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Mikayla

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About Me

Hello all. I am Mikayla, and I am a mom, a lawyer, an activist, a bisexual, a transsexual, a gamer, and an amatuer fashionista. By day I work for the state of California as an attorney, and the rest of the time is divided between being a mom for my 6-year old son and a partner to my girlfriend Melinda. Oh, and I am the President of San Francisco Pride! I was the Chair of the Board for the Transgender Law Center, but after 2 years I have stepped down and now my friend Lisa has taken my place. So, I suppose after my job and my family, my biggest activity is - activism! My goal - equality and justice. Thats it. The same thing everybody wants here. Unfortunately people are not always treated equally here in our beautiful country, and justice is not always easy to come by - and so we must be active!

My Interests

Activism, gaming, role-play, vacations and travel, my son, my family, my girlfriend, my online friends, my artist friends, my gamer friends, my ... well, you get the picture. ;)

Music:

Sara McLaughlin, Beth Orton, Moby, most Ambient as well as House, Trance and Deep Lounge,

Movies:

Lord of the Rings trilogy (duh), Bound, Casablanca, Its a Wonderful Life, Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon, Lawrence of Arabia, Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut), Blade Runner (but NOT the director's cut!), Road Warrior, Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean and many many others - gotta luv movies!

Television:

The Wire, the Sopranos . . . and thats about it! We don't have cable, so I have to rent TV shows if I want to watch them . . . :(

Books:

Shogun (my all time fav), Lord of the Rings trilogy, Christine, 120 Days of Sodom, Homeland, The Shining . . . and I suppose some others, but ever since I became a lawyer, I just don't read for fun anymore. So sad.

Heroes:

Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Cleopatra, my grandfathers (both of whom were in WWII, one at Normandy), my god-father Buck, my mom and her best friend Eugenia, Cecilia Chung and Theresa Sparks, and of course, my Dad.