For those of you who have not experienced being marginalized in some way, this is my best analogy: I have a bullseye on my back that I can’t see that says: harass me, make unsolicited comments about my appearance, insult me to make yourself feel better. In the current political regime and during COVID, it’s become worse because the president is literally encouraging you to do it and he’s doing it too. And it’s a constantly shifting sign that I have to track where sometimes I’m a model minority and sometimes I caused the kung flu. Sometimes, I’m a shining example of how women can make it in tech and sometimes I’m a reminder that you aren’t as successful as a girl. It’s not logical and it makes no sense to me either. I wish I could see what the sign said every day when I go out but I can’t so I just have to be scared that anything might happen.