votes are still being counted. We implore you, @jack . Suspend his account now.
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laura i. gómez
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Doing my COVID testing 10 days before going to Arizona to knock on doors for Biden, Harris and Kelly for senator! I want to make sure I am safe and protect others too.
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laura i. gómez
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"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit." - Banksy
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laura i. gómez
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Biden won Arizona. My fifth grade teacher texted me about it! I'm sooooo happy.
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laura i. gómez
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I made a video of my yard sign resistance. I even added a soundtrack!
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong."
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laura i. gómez
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For lunch, I am going to eat the best meal ever. Homemade beans, queso fresco, and salsa. With flour tortillas. Thanks for coming to my Mexican food TED talk.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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I read this article for you so you don't have to: If the current bill passes: - 25 million Medicare patients s could get coverage for hearing aids -Cap on insulin - $35/month - Expansion of home health care to 800k older and/or disabled Americans.
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laura i. gómez
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I tested negative. I know that a lot of Black and Brown families haven't and have experienced grief and loss. I will knock on each door in your honor.
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laura i. gómez
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Doing my COVID testing 10 days before going to Arizona to knock on doors for Biden, Harris and Kelly for senator! I want to make sure I am safe and protect others too.
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laura i. gómez
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I made my first tres leches cake last night! All from scratch.
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laura i. gómez
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I am engaged to an early Facebook whistleblower... I have witnessed first-hand the toll of whistleblowing and all of its heaviness: financial, emotional, psychological. Here's a link to my partner's Op-Ed from five years ago. I am so proud of him. <3
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Ellen K. Pao
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The toll of whistleblowing is huge. It's financial, emotional, psychological, professional... and heartbreaking. @chelseyglasson generously shares her experiences
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laura i. gómez
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. @ekp and I will now write open letters to social media CEOs demanding that they establish mandatory cute animal and nature content to all users. Our work is never done! 😬
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laura i. gómez
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My paletero José and I have bonded over three past few months. He always saves las paletas de pepino y chile and mango con chamoy just for me. I went overboard today. I'm not ashamed. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Moral of the story: Support your street vendors: eloteros, paleteros, fruteros and more.
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laura i. gómez
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2020 was a no bones year.
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laura i. gómez
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Adios, 45.
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laura i. gómez
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My namesake hurricane has spoken.
@nbcchicago
NBC Chicago
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Hurricane Laura Topples Confederate Statue After Vote to Keep It
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I don't have a father in my life and I'm three months away from our wedding... People ask who'll walk me down the aisle. That person is my younger sister Alma. She is everything that is great in my life so.. yay! This is us when she voted for the first time last election.
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laura i. gómez
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The biggest takeaway from this interview is the healing powers of being open about mental health and setting boundaries.
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laura i. gómez
4 years
There are things I don't tweet. My family being one of them. This deserves a spotlight though. My mama left this in my beans Tupperware. I'm not crying you're crying.
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laura i. gómez
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My heart is exploding with gratitude. Joy, purpose, love, friendship, opportunity, and health. Thank you, universe. You heard me and conspired with me to get my life to this point.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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In 2022, I am marrying the most amazing man in the world. Surrounded by people I love. I am so grateful for all of it.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
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Today is my birthday. This is a picture of my siblings and I many moons ago, when we just arrived to the United States. As a child of former farmworkers, I'm donating to @LilsG31 's fundraiser for farmworkers + their children. I hope you do the same. 💙
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laura i. gómez
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I kept this yard sign even after the elections. Today, I dedicate it to @ingridavendano @triketora @mjmichellekim and @susanabenavidez - all women who in the past week have shown me that they are my RBG friends. 💕
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laura i. gómez
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FINALLY! Noncitizens are not 👽s - although we are highly intelligent. :) Yet, we DO deserve a term that reflects our commitment and rights as humans to live here. Thank you @POTUS .
@AnaCabrera
Ana Cabrera
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NEW: President Biden wants to remove the word "alien" from US immigration laws and replace it with the word "noncitizen"
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laura i. gómez
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Some news. Tonight Lifetime will air "Women Making History" honoring Vice-President Kamala Harris, immunologist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett + Nobel Peace Prize winner Amanda Nguyen. I am in the special too. 😭 Why? I don't know but will embrace and celebrate!
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laura i. gómez
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My wedding vendors so far: -Coordinator - Uruguayan woman married to a Japanese woman. - Photographers l - ancestral sister whose roots are in Centroamerica. - Cake - Black woman from NY. - DJ: LA indigenous Wedding industry is very cis-hetero white so I'm being very intentional
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laura i. gómez
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My great great niece one day "Tia bisabuela: what did you do in 2020?" I kept writing to the CEO of Twitter to stop 45's coup with Tia Ellen"
@ekp
Ellen K. Pao
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“Yes, we know you’ve been flagging him, but flagging doesn’t help — it attracts more attention and more engagement. One flagged tweet has almost half a million likes and retweets.”  @laura and I on why Trump should be suspended from Twitter
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laura i. gómez
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I know no one can see my lipstick under the "Take Back 2020" mask but it made me feel powerful. Vamos Arizona! Let's get you voting.
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
I am happy to announce a project I have been working on - one that is dear to my heart, mind, body and soul. A place to create, participate and hold safe spaces for Latinx gente of all backgrounds. Please join me in this first phase of the project. 💕
@ProyectoSolace
Proyecto Sol
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"In its first phase, Proyecto Solace aims to provide safe spaces for Latinx peoples focused on journeys of emotional and mental wellness. Of joy and gratitude. Of support. Of mindfulness as social justice for our communities."
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laura i. gómez
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“‘It was never about saving Newsom’: how Latino voters played a major role in California It was about ensuring that this state didn’t move backward to when the state and the administration were much more xenophobic.”
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laura i. gómez
3 years
Wow. Argentine white supremacy is a whole other level.
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laura i. gómez
4 years
This.👇🏼
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
I have many thoughts. But for now, no comment. For now.
@triketora
Tracy Chou 🌻
3 years
excuse me what the fuck, how many poc and woc specifically have been working on this problem out of deep personal understanding and motivation and this is how the funding goes??
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laura i. gómez
4 years
I'm home after knocking on doors for Biden in Arizona. I have many thoughts and observations so look for a tweet thread in the future for sure. But for now I'm just gonna have a bath, paleta and a long nap. I'll leave you with this photo in the meanwhile. 🐾 🐶
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
As one of the original team members that worked in verification at Twitter, I agree with this tweet. Everyone that did that work 2008-2010 is not verified by choice, including me. Health professionals, scholars, researchers should be because of their work. Everyone else, adios
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Max Jordan Nguemeni
3 years
Random thought: Verified is the new White. It means nothing, ppl assign it value & create a sense of legitimacy. the criteria to be included keep changing. Those who feel adjacency/proximity/similarity to the already-verified wanna be included. Literally how Whiteness evolved. 1/
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@laura
laura i. gómez
3 years
I'm at a Mexican restaurant in SF Bay area and a white dude just walked in with a Tr*mp shirt. I should yell at him. Right?
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@laura
laura i. gómez
4 years
I ate my mom’s tacos fritos for dinner and registered her to vote as a thank you. Helping democracy one taco at a time.
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