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Originally from Needham, Massachusetts, Matsumiya attended the Commonwealth School in Boston for high school. After high school, she attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where she left in 2000 to pursue music
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She has also performed on albums with Daughters and Ghastly City Sleep. In 2015, her chronicling the inappropriate messages that she had received on social media during the past ten years received international attention. Standing at 4"9" (145 cm), Matsumiya would often hide in band lockers in middle school and in newspaper racks in later years.
Matsumiya made her debut on Kayo Dot"s 2003 album Choirs of the Eye, as well as their discography for the next ten years.
She later appeared on Gregor Samsa"s album Rest, and an album with Tartar Lamb. In 2009, she also appeared on Maudlin of the Well"s Participant the Second.
In 2015, Matsumiya created the called "Perv_magnet", where she uploaded creepy messages that she had received from men over the past ten years. According to Matsumiya, the project was created to highlight the harassment and sexism that women face online, as well as the racism she faced.
However, she received a small amount of criticism from people who claimed that she uploaded the examples as compliments, an accusation which she denied.
In a 2014 interview with Bearded Gentlemen Music, her former Kayo Dot bandmember Toby Driver alluded to stalkers that she faced.
